Features
Sustainability
A
- Achieving excellence: history and heritage
- Affordable and sustainable housing
- Affordable housing: Malaysia
- Agricultural land: ownership in Europe
- Agricultural land classification: management of resources
- Agricultural land in Ireland: land market review
- Agricultural management: managing farmland
- Air pollution: monitoring and improvement
- APC competencies: sustainability
- Approved documents: adapting for digital
- Artificial intelligence: impact in the workplace
- Asbestos: reducing risk in soil on brownfield sites
- Assessing building services: solar energy
B
- Bat conservation: good practice for conducting surveys
- Bats: impact on building development
- BIM: building surveying
- BIM: implications for building control surveyors
- BIM: land administration challenges
- BIM and RICS head office: producing an estimate
- Biodiversity: key laws and policies
- Biodiversity and the built environment: protection
- Biodiversity funding: new models
- Biomass fuels: sustainable power
- Boundaries: flood damage
- BRE: future development
- Brexit: RICS UK rural land priorities
- British homes: new energy efficiency standards
- Building assessment: computer modelling
- Building conservation: conservation skills
- Building control: BBA certification
- Building control: disaster recovery
- Building control: energy
- Building control: environmental profiles
- Building control: football stadium
- Building control: glazing
- Building control: Library of Birmingham
- Building control: linear thermal bridging
- Building control: mitigating earthquake risk
- Building control: Part L key changes
- Building control: roofing
- Building control in Australia: energy performance
- Building control in Australia: extreme weather
- Building control in Australia: recording data
- Building from waste
- Building pathology: identifying structural movement
- Building pathology: insulating and reflective coatings
- Building pathology: nanotechnology
- Building pathology: radon
- Building pathology: water penetration
- Building regulations: ensuring compliance
- Building Regulations: policing zero carbon policies
- Building services: lighting LEDs
- Building services: lighting types in commercial use
- Building services: practical issues
- Building surveying: energy performance
- Building surveying: offsite construction
- Building surveying: planned maintenance
- Building surveying and drones: developing technology
- Built environment: aiming higher
- Built environment: energy performance improvements
- Built environment strategy: sector in 2030
C
- Carbon and woodland: increasing opportunities
- Carbon capture and storage: overview
- 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: cutting carbon emissions
- Churches: solar panels
- Circular economy: role of facilities manager
- Cladding: strengths and weaknesses of different types
- Clean water: supply in Tanzania
- Climate change: challenges facing built environment professionals
- Commercial: planning
- Commercial energy ratings: technical review
- Commercial EPCs: improving a building's energy rating
- 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
- Common Agriculture Policy reform
- Community land: local projects and landowners
- Compensating for compulsory acquisition
- Compliance: end of line testing
- Construction: asbestos in soil
- Construction: carbon footprint
- Construction: modular classrooms
- Construction: offsite housing
- Construction: prefabrication
- Construction: subterranean house
- Contaminated land: CL:AIRE
- Contaminated land: metals
- Contaminated land: regulations
- Contaminated land: understanding complex legislation
- Coordinating construction: ensuring safety
- Coral: a natural approach
D
- Damp in basements: ground condition surveys
- Data centres: vital part of the urban landscape
- Deer herding: history and economics
- Defects: modern buildings
- DEFRA: Ben Goldsmith interview
- Development: cases on restrictive covenants
- Development hurdles: environmental protection
- Development proposals: sustainable growth
- Diverse workforce: making it a reality
- Documenting land: replacing traditional technologies
- Draft legislation: ecosystem services
- Drainage misconnections: impact of water quality
- Drone surveys: challenges in desert environments
E
- Ecological surveys: avoiding development delays
- Ecological surveys: ignoring issues
- Economic develoment: implications for UK
- Ecosystem services: commerical deals for natural capitals
- Embodied carbon: assessing whole life carbon emissions
- Embodied carbon: assessment
- Embodied carbon: Farringdon Station
- Embodied carbon: meeting emissions targets
