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  • The future of Private Finance Initiative and Public Private Partnership (RICS)

    Published June 2011

    This report presents a timely and credible evidence base to enable RICS to inform and guide members and other key stakeholder groupings on the challenges and opportunities afforded by PPPs.

    More than 40 countries have implemented the PPP model across a diverse range of infrastructural provision and service delivery arrangements.

    The key findings from the report are presented under a series of thematic headings and reflect the views and experiences of a diverse range of stakeholder groupings across 5 key PPP markets: Australia, Canada, India, the UK and the US.

  • Capital allowances and land remediation relief (ARCHIVED)

    This document has been archived and is available on isurv for information purposes only.

    This first edition guidance note introduces surveyors and other professionals to the subjects of capital allowances and land remediation relief in a UK context.

    This is part of the RICS QS and Construction Standards.

    Please be aware that this guidance note contains some material which is in the process of being updated for revisions to the CDM Regulations, RIBA Plan of Work, and updates to the JCT, NEC and FIDIC suites. Members are made aware of these impending revisions in order that they first check the most up to date position before electing to act in accordance with this guidance document.

  • The global infrastructure challenge: the role of PPP in a new financial and economic paradigm (RICS)

    Published October 2013

    The infrastructure investment challenge has commanded increasing levels of attention among national governments in recent years. The Public Private Partnership (PPP) model in response to the infrastructure investment challenge has been adopted in more than 40 countries around the world amid budgetary constraints and in the absence of a ‘viable alternative’.

    This research provides an updated position on the global PPP market and the role PPP could occupy in redressing the global infrastructure investment gap.

    RICS research content is available to everyone, free of charge on the RICS website. Non-members will need to register. RICS members and registered non-members will need to login to see the particular research items. See also the full list of RICS research held on rics.org

  • Lender's independent monitoring surveyor

    Published March 2015

    This guidance note has been developed to support the work of chartered surveyors who assess risks and provide technical advice to those who provide third-party finance on real estate developments: a lender’s independent monitoring surveyor.

    This guidance note covers:
    - project structure
    - conflicts of interest
    - technical due diligence
    - financial close/contract completion
    - practical completion and
    - risk analysis.

  • Commercial management of construction

    Published: March 2016
    Effective from: 21 June 2016

    The role of a commercial manager, and the commercial management functions performed, play a critical part in the commercial and financial success of a construction project or of any other business.

    This UK guidance note outlines the role of commercial management in construction, providing a framework of guidance covering the most common tasks that a commercial manager will perform on a construction project.

    This 1st edition guidance note is effective from 21 June 2016.

    This is part of the RICS QS and Construction Standards.

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