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Insurance for commercial property managers (ARCHIVED)
This document has been archived and is available on isurv for information purposes only.
This guidance note was designed to outline best practice for property professionals dealing with insurances for commercial property owners.
Since this guidance was published, the former FSA has become two separate regulatory authorities, the FCA and the PRA. -
The role of Cloud computing in commercial property (RICS)
Published February 2011
What is Cloud computing? And why is it relevant to real estate? The focus of this paper is on using the Cloud to enable more efficient working practices, flexibly and cheaply. It describes what the Cloud is, and gives examples of how it is relevant within the property industry. -
Commercial property management in England and Wales
Published: October 2011
Effective from: October 2011
Management is about achieving defined objectives that should be agreed with the client at the outset of each instruction, particularly the provision of quality services which are value for money.
This guidance note is principally concerned with how the person(s) in control of a building should act and, in particular, how they manage, communicate and control income and expenditure while minimising the various associated risks. Managers should at all times seek to comply with the principles set out in this guidance note.
While this guidance note refers principally to the management of multi-let properties, the principles can be applied to the management of all types of commercial property. -
Facilities management information and data management (ARCHIVED)
This document has been archived and is available on isurv for information purposes only.
Facilities management organisations recognise the value that management information can bring to the effectiveness of their businesses.
Written for those operating at both the operational and strategic level of facilities management, this information paper aims to provide an outline to help client side facilities management organisations to generate, analyse, use and report on management information to the benefit of the host organisation. -
Building performance evaluation in higher education properties: a Facilities Management approach (RICS)
Published December 2000
This research presents the findings of the characteristics of important aspects of a performance evaluation approach related to higher education properties, and discusses the framework developed based on the Balanced Scorecard methodology to measure performance. -
Resource management: improving efficiency and reducing waste
Published June 2016
Effective from June 2016
Reissued April 2023
This document provides guidance for property professionals on how to make more efficient and effective use of buildings and their support services; manage resources more effectively and reduce waste.
In the context of property and facilities management, resource should be considered as anything that is used in the provision of buildings and their support services, including:
- people
- natural resources and
- energy.
This document was reissued in April 2023 as a professional standard. It had previously been published in June 2016 as a guidance note. No material changes have been made to the document.