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Building climate resilience

This new section explores some of the key areas of resilience, and relates these to debates on sustainability and climate change.

Updates

Commissioning environmental assessments

Updates to this section include more detail on environmental impact assessments, flood risk and biodiversity net gain.

Flood risk

The updated section includes more detail on property flood resilience (PFR) measures, and relates reporting requirements to the current edition of the RICS Home survey standard.

ISO 50001 and energy management

This section has been updated to reflect new government initiatives, especially regarding streamlined energy and carbon reporting.

Consultation drafts

See iConsult to review the latest RICS standards and guidance drafts.