Features
Infrastructure
A
- Accessibility: European focus
- Accessibility: welcoming everyone
- Achieving excellence: history and heritage
- Adjudication: Australia
- Adjudication: development
- Adjudication: natural justice, enforceability of awards and costs
- Adjudication: the paying party's rights
- Affordable housing: repairing the system
- Agricultural disputes: case law
- Alternative dispute resolution: dilapidations
- APC competencies: Fire safety
- APC competencies: procurement and tendering
- APC competencies: sustainability
- APC competencies: works progress and quality management
- Arbitration: a new approach: Restoring arbitration
- Artificial intelligence: impact in the workplace
- Asbestos: respiratory hazards
- Ash dieback: changing the landscape
- Asset management: dealing with uncertainty
- Asset management: Royal Mail
- Asset management systems: social housing
B
- Basements: enforcing waterproofing standards
- Bat conservation: good practice for conducting surveys
- BCIS data: cost estimates
- BIM: accuracy and Level 2 BIM
- BIM: an MEP's experience
- BIM: Australian experience
- BIM: building control
- BIM: building control and basic checking tasks
- BIM: building surveying
- BIM: certification
- BIM: challenges of geo-enabling
- BIM: collaboration
- BIM: concept and impact
- BIM: contractual implications
- BIM: costing information models from NRM1 and 3
- BIM: cost planning tool possibilities
- BIM: cyber defence measures required
- BIM: facilities management
- BIM: first legal case
- BIM: for small practices
- BIM: government strategy
- BIM: implications for building control surveyors
- BIM: implications for refurbishments
- BIM: IT requirements
- BIM: land administration challenges
- BIM: progress so far
- BIM: questions and answers
- BIM: refurbishment projects
- BIM: RICS BIM Manager Certification scheme
- BIM: risk management during a project’s life cycle
- BIM: survey of a major US mall
- BIM: technology advances
- BIM: traditional buildings
- BIM: UK progress
- BIM: UK progress
- BIM: US experience
- BIM adoption: 2017 research
- BIM and building surveying: laser scanning
- BIM and commercial property: opportunities for property professionals
- BIM and RICS head office: challenges
- BIM and RICS head office: extracting quantities
- BIM and RICS head office: facilities management
- BIM and RICS head office: IT environment issues
- BIM and RICS head office: producing an estimate
- BIM for building surveyors: background to new guidance note
- BIM in office buildings: progress and development
- Biodiversity: key laws and policies
- Biodiversity and the built environment: protection
- Biological threats: ash die back
- Blockchains: development of modern financial tech and cadastres
- Bribery Act: raising the bar
- Building adaption: keeping pace with a dynamic real estate market
- Building assessment: computer modelling
- Building control: adopting BIM
- Building control: fire risk
- Building control: fire safety
- Building control: football stadium
- Building control: local authorities
- Building control: Robust Details
- Building control: safety
- Building conversion: exploiting opportunities
- Building from waste
- Building information models – A new dimension
- Building in Quality initiative: achievements
- Building pathology: radon
- Building services: practical issues
- Building surveying: insurance
- Building surveying: legal privilege
- Building surveying: working with smart phones and tablets
- Built environment strategy: sector in 2030
- Business rates: land and real estate
C
- Capital allowances: cash flow benefits
- Capital allowances: latest legislation
- Capital allowances regime: fixtures in second-hand properties
- Capital gains and inheritance tax: non-UK residents not exempt
- Capital gains tax: relief on development land
- CDM Regulations: health and safety changes
- CDM regulations: improving safety
- CDM Regulations: insurance implications for principal designers
- CDM Regulations: issues raised by the 2015 changes
- CDM Regulations: legal implications of changes
- CDM Regulations: what do the 2015 changes mean?
