APC technical competencies
RICS has drawn up the technical competencies in a generic way so that they can be applied to different areas of practice and geographical locations. It is important that you interpret them within the context of your own area of practice or specialism and geography.
Each competency is defined at 3 levels of attainment. You must reach the required level in a logical progression and in successive stages.
- Level 1 knowledge and understanding
- Level 2 application of knowledge and understanding
- Level 3 reasoned advice and depth of technical knowledge.
APC technical competencies
- Access and rights over land
- Agriculture
- Asset identification and assessment
- Asset management
- Auctioneering
- Big data
- Building control inspections
- Building information modelling (BIM) management
- Building pathology
- Business alignment
- Business case
- Cadastre and land administration
- Capital allowances
- Capital taxation
- Change management
- Commercial management
- Compulsory purchase and compensation
- Conservation and restoration
- Construction technology and environmental services
- Consultancy services
- Contaminated land
- Contract administration
- Contract practice
- Corporate finance
- Corporate recovery and insolvency
- Cost prediction and analysis
- Cross cultural awareness in a global business
- Design and specification
- Design economics and cost planning
- Development appraisals
- Development/project briefs
- Due diligence
- Economic development
- Energy and renewable resources
- Engineering science and technology
- Engineering surveying
- Environmental analysis
- Environmental assessment
- Environmental audit (and monitoring)
- Environmental management
- Environmental science and processes
- Financial modelling
- Fire safety
- Forestry and woodland management
- Geodesy
- GIS (geographical information systems)
- Ground engineering and subsidence
- Housing maintenance, repairs and improvements
- Housing management and policy
- Housing strategy and provision
- Hydrographic surveying
- Indirect investment vehicles
- Infrastructure technology, systems engineering and materials science
- Inspection
- Insurance
- Investment management (including fund and portfolio management)
- Land use and diversification
- Landlord and tenant
- Leading projects, people and teams
- Leasing and letting
- Legal/regulatory compliance
- Loan security valuation
- Local taxation/assessment
- Maintenance management
- Management and regeneration of the built environment
- Management of the natural environment and landscape
- Managing projects
- Market appraisal
- Masterplanning and urban design
- Measurement
- Minerals management
- Object identification
- Open data
- Performance management
- Planning and development management
- Procurement and tendering
- Programming and planning
- Project controls
- Project feasibility analysis
- Property funding and finance
- Property management
- Purchase and sale
- Quantification and costing
- Quantification, costing and price analysis
- Remote sensing and photogrammetry
- Research methodologies and techniques
- Risk management
- Smart cities and intelligent buildings
- Spatial planning policy and infrastructure
- Stakeholder management
- Strategic real estate consultancy
- Supplier management
- Surveying and mapping
- Surveying land and sea
- Taxation
- Use of the marine environment
- Valuation
- Valuation of businesses and intangible assets
- Valuation reporting and research
- Waste management
- Works progress and quality management
- Workspace strategy