Features archive
Building surveying
A
- Accessibility: European focus
- Accessibility: impact of Part M
- Achieving excellence: history and heritage
- Air pollution: monitoring and improvement
- Airspace ownership: development issues
- APC: building pathology
- APC: conservation and restoration
- APC competencies: building control pathway revised
- APC competencies: design and specification
- APC competencies: Fire safety
- APC competencies: inspection
- APC competencies: sustainability
- Approved documents: adapting for digital
- Artificial intelligence: impact in the workplace
- Asbestos: reducing risk in soil on brownfield sites
- Asbestosis claims: implications for employers and insurers
- Asset management: dealing with uncertainty
- Attention and upkeep: chimney maintenance
B
- Basement extension case law: Chaturachinda v Fairholme
- Better design: integrating fire engineering
- Big data and the built environment: challenges and applications
- BIM: cyber defence measures required
- BIM: implications for refurbishments
- BIM: technology advances
- BIM for building surveyors: background to new guidance note
- Blockchain and proptech: wider implementation
- Boundaries: protocol for dealing with disputes
- Boundary disputes: unbiased work
- British homes: new energy efficiency standards
- Building adaption: keeping pace with a dynamic real estate market
- Building assessment: computer modelling
- Building conservation: conservation skills
- Building conservation: level of expertise at risk
- Building control: accessibility and Part M
- Building control: adopting BIM
- Building control: BBA certification
- Building control: checking for non-compliance
- Building control: international benchmarking
- Building control: partnerships
- Building control: Wheelchair-accessible homes
- Building control in Australia: builders employing certifiers
- Building control in Australia: emergency lighting
- Building control in Australia: energy performance
- Building control in Australia: extreme weather
- Building control in Australia: issues raised by apartment fires
- Building control surveying: worldwide reform
- Building conversion: exploiting opportunities
- Building data: assessing the estate
- Building defects and responsibility: Scottish schools
- Building evacuations: means and alternatives
- Building history: bricks and mortar
- Building information models – A new dimension
- Building pathology: identifying structural movement
- Building pathology: lead paint
- Building pathology: PCBs
- Building pathology legal aspects: civil and criminal
- Building Regulation: inspectors and local authorities
- Building Regulations: condensation
- Building Regulations: consequences of overlooking responsibilities
- Building Regulations: declining application
- Building regulations: ensuring compliance
- Building Regulations: policing zero carbon policies
- Building Regulations Part Q: security regulation and approval
- Building safety: specifying and applying fire-stopping products
- Building services: terminology
- Building surveying: career paths
- Building surveying: leading technical investment strategies
- Building surveying: planned maintenance
- Building surveying: vapour control
- Building surveying and drones: developing technology
- Building surveying careers: encouraging future generations
- Building surveys abroad: challenges in Denmark
- Built environment: aiming higher
C
- Careers: promoting a diverse talent pool
- Causes of damp: building design, failure and occupants' lifestyle
- Causes of damp: poor design
- Cavity wall problems: bug or feature?
- Cavity walls: fixing defects
- CDM Regulations: issues raised by the 2015 changes
- CDM Regulations: what do the 2015 changes mean?
- Change management: safeguarding the future of our planet
- Chimney maintenance: fixing the problems
- Churches: cutting carbon emissions
- Churches and bats: roosting habits
- Circular economy: role of facilities manager
- Cladding: strengths and weaknesses of different types
- Clean homes: new reports
- Climate change: challenges facing built environment professionals
- Coal mining: property risks
- Combustible cladding: Australia and New Zealand
- Commercial energy ratings: technical review
- Commercial EPCs: improving a building's energy rating
- Commercial property law FAQs: dilapidations, EPC, forfeiture
- Commercial property law FAQs: Jervis v Harris clause, keys, liquidation
- Commercial property management: health and wellbeing
- Commercial sustainability: green bonds
- Connectivity: importance of sustainable digital infrastructure
- Conservation: retaining and sharing skills
- Conservation and renewal: restoration in Westminster
- Conservation philosophy
- Consortium of European Building Control
- Construction: asbestos in soil
- Construction: CDM roles
- Construction case law: Building Regulations and giving expert advice
- Contesting lease renewals: when would a surveyor be involved?
- Coordinating construction: ensuring safety
- Coral: a natural approach
- Customer feedback: importance of reviews
D
- Damp: use and occupation of dwellings
- Damp in basements: causes
- Damp in basements: ground condition surveys
- Dampness in homes: types of humidity
- Defective premises: key cases
- Defects: cladding systems
- Defects: complying with revised regulation
- Digital infrastructure toolkit: London
- Dilapidations: 2017 landmark case
- Dilapidations: advising on legal matters
- Dilapidations: alternative way of resolving disputes
- Dilapidations: negotiation advice
- Dilapidations: residential rulings
- Dilapidations: resolving disputes quickly
- Dilapidations: reviewing the 7th edition
- Dilapidations: RICS dispute resolution scheme
- Dilapidations: rulings on landlords' obligations
- Dilapidations: vital role of specialist surveyors
- Dilapidations: what is supersession?