- Change management
- Change management: costs, delays and risk
- Change management: project’s lifecycle
- Change management: safeguarding the future of our planet
- Charging infrastructure: opportunities and challenges
- Chartered management consultancy surveyors: demand from businesses
- Circular economy: role of facilities manager
- City planning in Sweden
- Civil litigation costs reform
- Civil Procedure Rule 35
- Cladding: strengths and weaknesses of different types
- Commercial: planning
- Commercial construction warranties
- Commercial investors: risk management in the property market
- Commercial management of construction: core quantity surveying skills
- Commercial property: cycle storage and smart technology
- Commercial property law FAQs: double rent, expert witness, fixtures
- Communications: 4G roll out
- Compensating for compulsory acquisition
- Compulsory purchase: compensation
- Compulsory purchase powers: mandatory behaviours
- Conflict and disputes
- Constructing excellence
- Construction: adjudicator jurisdiction
- Construction: CDM roles
- Construction: debt management
- Construction: delivering growth
- Construction: design costs
- Construction: instruction to omit works
- Construction: letters of intent
- Construction: offsite housing
- Construction: prefabrication
- Construction: public infrastructure
- Construction: risk management
- Construction: tenders
- Construction bonds: managing risks
- Construction case law: Building Regulations and giving expert advice
- Construction case law: importance of checking contract details
- Construction case law: liabilities of project monitors and construction professionals
- Construction case law: meaning of ‘construction operations’
- Construction case law: payment notices
- Construction case law: terms of work
- Construction contingencies in infrastructure
- Construction contracts: performance security
- Construction contracts: project manager's role and responsibilities
- Construction contracts: sectional completion
- Construction costs: rise in costs in Hong Kong
- Construction debt: true culprits
- Construction FAQs: letters of intent
- Construction health and safety: benefits of lag and lead metrics
- Construction health and safety: risk management
- Construction law myths ... duress
- Construction policy: driving economic policy
- Construction procurement: Asian construction market
- Construction procurement framework: ProCure22
- Construction project performance: BIM
- Construction projects: accounting for inflation
- Construction projects: learning from mistakes
- Construction projects: procurement methods
- Construction recruitment: retaining young talent
- Construction resources: mineral shortages
- Construction sector: education and training
- Contaminated land: CL:AIRE
- Contaminated land: metals
- Contaminated land: regulations
- Contaminated land: understanding complex legislation
- Contract administration: design responsibilities
- Contract administration: dispute resolution
- Contract administration: letter of intent
- Contract administration: role comparisons
- Contract administration: successful project management
- Contract administration: time issues
- Contract administration: trips and traps
- Contracts: agree clear contracts before commencement
- Contracts: JCT Subcontracts
- Corporate manslaughter: first case
- Cost analysis and benchmarking
- Cost management: central role of the quantity surveyor
- Cost management: holistic cost information system
- Cost planning: RICS NRM and best practice
- Cost reporting: RICS guidance note overview
- Crossrail: lifting legislative provisions
- Cyber attacks: mitigating risks in the property and construction sector
D
- Data centres: vital part of the urban landscape
- Data in real estate: a valuable asset
- Data management: improving project performance
- Data standards: linking RICS and proptech
- Data strategy: understanding infratech
- Design responsibility: practical tips
- Developing building standards: Cambodia
- Development hurdles: environmental protection
- Dilapidations: RICS dispute resolution scheme
- Dispute resolution: adjudication advice
- Dispute resolution: adjudication court rulings
- Dispute resolution: arbitration over other methods
- Dispute resolution: communication
- Dispute resolution: dispute boards
- Dispute resolution: independent experts
- Dispute resolution: international arbitration
- Dispute resolution: mediation
- Dispute resolution: preparing to enter mediation
- Dispute resolution: procurement disputes
- Dispute resolution and global claims: keeping records
- Dispute resolution and global claims: Walter Lilly v Mackay decision
- Documenting land: replacing traditional technologies
- Drafting technical documents: possible pitfalls
- Draft legislation: ecosystem services
- Drainage: tall buildings
- Drone surveys: challenges in desert environments
E
- e-tendering: overview
- Ecological surveys: avoiding development delays
- Ecological surveys: ignoring issues
- Embodied carbon: assessing whole life carbon emissions
- Embodied carbon: Farringdon Station
- Empty property risks: fly-tipping, metal theft and squatting
- Energy management: network energy charges
- Environment draft: London Plan and Environment Strategy
- Equality: gender diversity and project management
- Equestrian property: tax aspects
- Escalator standards: London rail stations
- European life cycle costing
- Evolving business: a fresh approach
- Expert witness: immunity protection
- Expert witness: implications
- Expert witness: risks of acting as expert advisers and witnesses in the same case
- Expert witness: what being instructed entails
- Expert witnesses and immunity
F
- Facilities management: data is key
- Facilities management: Single-use plastics
- FIDIC: are changes a help or a hindrance?
