Features
Owning and managing commercial property
A
- Accessibility: European focus
- Accessibility: impact of Part M
- Accessibility: welcoming everyone
- Accessibility and building control: UK and Australia
- Affordable and sustainable housing
- Affordable housing: Malaysia
- Alternative dispute resolution: dilapidations
- An efficient workspace: air and heat
- APC competencies: sustainability
- Asbestos: management in schools
- Assessing building services: solar energy
- Asset management: embedding aspirations
- Asset management: reaping the benefits
B
- Big data: digitally representing the physical landscape
- BIM: building surveying
- BIM and commercial property: opportunities for property professionals
- BIM in office buildings: progress and development
- Biomass fuels: sustainable power
- Blockchain and proptech: wider implementation
- Break clauses: compliance with repairing and other obligations
- British homes: new energy efficiency standards
- Building control: accessibility and Part M
- Building control: football stadium
- Building control: Library of Birmingham
- Building control: Wheelchair-accessible homes
- Building control: Wimbledon
- Building control in Australia: energy performance
- Building defects: charges
- Building defects and responsibility: Scottish schools
- Building pathology: falling debris
- Building pathology: insulating and reflective coatings
- Building surveying: dilapidations
- Building surveying: leading technical investment strategies
- Building surveying: planned maintenance
- Built environment: aiming higher
- Built environment: energy performance improvements
- Business branding: how to achieve success
- Business Improvement Districts: how they work
C
- Carbon compliance: zero-carbon homes
- Carbon footprinting: commercial property
- Carbon reduction: investment returns
- Change management: safeguarding the future of our planet
- Churches: carbon reduction targets
- Churches: solar panels
- Circular economy: role of facilities manager
- Climate change: challenges facing built environment professionals
- Commercial: BIDs in Scotland
- Commercial energy ratings: technical review
- Commercial EPCs: improving a building's energy rating
- Commercial landlord and tenant: remedial work to a property during a lease
- Commercial leases and dilapidations: sustainable approach
- Commercial property: accounting terms
- Commercial property: customer service
- Commercial property: dealing with rough sleepers
- Commercial property: security
- Commercial property: technology trend
- Commercial property law FAQs: Jervis v Harris clause, keys, liquidation
- Commercial property management: health and wellbeing
- Commercial property managers: sustainable requirements
- Commercial property solar power: simplifying the process
- Commercial sustainability: green bonds
- Commercial sustainability: retail sector
- Company voluntary agreements: profit and loss
- Connectivity: importance of sustainable digital infrastructure
- Conservation v commercial interests
- Construction: carbon footprint
- Construction: communication
- Construction: offsite housing
- Construction: risk management
- Contesting lease renewals: when would a surveyor be involved?
- Contingency fees: understanding the implications
- Coral: a natural approach
- Corporate manslaughter: first case
- Corporate real estate (CRE)
- Cyber security: protecting connected buildings
D
- Data strategy: understanding infratech
- Defects: cladding systems
- Development proposals: sustainable growth
- Dilapidations: 2017 landmark case
- Dilapidations: advising on legal matters
- Dilapidations: alternative way of resolving disputes
- Dilapidations: a Scottish perspective
- Dilapidations: calculating claims
- Dilapidations: costs
- Dilapidations: dilapidations claims
- Dilapidations: disputes
- Dilapidations: exaggeration of a claim
- Dilapidations: increasing claims
- Dilapidations: legal responsibilities for repairs
- Dilapidations: mechanical and electrical specialists
- Dilapidations: negotiation advice
- Dilapidations: quantifying loss
- Dilapidations: R22 gas restrictions
- Dilapidations: recent case summaries
- Dilapidations: recent rulings
- Dilapidations: residential rulings
- Dilapidations: resolving disputes quickly
- Dilapidations: reviewing the 7th edition
- Dilapidations: RICS dispute resolution scheme
- Dilapidations: rulings on landlords' obligations
- Dilapidations: summarising two rulings
- Dilapidations: the Dilapidations Protocol
- Dilapidations: vital role of specialist surveyors
- Dilapidations: what is supersession?