- Embodied carbon: new guidance
- Embodied carbon: new information paper
- Empty property risks: fly-tipping, metal theft and squatting
- Energy: EPC questions
- Energy: Green Deal
- Energy: letter boxes
- Energy: renewable technology
- Energy consumption: 20-20-20 vision
- Energy consumption: CRC
- 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: first energy-positive building renovation
- Energy efficiency: government plans for buildings
- Energy efficiency: impact on properties
- Energy efficiency: initiatives
- Energy efficiency: materials
- Energy efficiency: misconceptions
- Energy efficiency: offsetting carbon in London
- Energy efficiency: overheating and ventilation in homes
- Energy efficiency: previous failures help new initiatives
- Energy efficiency:reflective insulation
- Energy efficiency: regulations
- Energy efficiency: residential surveying
- Energy efficiency: skills
- Energy efficiency: sustainable construction
- Energy efficiency: tapered roof insulation
- Energy efficiency: timber-frame buildings
- Energy efficiency: zero carbon home
- Energy efficiency in traditional buildings: understanding design
- Energy legislation: air-con systems
- Energy performance: improving the Standard Assessment Procedure
- Energy Performance Certificates: pros and cons
- Environment: our energy future
- Environmental data: collection and assessments
- Environmental data: meeting user needs
- Environmental monitoring: using drones
- Environmental performance: sustainable goals
- Environment draft: London Plan and Environment Strategy
- EPCs and DECs
- EPCs Northern Ireland
- Equestrian property: legal issues
- European research: energy efficiency
- Existing buildings: insulation
- Existing buildings: refurbishments
- Expert witness: immunity protection
- External wall insulation: Bicester house case study
- Extreme weather: adapting buildings
F
- Facilities management: being strategic
- Facilities management: Single-use plastics
- Facilities management: water
- Farming and land management: advances in technology
- Flood damage: commercial property
- Flood damage: performance of materials
- Flood defence: building quality and construction
- Flooding: adapting to the rising challenge
- Flooding: changing land-use practices
- Flooding: consumer guide
- Flooding: Earth Observation satellites
- Flooding: have concerns been addressed?
- Flooding: historic buildings
- Flooding: insurance
- Flooding: lessons learnt about protection
- Flooding: management of surface water
- Flooding: new plans to protect properties
- Flooding: opportunities for building surveyors
- Flooding: promoting resilience
- Flooding: recovering from damage
- Flooding: repairable approaches
- Flooding: soft skills and flood repair
- Flooding: surface water flooding
- Flooding: surveyors and flood risk mitigation advice
- Flooding: sustainable drainage and permeable paving
- Flooding: techniques for drying property
- Flooding: UK’s first amphibious house
- Flooding: using geographical data to predict floods
- Flooding and drainage: drainage infrastructure
- Flooding and drainage: reducing the impact
- Flooding prevention: glacial lake outbursts
- Flood prevention: natural flood management in the UK
- Flood resilient construction
- Flood risk: assessment
- Flood risk: London
- Flood risk: planning
- Flood risk: planning for climate change
- Flood risk: raising the profile
- Floors: reinforcing beam and block floors
- Fracking: introduction in the UK
- Fracking: management of environmental risks
- Fracking: the real risks
- Fracking: UK climate change commitments
- Fracking: underbalanced drilling can address concerns
G
- Giant hogweed: regulations to help battle invasive weeds
- Glass roofs: good design and energy savings
- Global construction: 2018 snapshot
- Global construction: cross laminated timber
- Grant submissions: automated validation
- Green Deal: commercial property
- Green Deal: impact on surveyors
- Green Deal: issues
- Green deal: progress so far
- Green Deal: renewable technology
- Greenfield and brownfield land: housing developments
- Green infrastructure: projects around London
- Green leases: learning from Australia
- Green roof retrofit: reducing run-off during heavy rainfall
- Green roofs: benefits
- Green roofs: improving mental health
- Green roofs: the business case
- Ground-source systems: correct installation
- Growth: economic and environmental
H
I
J
- Japanese knotweed: implications for development sites
- Japanese knotweed: mortgage valuation
- Japanese knotweed: new information paper
- Japanese knotweed: UK overview
- Japanese knotweed: why do surveyors need to be aware?
