COBRA 2011: RICS International Research Conference September 11, 2011

COBRA is the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors' (RICS) international research conference. It was first held in 1995 and has taken place annually since then, at a variety of locations around the globe - most recently in London (2006), Atlanta (2007), Dublin (2008), Cape Town (2009) and Paris (2010). COBRA next meets in Salford, UK on 12 and 13 September 2011.

The conference caters for all aspects of the research and academic base of the chartered surveying profession and provides an important forum for educators, researchers and practitioners to meet, and to discuss the latest research developments in the field. The conference also hosts the annual RICS Legal Research Symposium and the inaugural meeting of the Law Postgraduate Research Forum (CIB W113 Student Chapter), organised in partnership with CIB Working Commission W113, and features special conference streams in knowledge management and biodiversity and the built environment.

Papers are therefore invited in all subject-areas related to the practice of surveying and its wider built, social, legal and commercial contexts, including:

* The management of the construction process
* Real estate
* Land and resource management
* The professional environment
* Law and the legal context
* Biodiversity and the built environment
* Knowledge management in construction and property organisations

Key dates

* Abstracts - Friday 25th February 2011
* Acceptance of abstracts - Friday 11th March 2011
* Full papers - Friday 3rd June 2011
* Acceptance of papers - Friday 1st July 2011
* Camera-ready copy of papers - Friday 29th July 2011

Official Website: http://www.salford.ac.uk/events/details/1391