- FIDIC: changes to the Rainbow Suite
- Fire safety: alarms
- Fire safety: building control bodies
- Fire safety: classification documents
- Fire safety: collaboration
- Fire safety: competence
- Fire safety: compliance with the Disability Discrimination Act
- Fire safety: design
- Fire safety: fire doors
- Fire safety: fire risk assessment programmes
- Fire safety: hospitals
- Fire safety: improving building safety
- Fire safety: interpreting fire model results
- Fire safety: London's timber-framed buildings
- Fire safety: open plan flats
- Fire safety: protection measures
- Fire safety: residential premises
- Fire safety: responsibility and liability
- Fire safety: responsible persons
- Fire safety: the sprinkler debate
- Fire safety: timber-framed construction
- Fire safety: transparent supply chain
- Flooding: surveyors and flood risk mitigation advice
- Flood risk: planning
- Flood risk: planning for climate change
- Floors: reinforcing beam and block floors
- Flue systems: safety
- Forests and woodland: achieving economic resilience
- Forests and woodlands: ownership
- Fracking: introduction in the UK
- Fracking: underbalanced drilling can address concerns
G
H
- Health and safety: access to files
- Health and safety: cases
- Health and safety: CDM Differently
- Health and safety: construction
- Health and safety: controlling noise on construction sites
- Health and safety: increased awareness
- Health and safety: lead risk
- Health and safety: lone workers
- Health and safety: risk and punishment
- Health and safety: risks posed by rats
- Health and safety: sports grounds as music venues
- Health and safety: subcontractor management
- Health and safety: threat of urban gulls
- Health and safety: understanding responsibilities
- Health and safety and corporate manslaughter: new sentencing guidelines
- Health and safety breaches: tougher consequences
- Health and safety issues: planning ahead
- Health and safety site risks: on-site issues
- Health and safety site risks: pre-visit issues
- Historic buildings: laser scanning developments
- HMRC: VAT policy changes
- HS2: balancing transport, finance and politics
- HS2: collaborative working is crucial for success
I
- ICMS: combining technological advances with international standards
- ICMS: update on progress
- Improving construction: performance management
- Inclusive design: Built Environment Professional Education project
- Inclusive design: defective design
- Inclusive design: overlooked items in new developments
- Inclusive design: RIBA’s Access Consultancy Services Schedule
- Inclusive design and accessibility: can more be done?
- Industrial simulation: developing skills
- Inflation indices: Crossrail’s procurement strategy
- Inflation indices: infrastructure projects
- Infrastructure: fitness for the future
- Infrastructure: highway projects
- Infrastructure and decision making: getting the right data
- Infrastructure delivery: going digital
- Infrastructure development plans
- Infrastructure in America: federal, state and private
- Infrastructure projects: capital and operational expenditure
- Infrastructure projects: developing BIM
- Insolvency in construction: steps to take
- Insurance: claims against surveyors
- Intelligent asset data: barriers to adoption
- Interim decisions: historical facts
- International construction measurement standards: new global initiative
- International standards: improving comparability between projects
- Internet of Things: impact on building users and managers
- IPMS: comparison with the Code of Measuring Practice
- IPMS: effect on professional practice
- isurv Infrastructure
- isurv Infrastructure: what does the new channel offer?
J
L
- Land: flooding
- Land: forestry safety
- Land: tree mapping
- Land agreements: competition law update
- Land markets: Chilean Patagonia
- Land registration
- Land value: finding a price
- Legal issues: Cleveland Bridge UK Ltd
- Legal issues: tolent clauses
- Legal questions: claiming blight
- Legal questions: collateral warranty
- Legal questions: expert witness and conflicts of interest
- Legal questions: expert witnesses and conflicts of interest
- Legal questions: health and safety adviser risks
- Legal questions: intellectual property rights and BIM
- Legal questions: letter of intent
- Legal questions: mediation
- Legal questions: Performance Bonds and Parent Company Guarantees
- Legal questions: sectional completion and partial possession
- Legal questions: securing town and village green status
- Legal questions: status of the defects list
- Legal questions: step-in rights
- Legal terms: biodiversity and the built environment
- Life cycle costing: reductions from using NRM3
- Life cycle costing in FM
- Life cycle cost planning: history and importance
- Liquidations and adjudications
- Living with dementia: best practice
- Local energy: cost-effective decarbonisation
- Localism Act: legislation
- Localism Act: royal assent
- Location data: waste collection
M
- Management: accidents and adverse events
- Managing communications: information paper
- Manchester renovation project: collaborative working
- Manchester renovation project: conservation issues
- Manchester renovation project: effectiveness of BIM
- Manchester renovation project: the vision, the team and BIM
- Mapping
- Mapping: technology
- Measured surveys: importance of the client and surveyor
- Measurement: measured building surveys - A handy device
- Mediation: professional guidance
- Mental health: support in construction
- Minerals valuation: new technology
N
- National Planning Policy Framework PUBLISHED
- NEC4: reviewing the changes
- Negligence: liability
- Negligence: liability timescale
- Negotiation and construction: improving skills and upholding ethics
