Fear shortfall of surveyors will impact Ireland's housing and construction output

Room at the table for 1,100 more surveyors by 2026, the mammoth 'Burlo' gathering of 1,300 SCSI diners hears

Food for thought: some of the 1,300 members and guests attending the SCSI Annual Dinner at the Clayton Burlington Hotel. The survveying professional  body forecasts a shortage of 1,100  surveyors by 2026.

THE expected shortfall of surveyors for the property, construction and estate agency professions could have been graphically illustrated at last week’s packed-out, knees-up annual dinner of 1,300 members and guests of the Society of Chartered Surveyors at the Dublin Burlington Hotel.

The enormous attendance at the black tie gig -  traditionally the largest social/profession gathering in the country - closely parallels the expected personnel shortage in the construction sector’s surveying professions: it’s put at 1,100 or more, by 2026.