Features archive
Sustainability
A
- Achieving excellence: history and heritage
- Agricultural land: ownership in Europe
- Agricultural management: managing farmland
- Air pollution: monitoring and improvement
- APC competencies: sustainability
- Approved documents: adapting for digital
- Artificial intelligence: impact in the workplace
- Asbestos: reducing risk in soil on brownfield sites
B
- Back to our roots: our dependence on land
- Bat conservation: good practice for conducting surveys
- BIM: land administration challenges
- Biodiversity: key laws and policies
- Biodiversity funding: new models
- Brexit: RICS UK rural land priorities
- British homes: new energy efficiency standards
- Brownfield redevelopment: preventing delays
- Building assessment: computer modelling
- Building conservation: conservation skills
- Building control: BBA certification
- Building control in Australia: energy performance
- Building control in Australia: extreme weather
- Building control in Australia: recording data
- Building pathology: identifying structural movement
- Building regulations: ensuring compliance
- Building Regulations: policing zero carbon policies
- Building surveying and drones: developing technology
- Built environment: aiming higher
C
- Change management: safeguarding the future of our planet
- Churches: cutting carbon emissions
- Circular economy: role of facilities manager
- Cladding: strengths and weaknesses of different types
- Climate change: challenges facing built environment professionals
- Commercial energy ratings: technical review
- Commercial EPCs: improving a building's energy rating
- Commercial property management: health and wellbeing
- Commercial property managers: sustainable requirements
- Commercial sustainability: green bonds
- Compensating for compulsory acquisition
- Construction: asbestos in soil
- Construction resources: mineral shortages
- Coordinating construction: ensuring safety
- Coral: a natural approach
D
- Damp in basements: ground condition surveys
- Deer herding: history and economics
- DEFRA: Ben Goldsmith interview
- Development: cases on restrictive covenants
- Diverse workforce: making it a reality
- Documenting land: replacing traditional technologies
- Draft legislation: ecosystem services
- Drone surveys: challenges in desert environments
E
- Ecological surveys: avoiding development delays
- Ecosystem services: commerical deals for natural capital
- 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: first energy-positive building renovation
- 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 performance: improving the Standard Assessment Procedure
- Environmental data: collection and assessments
- Environmental monitoring: using drones
- Environment draft: London Plan and Environment Strategy
- European research: energy efficiency
F
- Facilities management: being strategic
- Facilities management: Single-use plastics
- Flood defence: building quality and construction
- Flooding: adapting to the rising challenge
- Flooding: changing land-use practices
- Flooding: Earth Observation satellites
- 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
- Fracking: underbalanced drilling can address concerns
G
- Giant hogweed: regulations to help battle invasive weeds
- Global construction: 2018 snapshot
- Grant submissions: automated validation
- Green infrastructure: projects around London
- Green leases: learning from Australia
- Green roofs: improving mental health
- Ground-source systems: correct installation
- Growth: economic and environmental
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- Land administration: quick and affordable security of tenure
- Land and investment: improving access in low-income countries
- Land governance: 2030 goals
- Land management: improving biodiversity
- Land matching in England
- Land measurement: creating consistency
- Land valuation systems: land rights
- Legal questions: buying unregistered land
- Licensing protected species: ending exclusion
- Logistics property market: changes
M
- Mapping and geographic data: harnessing solar energy
- Mapping coastal heritage: understanding climate change impacts
- 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
- Mineral ownership: overview
- Minerals: past and future UK trends
- 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
N
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- Remote satellites: monitoring and defence
- Remote sensing technology: monitoring ground movement in London
- Renewable energy
- Renewable energy: changes to government subsidies
- Residential: summarising RICS policy
- Residential construction: off-site manufacture
- Residential EPCs: impact of new requirements
- Rewilding projects
- RICS insight: healthier space
- RICS regulation: fostering confidence
- RICS residential policy: property prices and the rental market
- RSPB: asset valuation
- Rural: development research
- Rural: encouraging responsible farming practices
- Rural business: policy changes
S
- Scotland's derelict sites: transforming unused land
- Scottish housing: challenges for refurbishment
- Scottish rural issues:land use in the uplands
- Shale gas: possible environmental impacts and risk
- SKA: reducing risk and increasing success on a project
- Ska rating: University College London
- 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
- Soil, air, water: developments and opportunities
- Soil: impact on daily life
- Staying clean: heat and damp
- Subsidence and old mine workings: underground dangers
- Surveying in Guyana: traditional techniques
- 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
- Sustainable refurbishment: Pinnacle House
T
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- UK building stock: challenges to maintain progress
- UK energy challenges: generating power
- UK flood management: considering China's approach
- UK minerals strategy: Meeting demand
- UK offshore renewables: encouraging investment
- UK zero carbon targets: retrofitting for energy efficiency
- Urban land: ecosystem services
- Urban population growth: alleivating water run-off problems
- Urban resilience: building protection
- Urban resilience: what does it mean?
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