- Neighbourly matters: tree roots
- New forests: planting the future
- NRM3: government construction strategy
- NRM 3: implications for China and Hong Kong
- NRM 3: interoperability between projects
- NRM3: overview
- Nuclear site: planning permission
P
- Part P: under review
- Payment provisions: potential impact of LDEDC
- Planned maintenance: multi-storey car park
- Planning: competition law
- Planning: CPO limitations
- Planning: impact on CPOs
- Planning: land use
- Planning: NPPF
- Planning applications: potential effects on the environment
- Politics and regulation: understanding the nuances
- Powers of entry: code of practice
- Procurement: Crossrail
- Procurement: EU rules
- Procurement: industry landscape
- Procurement disputes: client-related issues
- Procurement disputes: contractor-related issues
- Project bank accounts: late payments
- Project co-ordination: clerk of works
- Project co-ordination: considering the challenges
- Project co-ordination: design delivery
- Project co-ordination: project management legalities
- Project coordination: EDM
- Project costs: certainty through certification
- Project failure: lessons learnt and risk management
- Project management: agile methodology
- Project management: avoiding disputes
- Project management: basic principles
- Project management: controlling project costs
- Project management: data centres and specialist skills
- Project management: Heathrow airport
- Project management: lean techniques
- Project management: learning from the past
- Project managers: get the right apps
- Project monitoring: distressed projects
- Project monitoring: tick box cultures
- Property: business continuity
- Property: legal advice
- Property assets: reasons to audit
- Property gains: new changes
- Property in Politics: transforming UK construction
- Property measurement
- Property receivers' role: distressed property
- Property tax: capital allowances update
- Property tax: high-value properties and offshore companies
- Property taxes: is radical reform needed?
- Proptech: how to stimulate infrastructure development
R
- Real estate: place making
- Reducing costs: detecting objects
- Refurbishments: partial occupation
- Regulation: contaminated land
- Renewable energy: energy recovery facilities
- Research: contract sum and final account
- Residential: major changes to taxation of property
- Residential: re-using empty property
- Residential building surveyors: requirements of domestic clients
- Residential developments: issues related to the Highways Act 1980
- Residential investors and developers: tax legislation
- Residential property owned by companies: lower tax charge thresholds
- Retirement: winding up a practice
- RICS Africa summit: smart cities
- RICS guidance: GI for surveyors
- RICS insight: healthier space
- Rural arbitration: background to RICS guidance note
- Rural business: policy changes
S
- School infrastructure: Liberia
- Scotland's derelict sites: transforming unused land
- Security: risk management
- Security risks: essential crime prevention
- Service charges: open space
- Small business rates relief: getting the right advice
- Smart buildings: health and wellbeing
- Smart cities: business plans
- Smart cities: data sharing
- Smart cities: Virtual NewcastleGateshead
- Smart rubbish: IT and waste disposal
- Social value: exploring the concept
- Solar panels: installation risks
- Sports grounds: guidance
- Stakeholder engagement: RICS guidance
- Standard contracts: evolution of Ts and Cs
- Strategy: procurement scenarios debated
- Stress in construction: ignoring dangers to health
- Stress in construction: more effective reporting framework
- Stress in construction: study results
- Subsidence: root barriers
- Subsidence: trees
- Subsidence and old mine workings: underground dangers
- Supply chain management: importance of managing data
- Supply chain management: thriving in competitive markets
- Supply chain management: understanding local markets
- Supply chains: changing VAT
- Supply chains in construction: fulfilling all tax liabilities
- Surveyors acting as advocates: overview of practice statement
- Surveys: case studies
- Sustainability: property taxes
- Sustainability: reducing construction waste
- Sustainability: taxation
- Sustainable procurement: benefits
T
- Taxation: VAT costs of building to rent
- Tax implications: guidelines
- Technology: redefining how buildings are defined and constructed
- The circular economy: affordability and resilience
- The employer's agent: what do they do?
- The modern office: predictive workplaces
- Transforming stadia: competition to community
- Tree management: dealing with pests and diseases
- Tree management: urban trees
- Trees: cases concerning damage
- Trees: climate change
- Trees: hazard management
- Trees and TPOs: carrying out work
U
- UK building stock: challenges to maintain progress
- UK flood management: considering China's approach
- UK government initiatives: health and safety
- UK offshore renewables: encouraging investment
- UK zero carbon targets: retrofitting for energy efficiency
- University of Glasgow: working with surveyors
- Urban design: creating inspiring places
- Urban infrastructure and balancing lifestyles: Whitechapel. London project
- Urban resilience: what does it mean?
- US market: professional opportunities
W
- Warranties and guarantees: ensuring they offer adequate protection
- 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: sustainability
- Waste management: using spatial data
- Waste regulations: re-using materials
- Wildlife protection: developer incentives
- Wind farms: policy proposals
- Woodland planting: securing income and grants in Scotland
- Working at height: reducing the toll
- Workplace green space: biophilic design