Features archive
Construction
A
- Accessibility: European focus
- Accessibility: impact of Part M
- Accessibility: welcoming everyone
- Achieving excellence: history and heritage
- Adjudication: natural justice, enforceability of awards and costs
- Adjudication: the paying party's rights
- APC competencies: building control pathway revised
- APC competencies: design and specification
- APC competencies: Fire safety
- APC competencies: procurement and tendering
- APC competencies: quantification and costing of construction works
- APC competencies: sustainability
- APC competencies: works progress and quality management
- Approved documents: adapting for digital
- Arbitration: a new approach: Restoring arbitration
- Artificial intelligence: impact in the workplace
- Asbestos: reducing risk in soil on brownfield sites
- Asset management: dealing with uncertainty
- Asset management: embedding aspirations
- Avoiding disputes: resolution procedures at the outset
B
- BCIS inflation indices: mitigating risk on projects
- Better design: integrating fire engineering
- BIM: accuracy and Level 2 BIM
- BIM: challenges of geo-enabling
- BIM: cyber defence measures required
- BIM: first legal case
- BIM: implications for refurbishments
- BIM: land administration challenges
- BIM: risk management during a project’s life cycle
- BIM: technology advances
- BIM: UK progress
- BIM adoption: 2017 research
- BIM and building surveying: laser scanning
- BIM and commercial property: opportunities for property professionals
- BIM for building surveyors: background to new guidance note
- Blockchains: development of modern financial tech and cadastres
- Blockchain technology: property transactions
- Boundaries: protocol for dealing with disputes
- Brexit: outlook for construction industry
- Building adaption: keeping pace with a dynamic real estate market
- 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: 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 defects and responsibility: Scottish schools
- Building evacuations: means and alternatives
- Building information models – A new dimension
- Building pathology: identifying structural movement
- Building Regulations: condensation
- 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 surveying: vapour control
- Business rates: land and real estate
- Business rates: options for change
C
- Capital allowances: cash flow benefits
- Capital gains and inheritance tax: non-UK residents not exempt
- Careers: promoting a diverse talent pool
- Cavity walls: fixing defects
- CDM Regulations: issues raised by the 2015 changes
- CDM Regulations: what do the 2015 changes mean?
- Change management
- Change management: change can be good
- Change management: costs, delays and risk
- Change management: project’s lifecycle
- Change management: safeguarding the future of our planet
- Circular economy: role of facilities manager
- Cladding: strengths and weaknesses of different types
- Combustible cladding: Australia and New Zealand
- Commercial management: enabling innovation
- Commercial management: major works at airports
- Commercial property law FAQs: double rent, expert witness, fixtures
- Connectivity: importance of sustainable digital infrastructure
- Consortium of European Building Control
- Construction: asbestos in soil
- Construction: CDM roles
- Construction: improving innovation
- Construction and 3D printing: application in the industry
- Construction and demolition: controlling noise
- Construction bonds: managing risks
- Construction case law: Building Regulations and giving expert advice
- Construction case law: liabilities of project monitors and construction professionals
- Construction case law: payment notices
- Construction contingencies in infrastructure
- Construction debt: true culprits
- Construction FAQs: letters of intent
- Construction industry progress: factors crucial for success
- Construction law myths ... 'time at large'
- Construction measurement
- Construction procurement: Asian construction market
- Construction procurement framework: ProCure22
- Construction project performance: BIM
- Construction projects: accounting for inflation
- Construction projects: learning from mistakes
- Contesting lease renewals: when would a surveyor be involved?
- Contract administration: role comparisons
- Contract administration: successful project management
- Contract details: practical issues
- Contractors' status: legal issues
- Contracts: agree clear contracts before commencement
- Contracts: collaboration and communication
- Contracts: handling varations under JCT11
- Coordinating construction: ensuring safety
- Cost planning: rail works
- Cyber attacks: mitigating risks in the property and construction sector
D
- Data in real estate: a valuable asset
- Data management: improving project performance
- Data standards: linking RICS and proptech
- Data strategy: understanding infratech
- Defective premises: key cases
- Defects: cladding systems
- Defects: complying with revised regulation
- Design and build contracts: poor management?
- Design economics and cost planning
- Development: cases on restrictive covenants
- Dispute resolution: arbitration over other methods
- Diverse workforce: making it a reality
- Diversity: construction industry
- Diversity and inclusion: benefits
- Drafting technical documents: possible pitfalls
- Drainage: tall buildings
E
- Earthquakes: poorly designed and constructed buildings
- Education and training: built environment students
- Employer's agent: clarifying the role
- Employment: liability for harassment
- Empty property risks: fly-tipping, metal theft and squatting
- Energy efficiency: building a home to the Passivhaus standard
- Energy efficiency: improvements in existing buildings
- Energy performance: improving the Standard Assessment Procedure
- Energy performance: initiative for new homes
- 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
- Evolving business: a fresh approach
F
- Facilities management: Single-use plastics
- FIDIC: are changes a help or a hindrance?
