Features
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 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
- Careers: promoting a diverse talent pool
- Cash flow forecasting: adding value
- Cavity walls: fixing defects
- 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: change can be good
- Change management: costs, delays and risk
- Change management: project’s lifecycle
- Change management: safeguarding the future of our planet
- Chartered management consultancy surveyors: demand from businesses
- Chimney faults: dampness in properties
- Chimney regulations: concerns
- Chimney regulations: inconsistencies
- 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
- Clean water: supply in Tanzania
- Combustible cladding: Australia and New Zealand
- Commercial construction warranties
- Commercial management: enabling innovation
- Commercial management: major works at airports
- Commercial property law FAQs: double rent, expert witness, fixtures
- Communications: 4G roll out
- Compliance: end of line testing
- Concurrent delay
- Conflict and disputes
- Connectivity: importance of sustainable digital infrastructure
- Consortium of European Building Control
- Constructing excellence
- Construction: acceleration
- Construction: adjudicator jurisdiction
- Construction: asbestos in soil
- Construction: CDM roles
- Construction: consultant appointments
- Construction: copper
- Construction: cost management
- Construction: debt management
- Construction: defective works
- Construction: defining completion
- Construction: delivering growth
- Construction: design costs
- Construction: Edinburgh's affordable housing
- Construction: housebuilding
- Construction: improving innovation
- Construction: instruction to omit works
- Construction: letters of intent
- Construction: modular classrooms
- Construction: new era of training
- Construction: offsite housing
- Construction: prefabrication
- Construction: public infrastructure
- Construction: RICS legal helpline
- Construction: risk management
- Construction: subterranean house
- Construction: tenders
- Construction Act: payment practices
- Construction Act: the waiting game
- 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: 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: contract administration
- Construction contracts: defects
- Construction contracts: NEC3
- Construction contracts: performance security
- Construction contracts: project manager's role and responsibilities
- Construction contracts: sectional completion
- Construction cost planning: BCIS advice
- Construction costs: rise in costs in Hong Kong
- Construction debt: true culprits
- Construction FAQs: letters of intent
- Construction fixings: failures and responsibilities
- Construction health and safety: benefits of lag and lead metrics
- Construction health and safety: risk management
- Construction industry progress: factors crucial for success
- Construction law myths ... 'time at large'
- Construction law myths ... a CA is the same as an EA
- Construction law myths ... concurrent delay
- Construction law myths ... duress
- Construction law myths ... force majeure
- Construction law myths ... practical completion
- Construction law myths ... reasonable skill and care
- Construction measurement: harmonising definitions globally
- Construction policy: driving economic policy
- Construction procurement: Asian construction market
- Construction procurement framework: ProCure22
- Construction Products Regulations: manufacturer requirements
- Construction project performance: BIM
- Construction projects: accounting for inflation
- Construction projects: learning from mistakes
- Construction projects: procurement methods
- Construction recruitment: retaining young talent
- Construction sector: education and training
- Contesting lease renewals: when would a surveyor be involved?
- Contingency fees: understanding the implications
- Contract administration: a contractor's view
- Contract administration: an Australian perspective
- Contract administration: building surveyors
- Contract administration: common pitfalls
- Contract administration: contract types
- Contract administration: design responsibilities
- Contract administration: dispute resolution
- Contract administration: letter of intent
- Contract administration: payment terms
- Contract administration: role comparisons
- Contract administration: successful project management
- Contract administration: time issues
- Contract administration: trips and traps
- Contract details: practical issues
- Contract law: help for small businesses
- Contract law: supplementing resources
- Contractors' status: legal issues
- Contracts: agree clear contracts before commencement
- Contracts: collaboration and communication
- Contracts: Comparative Construction guidance note
- Contracts: handling varations under JCT11
- Contracts: JCT Subcontracts
- Contracts: notices
- Contracts: trends
- Contract variations: clear terms from the outset
- Coordinating construction: ensuring safety
- Corporate manslaughter: first case
- Corporate manslaughter: health and safety responsibilities
- Cost analysis and benchmarking
- Cost control: open book accounting
- Cost management: central role of the quantity surveyor
- Cost management: holistic cost information system
- Cost planning: QS processes
- Cost planning: rail works
- Cost planning: RICS NRM and best practice
- CPD: quantity surveyors and project managers
- 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
- Geospatial imaging technology: historic environment
- Global construction: 2018 snapshot
- Global construction: cross laminated timber
- Global warming: should we be worried?
- Green deal: progress so far
- Green Guide: changing field of sports grounds
- Green roofs: the business case
- Ground-source systems: correct installation
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
- 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
- NEC4: reviewing the changes
- Negligence: liability
- Negligence: liability timescale
- Negotiation and construction: improving skills and upholding ethics
- Neighbour disputes: importance of negotiating
- Neighbour disputes: mediation
- Neighbourly matters: basement extension works
- Neighbourly matters: daylighting and sunlighting
- Neighbourly matters: fees
- Neighbourly matters: Party Wall Act interpretation
- Neighbourly matters: security for expenses
- Neighbourly matters: subsidence repair costs
- New build property: legal update
- New homes: homeowner feedback on noise
- New settlements: RICS policy
- NRM 3: implications for China and Hong Kong
- NRM3: overview
- NRM3: political impact
- NRM: review
- Nuisance: applying old rules to modern cases
O
- Off-site concrete: a reliable alternative
- Off-site construction: modular methods
- Off-site construction: penthouse extensions
- Off-site manufacture: potential benefit
- Off-site manufacturing: success for projects
- Offsite construction: infrastructure projects
- Olympics legacy: future of the 2012 venues
- Operators and landowners: getting to 5G
- Organic farming: reducing tillage
- Overage agreements: careful management
- Overage agreements: recent cases
P
- Party wall disputes: the third surveyor
- Party walls: an avoidable costly award
- Party walls: implications of recent case
- Pathology and building surveyors: key legal cases
- 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 extensions: radon risk
- Property gains: new changes
- Property in politics: impact on party conferences
- Property in Politics: RICS policy
- Property in Politics: transforming UK construction
- Property in politics: what comes next?