- Dilapidations claim: Civil Procedure Rules
- Dilapidations claim: issues of disclosure
- Dilapidations insurance: reducing uncertainty about costs
- Dilapidations rulings
- Dilapidations schedules of condition
- Diverse workforce: making it a reality
- Diversity: construction industry
- Diversity and inclusion: benefits
- Domestic fires: preventing fatalities
- Drafting technical documents: possible pitfalls
- Drainage: tall buildings
- Driverless vehicles: impact on the retail and logistics sector
- Drones: regulation post-Gatwick
E
- Earthquakes: poorly designed and constructed buildings
- Ecosystem services: commerical deals for natural capital
- Electrical safety: advice for surveyors
- Employers: managing poor performers
- Employment: liability for harassment
- Empty property risks: fly-tipping, metal theft and squatting
- Energy efficiency: benefits of behavioural change
- Energy efficiency: building a home to the Passivhaus standard
- Energy efficiency: building technology
- Energy efficiency: English and Scottish legislation
- Energy efficiency: first energy-positive building renovation
- Energy efficiency: improvements in existing buildings
- Energy efficiency: offsetting carbon in London
- Energy efficiency: overheating and ventilation in homes
- Energy efficiency in traditional buildings: understanding design
- Energy House: accuracy in energy
- Energy management: network energy charges
- Energy performance: improving the Standard Assessment Procedure
- Energy performance: initiative for new homes
- Energy saving: choosing internal wall insulation
- Environmental monitoring: using drones
- Equality: diversity
- Equality: gender diversity and project management
- Equality: improving gender balance at senior levels
- Equality Act and building managers’ responsibilities: Occupants with mental health needs
- Equipment theft: taking preventative measures
- European research: energy efficiency
- Exposé: missing cavity barriers
F
- Facilities management: Single-use plastics
- Fire alarms: mitigating risk
- Fire detection: a new standard
- Fire detection and alarms: revised standards
- Fire detection professionals: new qualifications
- Fire engineering: common problems
- Fire engineering: different methods
- Fire inspection: defect identification
- Fire prevention: installing sprinklers in the UK
- Fire protection: full-frame structural fire engineering
- Fire safety: a holistic approach
- Fire safety: assumptions made in construction of buildings
- Fire safety: benefits of sprinklers in schools
- Fire safety: different models
- Fire safety: ensuring structural resilience
- Fire safety: having the relevant information
- Fire safety: high-rise fires in United Arab Emirates
- Fire safety: improvements for Approved Document B
- Fire safety: international standards to create consistency
- Fire safety: key criteria
- Fire safety: material testing
- Fire safety: open plan flats
- Fire safety: responsibility and liability
- Fire safety: roles and responsibilities
- Fire safety: room by room
- Fixtures and fittings: composition and risk
- Flood defence: building quality and construction
- Flooding: changing land-use practices
- Flooding: have concerns been addressed?
- Flooding: new plans to protect properties
- Flooding: promoting resilience
- Flooding: recovering from damage
- Flooding: repairable approaches
- Flooding: soft skills and flood repair
- Flooding: surveyors and flood risk mitigation advice
- Flooding: techniques for drying property
- Flooding: UK’s first amphibious house
- Flooding: using geographical data to predict floods
- Flooding prevention: glacial lake outbursts
- Flood risk: planning for climate change
- Floors: reinforcing beam and block floors
- From valuation assistant to FRICS: a career transition
G
- Georgian building: Bath museum extension
- Giant hogweed: regulations to help battle invasive weeds
- Global construction: 2018 snapshot
- Globalisation challenges: diversity is key
- Grant submissions: automated validation
- Green Guide: changing field of sports grounds
- Ground-source systems: correct installation
H
- Health and safety: access to files
- Health and safety: CDM Differently
- Health and safety: controlling noise on construction sites
- Health and safety: improving public perceptions
- Health and safety: lone workers
- Health and safety: risk and punishment
- Health and safety: risks posed by rats
- Health and safety: subcontractor management
- Health and safety: understanding responsibilities
- Health and safety and corporate manslaughter: new sentencing guidelines
- Health and safety issues: planning ahead
- Health and safety site risks: on-site issues
- Health and safety site risks: pre-visit issues
- Heritage: reminders of a troubled past
- Heritage assets: legislative context
- Historic buildings: laser scanning developments
- Historic buildings: quinquennial inspections
- Historic concrete structures: 9,000 years of building
- Holistic energy data: benefits
- Home surveys: new standards
- Housing and health: hazards at home
- Housing and Planning Act: key changes in the Act
- Housing construction
I
- Inclusive design: defective design
- Inclusive design: overlooked items in new developments
- Inclusive design and accessibility: can more be done?
