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Name: William Patrick Prendergast

Phone Number: 3838
Room Number: 337.1

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Academic and Professional Qualifications: / BSc. (Hons) Geology (major) and Mathematics (minor), NUIG - 1978
Post-Graduate Diploma in Surveying, 69 Army Survey Course, Royal Engineers, Newbury, UK - 1983
PhD Trinity College Dublin - 2005 - “Managing Ireland’s Visual Amenity: An Evaluation of Visual Impact Assessment Practice and Local Authority Management Policies for the Visual Amenity in Ireland”
Fellow of the Irish Institution of Surveyors
Biography: / Lecturer in the Department of Spatial Information Sciences in the Dublin Institute of Technology since 1995 and previously employed for 15 years on the senior management team of Ordnance Survey Ireland whilst serving as an officer in the Irish Defence Forces. He has served on the council of the Irish Institution of Surveyors (IIS) since 1992 and as the IIS President from 2000 to 2002. He also served as the IIS representative on the Council of European Geodetic Surveyors (CLGE) and as the CLGE President from 1998 to 2001. He has been the chair of the IIS Commission on Land Registration since 2006 and the chair of the Inter-Professional Task Force on Property Boundaries since 2009.
Teaching Areas: / Geo-Spatial Awareness
Land Management
Spatial Data Infra-structures
Spatial Data Quality
Research Interests: / Boundary surveying, mapping and registration
Education for Geomatics/Geodetic Surveying

Research Supervision

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Principal Supervisor to Daragh O’Brien, DIT PhD student, “To Quantify the Incidence and Identify the Types of Boundary Disputes in Ireland”

Assistant Supervisor to Sajjad Sajjadi, UCL PhD student,
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Selected Publications: /

Journal Articles

Prendergast, W.P. and Rybaczuk, K. (2004) Visual Impact Assessment: A Neglected Component of Environmental Impact Statements in Ireland? Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 47 (5):667-684.

Edited Books

Prendergast, W.P., Flynn, M., Corrigan, P., Sweeny, B., Martin, A. And Moran, P. (2008) Green Paper Proposing Reform of Boundary Surveys in Ireland, the Irish Institution of Surveyors, Dublin, Ireland, p 1-109
Prendergast, W.P., Corrigan, P., Scully, P., Shackleton, C. and Sweeney, B. (2004) Best Practice Guidelines for Precise Surveying in Ireland. the Irish Institution of Surveyors, Dublin, Ireland, p 1-76

Book Chapters

Other Publications

Monaghan, E., Dunne, T. and Prendergast, W.P. 2010, Land Valuation Taxation in Ireland: Information Implementation Issues, Dublin Institute of Technology, p46
Commission on Land Registration 2010, Discussion Paper on Registering Boundaries as Conclusive, the Irish Institution of Surveyors, Dublin p8
Commission on Land Registration, 2010, The Technical Case for Adopting a Defined Boundary System, the Irish Institution of Surveyors, Dublin, p7
Commission on Land Registration Working Party 1 Interim Report, 2007, The Property Registration Authority’s Digital Mapping Project: A Surveyor’s Perspective, the Irish Institution of Surveyors, Dublin, p22

Conference Papers

Prendergast, W.P., Flynn, M., Corrigan, P., Sweeny, B., Martin, A. and Moran, P. 2009, Progress Report on the Green Paper Proposing Reform of Boundary Surveys in Ireland, CLGE Conference on the Boundary, Bergen, Norway and published in KART OG PLAN, Vol. 69, pp. 1–11. P.O.B. 5003, NO-1432 Ås, ISSN 0047-3278

Behan, A., O’Connor, D., Prendergast, W.P. and Skehan, C. 2009, Evaluating the Role of an Intensive Induction Project in Enhancing the First Year Experience,

Prendergast, F, Prendergast, WP, Behan, A & Murray, H 2008, Enhancing Educational Programmes for Geomatics in Ireland, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Warsaw University of Technology, 30 November - 1 December 2007, 978-84-8363-226-0

Prendergast, F.T., Prendergast, W.P., Behan, A. and Murray, H., 2007, Enhancing Educational Programmes for Geomatics in Ireland, Proceedings of the 2007 International Congress on Geomatics Education in Europe, (Editors Ruiz Fernandez L.A. & Chmiel J), Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain, pp 51-63.

Prendergast, W.P., Prendergast, F.T. and Behan, A. 2006, The Development of the Educational System for Geodetic Surveyors in Ireland. Proceedings of the 23rd International FIG Congress, 8-13 October, Munich, Germany, p19

Purcell, S., Murray, H and Prendergast W.P. (2006) Three Dimensional Registrations of Multi-storey Developments, Newsletter of the Irish Institution of Surveyors, Vol, Dublin, Ireland p13

Prendergast, W.P. 2005, The Future of the Surveying Profession. Proceedings of the 1st International Trade Fair of Geodesy and Cartography, 14-16 March, Prague, Czech Republic, p9

Prendergast, W.P. and Rybaczuk, K. 2005, Using Visualisation Techniques in Planning to Improve Collaborative Governance in Ireland, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Urban Planning and Spatial Development and Impacts of ICT on Physical Space, Vienna, CORP Geo-Multimedia:235-243.

Prendergast, P. 2004, The Impact of Ireland’s 21st Century Surveying Infrastructure on current surveying practice. DIT and IIS joint CPD seminar, Dublin
Prendergast, P. 2004, Recommendations for Surveyors: Best Practice Guidelines for Precise Surveying in Ireland. Survey Ireland, Malahide
Prendergast, P. 2004, Ireland’s Surveying Infrastructure for the 21st Century. FIG Working Week, Athens