BDVI - An innovative professional body
Who are we?
The Association of Publicly Appointed Surveyors (BDVI) is the professional group of the publicly appointed surveyors in Germany. As an economic and professional association the BDVI represents the interests of its approximately 1,300 members within the association as well as towards the political, economic and administrative sector.
The priority of the association’s work is on the one hand to strengthen the individual professional as part of the public surveying system and on the other hand to underline the general interest in the appointed liberal professionals helping to establish the profession.
The Association of Publicly Appointed Surveyors follows the tradition which has been kept for more than one hundred years by the body representing the interests of freelance surveyors in Germany. The association has developed to one of the most important associations in the surveying sector over decades determined and challenged by the reconstruction and reunification of Germany. Nowadays the BDVI considers it as its main responsibility to lead the profession into the European future representing a model for public services provided by liberal professionals.
What aims do we have?
- a positive organisation of legal, economic and political conditions for publicly appointed surveyors
- creation of entrepreneurial spaces for medium-sized enterprises and freelancers
- shift of surveying services from public administrations to publicly appointed surveyors
- cost transparency and inspection of surveying standards
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promotion of performance-related competition between public administrations and liberal professionals
How do we achieve these aims?
- embodiment of the activities of publicly appointed surveyors in laws, decrees, regulations and directives
- introduction of surveying standards into the process of building
- development of proposals for deregulation and shift of sovereign responsibilities to appointed entrepreneurs
- cooperation with national and European institutions of the liberal professions
