This research investigates an automated mathematical approach known as ‘surface matching’, which offers significant potential for improving the accuracy of ASTER (Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection radiometer) dat...
This study examines the decision making in the planning and delivery of mega rail infrastructure projects in the UK, China and India with a focus on railway transport hub development and their surrounding environments.
This report presents the results of a one-month Chinese Real Estate Investment Trust Questionnaire survey conducted by INSITE Corporate Research Centre and RICS. The survey results indicate that although the prospects of REITs in ...
This study investigates the practice of stakeholder integration in the planning and development of infrastructure projects. Adopting Social Network Analysis (SNA) as the research method, we examined two large infrastructure tunnel...
This regenerative landscapes report highlights the need and the means for rebuilding carrying capacity across rural, urban and other cultural landscapes, with a significant emphasis on water.
The financing of real estate development in regeneration areas across Europe has evolved to take into account the realities of the new economic environment following the 2007-08 global economic crisis. This research aims to provid...
This research was commissioned to help understand the potential role RICS could play in Sub-Saharan Africa and in the land and resources sector by assessing the potential future demand for services of the built environment profess...
This report examines the role of PPPs within the confined of the global infrastructure investment challenge, in what has been a radically transformed financial and economic paradigm (post GFC). Five key PPP markets are examined: A...
Outsourcing Construction Professional Services RICS
Professional planning of infrastructure development today must take into account connections and flows between cities at local to global geographical scales which are the outcome of a range of actions taken by private and public s...
In this research project, by collecting data from a GPS receiver mounted on the Snowdon Mountain Railway train, different GPS tropospheric mitigation approaches were evaluated in order to improve airborne kinematic GPS positioning...