This guide is intended to build on government and wider industry guidance and gives practical advice to CIAT and RICS professionals working in building design and contract administration on working as the COVID-19 lockdown measures are lifted and we work through the restart phase of recovery. It will highlight the risks at key stages in the design and construction process, identify control measures that can be adopted, and offer useful tools and advice on how the designer may mitigate COVID-19 risks.

This document is designed to remind valuers about the hierarchy of comparable evidence and thought processes needed when using less reliable or unverifiable information during COVID-19.

Read our guide to support building and facilities managers, commercial tenants and landlords through preparing to safely reopen commercial buildings