Normah Sabar, Malaysia's first female surveyor, passed away at 72. Her organs and tissues were donated to five people, fulfilling her pledge to serve even in death. Hospital Sungai Buloh honored her with a "walk of honour" before the donation procedure.
Steven Mattaboni, 38, a surveyor and father of two, has been identified as the victim of a fatal shark attack at Rottnest Island, Western Australia. He was attacked near Horseshoe Reef on Saturday morning and later pronounced dead. A 5-meter white shark was spotted nearby.
Steven Mattaboni, 38, a surveyor and father of two, has died following a shark attack at Rottnest Island, Western Australia. He was bitten at Horseshoe Reef on Saturday morning and later pronounced dead despite the efforts of paramedics and emergency services.
The UK housing market is experiencing a slowdown due to concerns over rising inflation and mortgage rates linked to the Middle East conflict, with reduced buyer inquiries, slower sales, and price sensitivity, according to the RICS survey.
Bhuri Tori, a forgotten scientific outpost near Sironj, once served as the geodetic heart of undivided India. British surveyors used this ridge for the Great Trigonometrical Survey, fixing coordinates and calculating distances that helped measure Mount Everest. Today, this historically significant site lies neglected, with its structures vandalized and stones stolen.
A Hong Kong building inspector mistook illegal alterations to emergency staircases at a housing estate ravaged in a deadly fire as protective measures for “broken” windows, because he based his assessment solely on documents and did not carry out a site visit, a public inquiry has heard. Senior maintenance surveyor Nick Yung Siu-lun, the head of the minor works team of the Housing Bureau’s independent checking unit, said on Thursday he thought the wooden boards used to cover the temporary...
Government inspectors did not foresee engineering firms colluding to deceive authorities over the use of substandard renovation materials at a Hong Kong residential estate devastated in the city’s deadliest fire in decades, a public inquiry has heard. Andy Ku Siu-ping, a senior maintenance surveyor of the Housing Bureau’s Independent Checking Unit, on Wednesday blamed “systemic defects” for the body’s failure to rectify the use of flammable polyfoam boards and scaffolding mesh during a HK$336...
This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing. All eyes are on the Housing Bureau’s Independent Checking Unit (ICU), whose officers are scheduled to testify before a judge-led panel on Wednesday about their role in Hong Kong’s Tai Po blaze. Senior maintenance surveyor Andy Ku Siu-ping will be the only witness giving live evidence in the first of three sessions of the fourth round of evidential...
Renewable planning body VicGrid has threatened a high-profile anti-transmission-line campaigner with enforcement action after government surveyors felt "hindered" from accessing his farm.
Government surveyors failed to detect major fire risks at a housing complex destroyed in Hong Kong’s deadliest inferno in decades because they were following outdated guidelines that did not require in-person inspections of renovation works, a public inquiry has heard. The independent committee was told on Monday that illegal alterations to Wang Fuk Court’s emergency passages during the HK$336 million (US$42.9 million) overhaul of the estate’s exterior could have been discovered sooner had...
