Features archive
Infrastructure
A
- Accessibility: European focus
- Accessibility: welcoming everyone
- Achieving excellence: history and heritage
- Adjudication: natural justice, enforceability of awards and costs
- Adjudication: the paying party's rights
- Affordable housing: repairing the system
- APC competencies: Fire safety
- APC competencies: procurement and tendering
- APC competencies: sustainability
- APC competencies: works progress and quality management
- Arbitration: a new approach: Restoring arbitration
- Artificial intelligence: impact in the workplace
- Ash dieback: changing the landscape
- Asset management: dealing with uncertainty
- Asset management: Royal Mail
B
- Basements: enforcing waterproofing standards
- Bat conservation: good practice for conducting surveys
- BCIS data: cost estimates
- 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
- Biodiversity: key laws and policies
- Blockchains: development of modern financial tech and cadastres
- Building adaption: keeping pace with a dynamic real estate market
- Building assessment: computer modelling
- Building control: adopting BIM
- Building conversion: exploiting opportunities
- Building information models – A new dimension
- Building in Quality initiative: achievements
- Business rates: land and real estate
C
- Capital allowances: cash flow benefits
- Capital gains and inheritance tax: non-UK residents not exempt
- 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
- Charging infrastructure: opportunities and challenges
- Circular economy: role of facilities manager
- Cladding: strengths and weaknesses of different types
- Commercial investors: risk management in the property market
- Commercial management: major works at airports
- Commercial property: cycle storage and smart technology
- Commercial property law FAQs: double rent, expert witness, fixtures
- Commercial property law FAQs: rectification of contracts, service charge reconciliation, telecoms
- Compensating for compulsory acquisition
- Compulsory purchase powers: mandatory behaviours
- Construction: CDM roles
- 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 procurement: Asian construction market
- Construction procurement framework: ProCure22
- Construction project performance: BIM
- Construction projects: accounting for inflation
- Construction projects: learning from mistakes
- Construction resources: mineral shortages
- Contract administration: role comparisons
- Contract administration: successful project management
- Contract details: practical issues
- Contracts: agree clear contracts before commencement
- Crossrail: lifting legislative provisions
- 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
- Dilapidations: RICS dispute resolution scheme
- Dispute resolution: arbitration over other methods
- Dispute resolution: independent experts
- Documenting land: replacing traditional technologies
- Drafting technical documents: possible pitfalls
- Draft legislation: ecosystem services
- Drainage: tall buildings
- Drone surveys: challenges in desert environments
E
- Ecological surveys: avoiding development delays
- Empty houses: a national scandal?
- Empty property risks: fly-tipping, metal theft and squatting
- Energy management: network energy charges
- Environment draft: London Plan and Environment Strategy
- Equality: gender diversity and project management
- 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 safety: responsibility and liability
- Flooding: surveyors and flood risk mitigation advice
- Flood risk: planning for climate change
- Floors: reinforcing beam and block floors
- Fracking: underbalanced drilling can address concerns
G
H
- Health and safety: access to files
- Health and safety: CDM Differently
- Health and safety: controlling noise on construction sites
- 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
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
- Infrastructure: fitness for the future
- Infrastructure delivery: going digital
- Infrastructure in America: federal, state and private
- Insurance: claims against surveyors
- Insurance: dangers of underinsurance
- Intelligent asset data: barriers to adoption
- International standards: improving comparability between projects
- International standards: why are they important?
- IPMS: effect on professional practice
- isurv Infrastructure: what does the new channel offer?
J
L
M
- 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
- Mapping coastal heritage: understanding climate change impacts
- Measurement: measured building surveys - A handy device
- Mental health: support in construction
N
P
- Planning applications: potential effects on the environment
- Planning policies: implementing sustainability
- Politics and regulation: understanding the nuances
- Project costs: certainty through certification
- Project failure: lessons learnt and risk management
- Project management: agile methodology
- Project management: basic principles
- Project management: lean techniques
- Project managers: get the right apps
- Property assets: reasons to audit
- Property gains: new changes
- Proptech: how to stimulate infrastructure development
R
- Reducing costs: detecting objects
- Residential: re-using empty property
- Residential building surveyors: requirements of domestic clients
- Residential developments: issues related to the Highways Act 1980
- Retirement: winding up a practice
- RICS Africa summit: smart cities
- RICS insight: healthier space
- Rural arbitration: background to RICS guidance note
- Rural business: policy changes
S
- Schedule of services: court ruling
- Scotland's derelict sites: transforming unused land
- Security risks: essential crime prevention
- Small business rates relief: getting the right advice
- Smart buildings: health and wellbeing
- Smart cities: business plans
- Smart rubbish: IT and waste disposal
- Social value: exploring the concept
- Solar panels: installation risks
- Standard contracts: evolution of Ts and Cs
- Strategy: procurement scenarios debated
- Subsidence and old mine workings: underground dangers
- Supply chains: changing VAT
- Supply chains in construction: fulfilling all tax liabilities
- Sustainable procurement: benefits
T
- Taxation: VAT costs of building to rent
- Technology: redefining how buildings are defined and constructed
- Telecoms: legal implications of the Electronic Communications Code
- Telecoms law: new revisions
- The circular economy: affordability and resilience
- The employer's agent: what do they do?
- The modern office: predictive workplaces
- Transforming stadia: competition to community
- Trees: cases concerning damage
U
- UK building stock: challenges to maintain progress
- UK flood management: considering China's approach
- UK offshore renewables: encouraging investment
- UK zero carbon targets: retrofitting for energy efficiency
- University of Glasgow: working with surveyors
- Urban infrastructure and balancing lifestyles: Whitechapel. London project
- Urban resilience: what does it mean?
- US market: professional opportunities