- FIDIC: changes to the Rainbow Suite
- Fire detection professionals: new qualifications
- Fire engineering: common problems
- Fire inspection: defect identification
- Fire protection: full-frame structural fire engineering
- Fire safety: assumptions made in construction of buildings
- Fire safety: benefits of sprinklers in schools
- Fire safety: ensuring structural resilience
- Fire safety: high-rise fires in United Arab Emirates
- Fire safety: improvements for Approved Document B
- Fire safety: open plan flats
- Fire safety: responsibility and liability
- Fire safety: room by room
- Fixtures and fittings: composition and risk
- Floors: reinforcing beam and block floors
G
H
- Heads of terms: potential pitfalls
- 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: threat of urban gulls
- 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
- Historic buildings: laser scanning developments
- Housing construction
I
- ICMS: combining technological advances with international standards
- ICMS: update on progress
- Inclusive design: defective design
- Inclusive design: overlooked items in new developments
- Inclusive design and accessibility: can more be done?
- Industrial simulation: developing skills
- Inflation indices: Crossrail’s procurement strategy
- Inflation indices: new price adjustment formulae
- Infrastructure: fitness for the future
- Insulation issues: what to do?
- Insurance: claims against surveyors
- Insurance: dangers of underinsurance
- Insurance: is your business sufficiently insured?
- Insurance Act: understanding the changes fully
- Intelligent asset data: barriers to adoption
- Interest: expansive policy
- International Construction Measurement Standards: global benefits
- International Construction Measurement Standards: small businesses
- International Land Measurement Standards: challenges for land transaction
- International Land Measurement Standards: fit for purpose
- International standards: improving comparability between projects
- International standards: why are they important?
- IPMS: effect on professional practice
J
L
- Land measurement: adopting a global standard
- Land measurement: creating consistency
- Land reform: changes in Scotland
- Legal questions: additional work
- Legal questions: claiming loss and expense
- Legal questions: contractor claiming extra costs
- Legal questions: expert witnesses and conflicts of interest
- Legal questions: interim payments
- Legal questions: liquidated damages
- Legal questions: rectification to meet specified standards
- Legal questions: rights of light
- Legal questions: status of the defects list
- Living with dementia: best practice
- Logistics property market: changes
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
- Measurement: measured building surveys - A handy device
- Measurement and monitoring: refurbishment at Trinity College
- Mental health: support in construction
- MMC: progress and dangers
- MMC: quality assurance
- Modernise or die: the industry's future
- Modular construction: embracing off-site construction
- Modular construction: social housing
N
O
P
- Party wall disputes: the third surveyor
- Party walls: an avoidable costly award
- Party walls: implications of recent case
- Payment: is a standard needed?
- Payment notices: key issues and pitfalls
- Payment retention: impact and alternatives
- Planning challenging in London: 3D interactive model
- Politics and regulation: understanding the nuances
- Professional ethics: countering corruption
- Project costs: certainty through certification
- Project failure: lessons learnt and risk management
- Project management: agile methodology
- Project management: basic principles
- Project management: lean techniques
- Property gains: new changes
- Proptech: how to stimulate infrastructure development
R
- Recruitment and skills: increasing competition
- Residential: rights of light complexities
- Residential building surveyors: requirements of domestic clients
- Residential construction: off-site manufacture
- Responsibility: benefits of a diverse workplace
- Rethinking emergency: trust and resilience
- Retirement: winding up a practice
- Revising competencies: a new road
- RICS Africa summit: smart cities
- RICS insight: healthier space
- RICS property measurement: changes in the 2nd edition
- 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 insurance: property development
- Rural arbitration: background to RICS guidance note
S
- Schedule of services: court ruling
- Security: creating secure, well-designed buildings
- Security risks: essential crime prevention
- Sharing data: costs and benefits
- Small business rates relief: getting the right advice
- Smart buildings: health and wellbeing
- Smart buildings: impact of construction industry
- Smart cities: business plans
- Smart rubbish: IT and waste disposal
- Social value: exploring the concept
- Soil: impact on daily life
- Sound insulation: new advances
- Sports ground safety: understanding responsibilities
- Standard contracts: evolution of Ts and Cs
- Staying clean: heat and damp
- Strategy: procurement scenarios debated
- Sub-prime lending: PII implications
- Supply chains: changing VAT
- Supply chains in construction: fulfilling all tax liabilities
- Sustainability: whole life carbon
- Sustainable procurement: benefits
T
- Tax: rules for profits from trading in or developing land
- Tax and real-estate structures: restrictions on interest deductibility
- Taxation: VAT costs of building to rent
- 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
- Timber floors: installation and ventilation
- Transforming stadia: competition to community
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V