- Dilapidations and quantified demand: calculating likely loss
- Dilapidations claim: Civil Procedure Rules
- Dilapidations claim: issues of disclosure
- Dilapidations claims: all or nothing
- Dilapidations claims: overview
- Dilapidations insurance: reducing uncertainty about costs
- Dilapidations protocol: overview
- Dilapidations Protocol process: building surveyor, valuer and solicitor
- Dilapidations rulings
- Dilapidations schedules of condition
- Disability discrimination: reflecting on progress
- Discrimination law: landlord and tenant
E
- Electronic Communications Code: assessing proposed new code
- Electronics communication code: the need for guidance
- Embodied carbon: meeting emissions targets
- Embodied carbon: new guidance
- Energy: EPC questions
- Energy: renewable technology
- Energy consumption: 20-20-20 vision
- Energy efficiency: benefits of behavioural change
- Energy efficiency: building a home to the Passivhaus standard
- Energy efficiency: building technology
- Energy efficiency: commercial settings
- Energy efficiency: cutting costs
- Energy efficiency: Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme business impact
- Energy efficiency: EPCs
- Energy efficiency: government plans for buildings
- Energy efficiency: impact on properties
- Energy efficiency: initiatives
- Energy efficiency: materials
- Energy efficiency: previous failures help new initiatives
- Energy efficiency: regulations
- Energy efficiency: sustainable construction
- Energy efficiency: timber-frame buildings
- Energy efficiency: zero carbon home
- Energy legislation: air-con systems
- Energy Performance Certificates: pros and cons
- Environmental performance: sustainable goals
- EPCs and DECs
- EPCs Northern Ireland
- Equality Act 2010 and Building Regulations: Regulation 9 exemption
- Equality Act 2010: reasonable adjustments
- Equality Act and building managers’ responsibilities: Occupants with mental health needs
- Eviction: removing trespassers living on your land
- External wall insulation: Bicester house case study
- Extreme weather: adapting buildings
F
- Facilities management: being strategic
- Facilities management: compliance and quality service
- Facilities management: health and safety
- Facilities management: holistic view of asset performance
- Facilities management: key roles
- Facilities management: research on innovation
- Facilities management: RICS guidance
- Facilities management: Single-use plastics
- Facilities management: successful building
- Facilities management pilot scheme: helping innovation
- Fire doors: the difference between life and death
- Fire risk: management systems
- Fire safety: a holistic approach
- Fire safety: consultation with the fire service
- Fire safety: protection measures
- Flooding: surveyors and flood risk mitigation advice
- Flooding: using geographical data to predict floods
- Flood resilient construction
- Flood risk: planning for climate change
- Fracking: UK climate change commitments
G
H
- Hazardous inspections: the Never Never
- Health and safety: cases
- Health and safety: construction
- Health and safety: increased awareness
- Health and safety: lone workers
- Health and safety: powered perimeter gates
- Health and safety: risks posed by rats
- Heat regulations: multi-let buildings
- High street lettings: new avenues
- Holistic energy data: benefits
- Housing and health: hazards at home
I
- Inclusive design: Built Environment Professional Education project
- Inclusive design: defective design
- Inclusive design: RIBA’s Access Consultancy Services Schedule
- Infrastructure projects: developing BIM
- Insurance: dangers of underinsurance
- Insurance Act: understanding the changes fully
- Insurance claims: impact of the Enterprise Act
- Integrated management: space and property
- International Land Measurement Standards: challenges for land transaction
- International standards: development of IPMS
- Internet of Things: impact on building users and managers
L
- Land: telecommunications and planning
- Landlord and tenant: legal briefs
- Landlord and tenant: licence for alterations
- Lead in construction: green rating
- Lease renewal: implications for re-instatement clauses
- Lease repair covenants: definitions
- Legal briefs: dilapidations and lease renewals
- Legal contingency insurance: overview
- Legal terms: fixtures, fittings and chattels
- Legal terms: without prejudice and a Calderbank offer
- Legislation: coalition government changes
- Local asset backed vehicles
- Local authorities: property
- Logistics property market: changes
- Low-carbon future: sustainable communities
- Low energy future: Demand Side Response
M
- Management: accidents and adverse events
- Mapping and geographic data: harnessing solar energy
- Mapping coastal heritage: understanding climate change impacts
- Mediation: RICS professional guidance
- MEES: commercial property rental rates
- MEES: encouraging landlords to do more
- MEES: how are landlords preparing?
