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- How will proptech drive a step change in Facilities Management?
- Why is the quality of data so important in real estate?
- How to create a digital culture in a construction firm
- How will data and technology deliver solutions in the built environment?
- Preventing cyber crime - what your strategy should look like
- Digitalisation in surveying - six professionals give their view
- Welcome to the age of 5G
- Opinion: President's Column
- Opinion: Chris Brooke FRICS
- How to: look after your data
- Race against the machine
- Let me introduce: mass appraisal
- The built environment conundrum: reasons to be cheerful
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- Build back better: Is commercial property going green?
- Urbanisation and the built environment: Five defining facts
- COVID-19: Driving sustainable change
- Life after lockdown part 4: How lockdown has affected energy security
- Sustaining momentum in climate change action in the face of COVID-19
- The global emergency that was already with us
- What if cities start to run out of water?
- The Buy Clean California Act - What can we learn from it?
- What can be done to prevent failures in the mining industry?
- Using plant-based polymers as building materials?
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- Construction Technology: Building the future in a Mirror World
- How can the industry be more inclusive of LGBTQ+ people?
- What is the future of skills in construction?
- What will industrialised construction mean for the future of work?
- Thriving through change – advice for early-career professionals
- The future of SMEs
- How to manage a team working remotely
- Why Diversity and Inclusion is crucial in the built environment sector
- How to adapt to working at home
- How workplace skills could adapt for new technology
- How one surveyor has trailblazed her way through the property sector by 25
- Can you change your surveying sector?
- Moving abroad for a new job? Here's how to do it
- Introducing...strategic facilities management
- Mentoring can support diversity goals
- From managers to leaders
- Way to go: attracting the next generation of construction employees
- In the Construction Industry, It’s About the People
- Investment in people is transforming the construction sector
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- RICS Asia-Pacific commercial property sector insights Q2 2022
- What do our industry leaders say about the construction markets in Asia-Pacific?
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- Letting waste sites: an insight into Network Rail policy
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- Sustainability rises up the agenda in the UK Facilities Management Sector
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- Developing a global standard for fire reporting
- The age of Unreal estate
- Measuring social value in infrastructure: Lessons from the public sector
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- The Future of BIM: Digital transformation in the UK construction and infrastructure sector
- Blockchain – an emerging opportunity for surveyors?
- Valuation of flexible workspace
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- How can 3D visualisation support planning protection for heritage sites
- How can technology support implementation of the Building Safety Act
- How data and technology can be used to visualize portfolio management
- How will data and technology drive the evolution of the quantity surveyor's role?
- How data and technology can be used to support leaseholders with the Right to Manage process?
- How can data and technology can be used to address the net zero challenge?
- What impact will the telecoms Digital Switchover have for social housing in the UK?
- Using data and AI to analyse locations for real estate development and investment
- How does the RICS Data Standard support data transfer and application development
- How data and technology can improve the tenant experience
- The value of data standards to the real estate sector
- Using data and technology in the Swiss and German real estate markets
- Supporting large scale residential retrofit projects in the social housing sector.
- Life cycle assessment tools driving down energy usage and emissions
- The risks of an email account attack and how best to prevent them
- The digitization of real estate
- How open-source data can improve the planning process
- The impact of data and technology on the UK residential agency sector
- The value of trusted data as part of the land due diligence process.
- The application of data and technology by local authority planning departments.
- The use of data and technology across the AEC sector in China
- The role of automation in the commercial property valuation process
- A beginners guide to proptech terms
- Big banks are moving away from client accounts but there are options
- See how drones and data are combining to create powerful data sets
- Harnessing the power of project history data analytics
- July highlights in data and technology
- Ten ways surveyors could be targeted in cyber attacks
- BIM combined with powerful tech is making construction sites smarter
- Portals are not enough for Property Managers. People make the difference
- June highlights in data and technology
- Cloud based solutions and common data environments are aiding collaboration
- The rise of data and technology in the UK residential sector
- How trickle down tech is benefiting SME's
- How the right CRM can help built environment professionals
- How data supports the management of property risk for lenders and insurers
- The benefits of tech developed by surveyors along with technical experts
- Innovation and agility at the forefront of proptech in China
- Tech solutions reducing costs and increasing accessibility in rental market
- The effects of data on sustainability, ESG, net zero and operational costs
- Current proptech trends in 2022
- Remote wireless infrastructure makes worksites safer and more efficient
- May proptech Highlights
- Online property auctions still have huge benefits post-pandemic
- The right PropTech solution supports letting agents, landlords and tenants
- Smart flexible spaces, ESG, and implementing appropriate tech solutions
- The difference between electronic documents and true digital documents
- Commercial Real Estate can learn from Capital Markets data use
- The affect of data and technology on the Sub-Saharan real estate market
- Quality assurance data in the short-term rental market
- April Highlights
- Panel discussion-Looking at A.I. ethics and governance from a risk mind set
- How data, technology, and gaming engines can help overcome obstacles
- New and current cybersecurity threats to your firm
- Early integration of ESG and Wellbeing principles helps people and property
- The importance of streamlined data in sustainable construction
- The opportunity to improve quality assurance process in construction
- BIM, 2D drawings and accessible lidar are only the beginning
- Tech Partner Programme March Retrospective
- Can 'logic' replace lawyers in contract workflows?