- 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
- Public procurement
R
- Rail infrastructure: cost reduction
- Rail infrastructure: management and delivery
- Rail infrastructure: risk management
- Real estate: place making
- Real estate market: development finance
- Recruitment and skills: increasing competition
- Recyled materials: reinforced wall formwork systems
- Redevelopment: Birmingham New Street Station
- Reform of private rights to light
- Refurbishments: partial occupation
- Regulation 9 exemption
- Regulation: dealing with debt
- Renewable energy: solar
- Rental income: more investment
- Research: contract sum and final account
- Residential: major changes to taxation of property
- Residential: rights of light complexities
- Residential building surveyors: requirements of domestic clients
- Residential construction: off-site manufacture
- Residential investors and developers: tax legislation
- Residential property: Assigned Risks Pool
- Residential property: housing supply
- Residential property owned by companies: lower tax charge thresholds
- Responsibility: benefits of a diverse workplace
- Restoration: Hillingdon's leisure complex
- Rethinking emergency: trust and resilience
- Retirement: winding up a practice
- Revising competencies: a new road
- RICS Africa summit: smart cities
- RICS guidance: GI for surveyors
- RICS insight: healthier space
- RICS property measurement: changes in the 2nd edition
- RICS residential policy: property prices and the rental market
- Rights of light: compensation
- Rights of light: determining infringements
- Rights of light: developments subsequent to the RICS guidance note
- Rights of light: issues raised in case law
- Rights of light: the developer's dilemma
- Rights of light: updating calculations
- Rights of light insurance: property development
- Rural arbitration: background to RICS guidance note
S
- Schedule of services: court ruling
- Schools: leaner, greener, meaner
- Scotland: building design
- Scottish building regulations
- Security: creating secure, well-designed buildings
- Security: risk management
- Security risks: essential crime prevention
- Sharing data: costs and benefits
- Sickness absence procedures: government changes
- Sinkholes: checking records before development starts
- Small business rates relief: getting the right advice
- Smart buildings: health and wellbeing
- Smart buildings: impact of construction industry
- Smart buildings: offering revenue streams and a competitive advantage
- Smart cities: business plans
- Smart cities: data sharing
- Smart cities: planning and development
- Smart cities: Virtual NewcastleGateshead
- 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
- Social value: exploring the concept
- Soil: impact on daily life
- Sound insulation: new advances
- Sound regulations: pre-tested party wall and floor design patterns
- Specification: Housing Standards Review
- Sports grounds: guidance
- Sports ground safety: understanding responsibilities
- Stakeholder engagement: RICS guidance
- Standard contracts: evolution of Ts and Cs
- Staying clean: heat and damp
- Storm damage: dangerous structures
- Strategy: procurement scenarios debated
- Stress in construction: ignoring dangers to health
- Stress in construction: more effective reporting framework
- Stress in construction: study results
- Sub-prime lending: PII implications
- Subsidence: insurance claims
- Successful business diversification for surveyors
- Supply chain management: importance of managing data
- Supply chain management: thriving in competitive markets
- Supply chain management: thriving in today’s market
- Supply chain management: understanding local markets
- Supply chains: changing VAT
- Supply chains in construction: fulfilling all tax liabilities
- Surveying technology
- Surveyor safety: working alone
- Surveys: case studies
- Surveys: loft conversions
- Sustainability: EU targets
- Sustainability: garden cities
- Sustainability: heat pumps
- Sustainability: property taxes
- Sustainability: reducing construction waste
- Sustainability: taxation
- Sustainability in Australia: exploring measurement in buildings
- Sustainable construction: funding
- Sustainable construction: Wolseley UK Ltd
- Sustainable land management: short-term tenancies
- Sustainable procurement: benefits
T
- Target cost and cost reimbursable contracts: construction share tips
- Target cost and cost reimbursable contracts: how do they work?
- Target cost and cost reimbursable contracts: the need for clarity
- 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
- Tax implications: guidelines
- Technical briefing notes: Building Regulations
- Technical briefing notes: property repairs
- Technology: redefining how buildings are defined and constructed
- Technology: using tablets
- Technology infrastructure: broadband and construction projects
- The Bribery Act: implementing anti-corruption procedures
- The circular economy: affordability and resilience
- The employer's agent: what do they do?
- The modern office: predictive workplaces
- Timber floors: installation and ventilation
- Timber floors and masonry walls
- Townhouse side extension: building control involvement
- Townhouse side extension: making plans
- Townhouse side extension: progress
- Transforming stadia: competition to community
U
V
W
- Warranties and guarantees: ensuring they offer adequate protection
- 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
- Working at height: reducing the toll
- Workplace green space: biophilic design