- MEES: impact on dilapidations claims
- MEES: implications and role of surveyors
- MEES: mitigating associated risks
- MEES: mitigating risks
- MEES: raising the standards
- MEES: what valuers need to know
- Microgeneration: feed-in tariff
- Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards: pressure on landlords
N
P
- Parking rights: private land
- Pension investment: property
- Professional indemnity insurance: consequences of lower premiums
- Property development – It’s all in the planning
- Property taxation: REITs rebooted
- Property values: the effect of sustainability legislation
- Public-sector asset managers: challenges and approaches being taken
- Public and private: learning from Scandinavia
- Public sector property: at what cost?
- Public sector property: NHS
R
- Rainwater harvesting: green building features
- Rare earth metals: restricted access
- Recyled materials: reinforced wall formwork systems
- Refurbishment: environmental issues
- Refurbishments: airtightness
- Refurbishments: commercial property
- Refurbishments: partial occupation
- Refurbishments: The Green Deal
- Regeneration: benefits
- Regeneration: building on a vision
- Regulation 9 exemption
- Regulation: dealing with debt
- Remote sensing technology: monitoring ground movement in London
- Renewable energies: solar power
- Renewable energy: anaerobic digestion
- Renewable energy: changes to government subsidies
- Renewable energy: energy recovery facilities
- Renewable energy: Feed-in Tariff
- Renewable energy: solar power production
- Renewable energy: taking advantage of new sectors
- Residential: retrofit
- Residential and SDLT: unclaimed relief
- Residential property: Assigned Risks Pool
- Residential property: homes and health
- Rethinking emergency: trust and resilience
- Risk assessment: commercial property
- Roof inspections: solar panels
S
- Schools: leaner, greener, meaner
- Scotland: building design
- Scottish building regulations
- Scottish housing: challenges for refurbishment
- Security: facilities managers
- Shale gas: possible environmental impacts and risk
- SKA: reducing risk and increasing success on a project
- Ska rating for higher education: adoption in the industry
- Smart cities: big data to improve city life
- Smart materials: self-cleaning coatings
- Social media: benefits
- Soft landings framework: the principles
- Solar energy: research
- Sports ground safety: understanding responsibilities
- Squatting: residential and commercial property
- Squatting legislation
- Subsidence: insurance claims
- Subterranean houses: building control
- Supersession: recent ruling
- Sustainability: climate change
- Sustainability: CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme
- Sustainability: EU energy saving opportunities
- Sustainability: EU targets
- Sustainability: existing buildings
- Sustainability: garden cities
- Sustainability: heat pumps
- Sustainability: homes of the future
- Sustainability: Pay As You Save
- Sustainability: property lifecycle
- Sustainability: property taxes
- Sustainability: rating systems
- Sustainability: reducing construction waste
- Sustainability: Renewable Heat Incentive
- Sustainability: RICS property lifecycle
- Sustainability: Ska Rating
- Sustainability: taxation
- Sustainability: whole life carbon
- Sustainability and real estate: lending risk
- Sustainability compliance: adding value
- Sustainability in Australia: exploring measurement in buildings
- Sustainability in property: higher rent
- Sustainability standards: health and wellbeing
- Sustainable architecture
- Sustainable buildings: China
- Sustainable construction: an Australian viewpoint
- Sustainable construction: client requirements
- Sustainable construction: funding
- Sustainable construction: Wolseley UK Ltd
- Sustainable development: urban areas
- Sustainable development case studies
- Sustainable drainage: implications
- Sustainable drainage: surface water flood resilience
- Sustainable procurement: benefits
- Sustainable valuation: benefits to property and valuation markets
T
- Tall buildings: carbon emissions
- Tech and climate: changing work
- Tech benefits: land registry and governance
- Technology: cloud computing
- Technology: future impact on surveying
- Technology infrastructure: broadband and construction projects
- Telecoms: legal implications of the Electronic Communications Code
- Telecoms law: new revisions
- Trees: climate change
- TUPE: impact on property managers
- TUPE: reform of the law
U
- UK building stock: challenges to maintain progress
- UK energy challenges: generating power
- UK offshore renewables: encouraging investment
- Unoccupied commercial property: insurance
- Upland peatlands: archaeological heritage
- Uplands: birds of prey and driven grouse shooting
- Urban resilience: what does it mean?
V
W