- Is tech right for your practice, and how are these solutions developed?
- How the rise of modern construction methods is affecting the supply chain
- AI can optimise pre-construction and construction stages of major projects
- Proptech trends to be aware of for 2022
- Property Managers may need to change their approach to cyber security
- Technology is making surveyors faster and more responsive for their clients
- Data shared is a problem halved in cost management and project controls
- Improving energy performance in both commercial and residential properties
- Smarter Preconstruction and construction scheduling powered by AI.
- Technology and data are enabling the adoption of IBOS and ESG
- Developing a digital framework supporting IVS and RICS Redbook
- Reduced costs and trouble with variations through smart management systems
- Can digital Identification systems speed up transactions and reduce fraud?
- Data collection and asset management is being improved through AI
- 3D City Maps help planning approvals, right to light, and Hollywood movies
- January Highlights
- How A.I. is helping retrofit new power options to older building
- AI is creating intelligent ways of working in infrastructure projects
- 'How soon can we move in?' - Digitisation is already streamlining leasing
- 'Brilliant Basics' and high quality data in Commercial Real Estate
- Can cloud-stored data present additional risks to your business?
- Tech Case Study- How thermal imaging impacted the DORIC project of Aberdeen
- Emerging rural land data sources support biodiversity and local planning
- December Highlights
- Can old stock buildings become high performing?
- 3D scanning buildings; old and new
- 'Best of breed' integrations in proptech and fintech solution
- Aggregated land data helps RICS professionals save time
- November highlights
- 'Software As A Service' can help Facility Managers structure data and work
- The adoption of property auctions in our digital age
- Automation give RICS professionals time to focus on the important things
- Powerful machine learning and big data used in Commercial Real Estate
- Construction Design Management, Quantity Surveying, and digital compliance
- How RICS professionals are involved in digitising the built environment
- Tech is connecting homebuyers, and built environment professionals
- How automating documents gives Real Estate professionals time to add value?
- Property Passports and Digital twins - Is there a difference?
- How data and technology are helping real estate professionals meet their challenges head on
- Proptech from a global and regional perspective
- Property professionals in all sized firms need to be aware of cyber threats
- The Netherlands is already a working model of the digitalisation of property
- Is short term rental the new long term norm.
- Is Peer-to-Peer lending the future of commercial finance?
- How Commercial property managers are coaxing tenants back after Covid
- Tech Partner Programme talk with Technology Blueprint
- Digital twins are not just for new builds
- Tech Partner Programme talk with PropTech for Good
- Tech Partner Programme talk with KATE Innovations pt3
- How Quality ratings are leading to improved asset management plans
- Putting on your thinking hats to digitise a physical construction site.
- Performance Gaps in FM and how data and technology are supporting.
- The ins and outs, pros and cons, of Automated Valuation Models
- The Landscape of proptech. Past, present and future.
- First steps on the digitisation journey
- Data, technology and the UK letting market in 2021
- October Highlights
- Tech Partner Programme talk with Epic Games Pt 2
- Are audits and governance the keys to trusting algorithms?
- What is ‘Hedonic Valuation’ and how does it factor into Automatic Valuation Models?
- Thermal imaging tech is helping properties become more energy efficient.
- How physical inspections by virtual methods are helping in today’s climate.
- How Proptech and Lawtech intersect at the Golden Thread
- Appetite and opportunities: The digitalisation of the built environment
- Why tech will not replace valuation professionals.
- How one company is applying tech to measurement
- How local councils are benefiting from digital transformation.
- The future of conveyancing is digital
- Gaming wins and digital twins - The influence of gaming on the digitisation of the built environment.
- AI in Valuation and Property Passports
- Quantity Surveying, AI and Machine Learning
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