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The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has launched a global competition calling on young people to come up with new ideas to find the best solutions to help Glasgow tackle its high levels of homelessness. Glasgow, Manchester and London are among 24 global cities chosen for the competit

Charles Craigie Marwick The Lands Tribunal for Scotland (LTS) has announced the appointment of Charles Craigie Marwick BSc (Hons) FRICS as its new surveyor member in succession to the late Douglas Gillespie.

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has joined forces with property industry charity LandAid to launch a campaign to deliver more bed spaces for homeless people in Scotland during winter. As part of RICS’s 150th anniversary in 2018, the campaign known as Pledge150 will see RICS - a

Workloads in the UK construction and infrastructure sectors continued to rise moderately in the third quarter of 2017 but skills shortages are once again impacting the industry, according to the Royal Institute for Chartered Surveyors (RICS). Around 22% more respondents to the latest RICS UK Constru

A CGI of the new office development at New Waverley A project to maintain and improving key transport links for communities in the Inner Hebrides and the regeneration of a previously neglected corner of Edinburgh’s Old Town Conservation Area have scooped the Project of the Year titles in the Infra

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has launched a campaign to celebrate and commemorate the outstanding contributions the surveying profession has made to shaping Scotland’s built and natural environment over the past 150 years. As RICS celebrates its 150th anniversary in 2018, th

Sir Michael Burton Sir Michael Burton, a Judge of the High Court of England and Wales from 1998–2016, and the President of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, has been appointed chair of the RICS Conduct and Appeal Committee.

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has successfully recruited a new cohort of lawyers to its construction adjudicator panel. Shona Frame (CMS Cameron McKenna LLP), Richard Silver (Silver Shemmings LLP), Brandon Malone (Brandon Malone & Co), Peter Aeberli (3 Paper Buildings), Ken

A global coalition of 45 organisations has launched a new standard which aims to reduce investment risk by improving the comparison of infrastructure project costs. Infrastructure projects across the globe categorise and forecast construction costs differently, making investment risky.

Kingshill Commercial Park in Aberdeen Uncertainty over Brexit and the political situation across the UK is continuing to hamper the commercial property market in Scotland, surveyors have warned.

Workloads have slowed across most sectors of the construction industry in Scotland amid concerns over Brexit and domestic political instability, surveyors have reported. According to the Q2 2017 UK Construction and Infrastructure Market Survey from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) is calling on construction firms in Scotland to help tackle the skills shortage in the industry by helping some of their community’s most vulnerable people get back into work. It has been predicted that the UK construction industry will create ar

The most inspiring young surveyors, who make Scotland a better place to live, work and visit, are currently being given the opportunity to have their talent recognised nationally and be rewarded with a car to help them in their career. Surveyors are essential in key areas such as housing, commercial

The RICS Annual Dinner is once again being held at Glasgow’s prestigious Radisson Blu hotel on 22nd June 2017, and we look forward to welcoming our members, colleagues and friends as we celebrate the year’s successes. The evening will begin at 7pm with a drinks reception, followed by a sumptuous

Scotland’s land, property and construction sectors must collaborate more effectively to help end rising homelessness and deliver more affordable homes, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has said today. The professional body is asking those who work in the industry to pledge their