- Inclusive employers
- Industrial simulation: developing skills
- Infrared thermal imaging: benefits to surveyors
- Insurance: claims against surveyors
- Insurance and records: post-retirement considerations
- Intelligent asset data: barriers to adoption
- International Ethics Standards: Q&A
- International Land Measurement Standards: challenges for land transaction
- International standards: why are they important?
- Invasive plants: European regulations
- IPMS: adoption in the Middle East
- Ivory: a global issue
J
L
M
- Management advice: dealing with drug and alcohol issues
- 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: preventing damage to overhead power lines
- Mapping and geographic data: harnessing solar energy
- Mapping coastal heritage: understanding climate change impacts
- Measurement: measured building surveys - A handy device
- Measurement and monitoring: refurbishment at Trinity College
- 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
- Mental health: support in construction
- Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards: pressure on landlords
- Mink initiative: invasive species control
- MMC: progress and dangers
- MMC: quality assurance
- Modular construction: embracing off-site construction
- Modular construction: social housing
N
O
P
- Party wall practice: impact of RICS' ethics
- Party walls: an avoidable costly award
- Pathology: identifying structural movement
- Pathology and building surveyors: key legal cases
- Professional indemnity: state of the insurance market
- Professional statement: commercial service charge code
- Property assets: reasons to audit
- Property technology: facing the future
- Proptech: attitudes to adoption
- Public and private: learning from Scandinavia
R
- Refurbishment: breathable renders
- Regulating the façade: fire safety
- Regulations and fire safety: implementing recommendations
- Remote sensing technology: monitoring ground movement in London
- Renewable energy: changes to government subsidies
- Residential: problems faced by older people
- Residential: rights of light complexities
- Residential building pathology and damp: building defects
- Residential building surveyors: requirements of domestic clients
- Residential construction: off-site manufacture
- Residential developments: issues related to the Highways Act 1980
- Residential drain surveys: using a certified surveyor
- Residential EPCs: impact of new requirements
- Residential Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm (England) Regulations 2015
- Residential surveys: drains
- Retail and leisure: designing around people's habits
- Rethinking emergency: trust and resilience
- Retirement: winding up a practice
- Revising standards: coherent clarification
- RICS insight: healthier space
- RICS residential policy: property prices and the rental market
- Rights of light: determining infringements
- Rights of light: developments subsequent to the RICS guidance note
- Rights of light: RICS guidance overview
- Rights of light insurance: property development
- Rural: encouraging responsible farming practices
- Rural business: policy changes
S
- Satellite monitoring: identifying defects
- Schedule of services: court ruling
- Scottish building standards: fire safety
- Scottish housing: challenges for refurbishment
- Security: creating secure, well-designed buildings
- Security risks: essential crime prevention
- Service charges: Daejan v Benson
- 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 buildings: health and wellbeing
- Smart buildings: impact of construction industry
- Smart cities: big data to improve city life
- Smart rubbish: IT and waste disposal
- Social housing: surveyors' expertise
- Solar panels: installation risks
- Sound insulation: new advances
- Sports ground safety: understanding responsibilities
- Staying clean: heat and damp
- Subsidence and old mine workings: underground dangers
- Successful cities: urban planning
- Surface repair: the costs of cutting corners
- Surge protection: household appliances
- Surveying Hong Kong: different paths
- Surveyor tech: productivity at work
- Sustainability: placemaking and social value
- Sustainability: rating systems
- Sustainability: whole life carbon
- Sustainability and real estate: lending risk
- Sustainability standards: health and wellbeing
- Sustainable drainage: surface water flood resilience
- Sustainable procurement: benefits
T
- TDD: vendor surveys
- Tech and climate: changing work
- Technology: future impact on surveying
- Technology: redefining how buildings are defined and constructed
- Technology and surveying: how to thrive in a digital future
- Terracotta building: maintenance and protection
- The circular economy: affordability and resilience
- The green office: collecting the data
- Thermal imaging: diagnosing damp
- Timber: problematic work
- Timber floors: installation and ventilation
- Traditional buildings: better treatment and understanding
- Training: benefits of internationally minded surveyors
- Transferable development rights: international applicability
- Transforming stadia: competition to community
U
- UK building stock: challenges to maintain progress
- UK energy challenges: generating power
- UK flood management: considering China's approach
- UK offshore renewables: encouraging investment
- UK zero carbon targets: retrofitting for energy efficiency
- Urban infrastructure and balancing lifestyles: Whitechapel. London project
- Urban population growth: alleivating water run-off problems
- Urban resilience: building protection
- Urban resilience: what does it mean?
V
W
- Waste management: award-winning centre
- Waste regulations: re-using materials
- Water penetration: First World War cemeteries
- Waterproof coatings: problems protecting traditional buildings
- Wildlife protection: developer incentives
- Wiring regulations: 18th edition
- Working at height: reducing the toll
- Workplace green space: biophilic design