- Japanese knotweed and residential property: diminution in value
- Japanese knotweed case law: surveyors' responsibilities
- Japanese knotweed case law: surveyors' responsibilities
L
- Land: administration
- Land: anaerobic digestion
- Land: asset disposal
- Land: flooding
- Land: insurers
- Land: internet access
- Land: property rights
- Land: telecommunications and planning
- Land: tree mapping
- Land acquisition: developing countries
- Land administration: developing countries
- Land administration: quick and affordable security of tenure
- Land administration: spatial frameworks
- Land administration systems: Bangladesh
- Land and investment: improving access in low-income countries
- Land governance: 2030 goals
- Land management: improving biodiversity
- Land markets: Chilean Patagonia
- Land matching in England
- Land measurement: creating consistency
- Land ownership: charitable land trust
- Land registration
- Land tenure: crowdsourcing
- Land valuation systems: land rights
- Lead in construction: green rating
- Legal issues: modern methods of construction
- Legal questions: buying unregistered land
- Legal questions: noise complaints
- Legal terms: biodiversity and the built environment
- Legislation: coalition government changes
- Licensing protected species: ending exclusion
- Localism Act: legislation
- Localism Act: royal assent
- Location data: waste collection
- Logistics property market: changes
- Low-carbon future: sustainable communities
- Low energy future: Demand Side Response
M
- Mapping: building control in Norway
- Mapping and geographic data: harnessing solar energy
- Mapping coastal heritage: understanding climate change impacts
- MEES: commercial property rental rates
- MEES: encouraging landlords to do more
- MEES: government guidance
- 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
- Mineral ownership: overview
- Mineral products: contribution to UK economy
- Minerals: industry performance
- Minerals: past and future UK trends
- Minerals and construction: key facts
- Minerals planning: supply
- Minerals valuation: new technology
- Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards: pressure on landlords
- Mink initiative: invasive species control
- MMC: progress and dangers
- MMC: quality assurance
- Modern methods of construction: overcoming challenges
- Modern pesticides: impacts and benefits
- Modular construction: comparison with traditional methods
- Modular construction: embracing off-site construction
N
O
- Off-site construction: modular methods
- Off-site construction: penthouse extensions
- Off-site manufacture: potential benefit
- Off-site manufacturing: success for projects
- Office environments: low power solutions
- Office strip-outs: recycling and the circular economy
- Offshore renewable energy: transparent evidence
- Offshore renewable energy: wind
- Offsite construction: infrastructure projects
- Olympics legacy: future of the 2012 venues
- Organic farming: reducing tillage
P
- Part L2: compliant building
- Part L 2010
- Part L: historic buildings
- Part L: non-domestic buildings
- Part L: summary of 2014 changes
- Passivhaus standard: comparison with traditional designs
- Planning: future development
- Planning: NPPF
- Planning: value of a place
- Planning applications: potential effects on the environment
- Property assets: reasons to audit
- Property development – It’s all in the planning
- Property management: mall in Hong Kong
- Property values: the effect of sustainability legislation
- Public and private: learning from Scandinavia
- Public forests: management standards
R
- Rainwater harvesting: green building features
- Rare earth metals: restricted access
- Real estate: corporate social responsibility
- Recyled materials: reinforced wall formwork systems
- Refurbishment: environmental issues
- Refurbishments: airtightness
- Refurbishments: commercial property
- Refurbishments: The Green Deal
- Regeneration: benefits
- Regeneration: in context
- Regulation: contaminated land
- Regulation: dealing with debt
- Remote satellites: monitoring and defence
- Remote sensing technology: monitoring ground movement in London
- Renewable energies: solar power
- Renewable energy
- Renewable energy: anaerobic digestion
- Renewable energy: changes to government subsidies
- Renewable energy: energy recovery facilities
- Renewable energy: Feed-in Tariff
- Renewable energy: National Trust
- Renewable energy: solar
- Renewable energy: solar power production
- Renewable energy: taking advantage of new sectors
- Residential: high local water tables and flooding
- Residential: impact of airtightness on indoor environments
- Residential: retrofit
- Residential: summarising RICS policy
- Residential construction: off-site manufacture
- Residential EPCs: impact of new requirements
- Residential property: homes and health
- Residential property: japanese knotweed
- Residential retrofit: testing effectiveness
- Resource management
- Rewilding projects
- RICS insight: healthier space
- RICS regulation: fostering confidence
- RICS residential policy: property prices and the rental market
- Risk assessment: supporting the UK’s energy sector
- Roof inspections: solar panels
- RSPB: asset valuation
- Rural: development research
- Rural: encouraging responsible farming practices
- Rural business: policy changes
S
- Schools: leaner, greener, meaner
- Scotland's derelict sites: transforming unused land
- Scotland: building design
- Scotland: peatland restoration
- Scottish building regulations
- Scottish housing: challenges for refurbishment
- Scottish land reform
- Scottish rural issues:land use in the uplands
- Service charges: open space
- Shale gas: possible environmental impacts and risk
- Sinkholes: checking records before development starts
- Sinkholes: knowledge of extent and location
- SKA: reducing risk and increasing success on a project
- Ska Rating: assessing sustainable fit outs
- Ska rating: University College London
- Ska rating for higher education: adoption in the industry
- Smart buildings: health and wellbeing
- Smart buildings: impact of construction industry
- Smart cities: big data to improve city life
- Smart cities: combatting city poverty and deprivation
- Smart cities: planning and development
- Smart materials: antimicrobials
- Smart materials: intumescents
- Smart materials: self-cleaning coatings
- Smart materials: the future
- Smart materials: tomorrow's world, today
- Smart rubbish: IT and waste disposal
- Soil, air, water: developments and opportunities
- Soil: impact on daily life
- Solar energy: research
- Solar PV: considerations for valuers
- Staying clean: heat and damp
- Subsidence and old mine workings: underground dangers
- Subterranean houses: building control
- Successful business diversification for surveyors
- SUDS: sustainable drainage systems
- Surveying in Guyana: traditional techniques
- Sustainability: agriculture
- Sustainability: carbon reduction
- Sustainability: climate change
- Sustainability: CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme
- Sustainability: embodied carbon
- Sustainability: energy performance
- 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: placemaking and social value
- 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: transpired solar collectors
- 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: benefits and practical issues of green roofs and walls
- Sustainable buildings: China
- Sustainable construction: an Australian viewpoint
- Sustainable construction: client requirements
- Sustainable construction: funding
- Sustainable construction: Wolseley UK Ltd
- Sustainable development: resource shortages
- Sustainable development: urban areas
- Sustainable development case studies
- Sustainable drainage: implications
- Sustainable drainage: surface water flood resilience
- Sustainable land management: short-term tenancies
- Sustainable procurement: benefits
- Sustainable refurbishment: Pinnacle House
- Sustainable refurbishment: Pinnacle House
- Sustainable urban drainage systems: costing and valuing
- Sustainable valuation: benefits to property and valuation markets
- Sustainable workspaces: advantages in the market
T
- Tall buildings: carbon emissions
- Tech and climate: changing work
- Technology: redefining how buildings are defined and constructed
- Tenure: globally accepted standard
- The circular economy: affordability and resilience
- Thought leadership: ecosystem services
- Transforming stadia: competition to community
- Tree management: sudden oak death
- Trees: climate change
U
- UK building stock: challenges to maintain progress
- UK energy challenges: generating power
- UK flood management: considering China's approach
- UK minerals strategy: Meeting demand
- UK offshore renewables: encouraging investment
- UK zero carbon targets: retrofitting for energy efficiency
- Upland peatlands: archaeological heritage
- Uplands: birds of prey and driven grouse shooting
- Urban cities: sustainable futures
- Urbanisation: preventing and upgrading slums in growing cities
- Urban land: ecosystem services
- Urban population growth: alleivating water run-off problems
- Urban resilience: what does it mean?
V
W
- Warm Front scheme: strengths and weaknesses
- Waste: by-products and recycling
- Waste management: award-winning centre
- Waste management: bad odours and legal implications
- Waste management: emerging policy
- Waste management: landfill tax
- Waste management: metals
- Waste management: Mining Waste Directive
- Waste management: mixed prospects
- Waste management: new approaches
- Waste management: new thinking
- Waste management: sustainability
- Waste management: using spatial data
- Waste regulations: re-using materials
- Water: managing global water resources
- Water for consumption: developments in supply and management
- Water pollution
- Wildlife protection: developer incentives
- Wind farms: policy proposals
- Woodland planting: securing income and grants in Scotland
- Woodlands: management
- Woodlands and forests: economic performance
- Workplace green space: biophilic design
- World Heritage Sites: overtourism