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They depaved the parking lot and put up a paradise

More green space and permeable ground surfaces are the first line of defence against flash floods. How can better planning tackle the impacts of climate change?

Mark Williams31 March 2025

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The giant drill transforming Stockholm’s energy grid

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The giant drill transforming Stockholm’s energy grid

An ambitious plan to decarbonise Sweden’s energy has led to a colossal tunnel excavation under its capital city, using a 240-metre-long boring machine

Modus staff 25 March 2025

What are freeports and how do they operate?

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What are freeports and how do they operate?

They create opportunities for property development and often eliminate trade tariffs, but surveyors must help to ensure ethical and legal standards are followed in these special economic zones

Modus staff 17 March 2025

go to article How Shravan Joshi turned gridlock into green growth

Gela Pertusini10 March 2025

Building control

Cities and placemaking

Commercial property

Infrastructure

Infrastructure and services

Projects and people

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go to article Mapping change: celebrating the women in street names

Helen Parton03 March 2025

Cities and placemaking

Diversity and inclusion

Planning and development

Projects and people

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go to article Marianne Suhr MRICS: ‘we need more specialist surveyors’

Mark Williams24 February 2025

Building conservation

Building pathology

Building surveying

Heritage and conservation

Housing

Residential

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go to article When dams fall, rivers flow: balancing heritage and habitat

Gregory Scruggs17 February 2025

Environmental surveying

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go to article The Phoenix: affordable rents, shared spaces and no cars

Gela Pertusini10 February 2025

Cities and placemaking

Housing

Project management

Quantity surveying and construction

Residential

Wellbeing

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go to article Return to the office or head for the door?

Gela Pertusini03 February 2025

Commercial property

Corporate real estate

Economics

Research

Wellbeing

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go to article Towards a new generation of skilled professionals

Justin Sullivan FRICS30 January 2025

Project management

Quantity surveying and construction

Residential

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go to article From runway to work, rest and play – reimagining Singapore's airport

Stephen Cousins27 January 2025

Cities and placemaking

Commercial property

Housing

Land and resources

Planning and development

Sustainability

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go to article A new tool to help solve construction's embodied carbon dilemma

go to article Taking in the sea air: why pleasure piers prevailed

Mark Williams20 January 2025

Modus editorial advisory group members

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Alice Graham MRICS MSc

Alice is a chartered quantity surveyor with six years of consultancy experience on public and private sector projects. Alice currently works at Procore Technologies, a construction technology company. In her role, she specialises in supporting clients to digitally transform their construction cost management processes.

Kevin Keane FRICS

Kevin is the quality and training manager at Allied Surveyors Scotland, a member of the RICS Scotland Board, Inspire Ambassador and Lionheart Ambassador and throughout all this is an advocate and champion for DE&I. Kevin is passionate about property, people and the development of the surveying profession.

Jomailyn Sanchez AssocRICS

Jomai is an assistant cost manager with five years' experience in infrastructure projects across the water, rail and road sectors. She has worked on major schemes for Southern Water, Transport for London and currently the TransPennine Route Upgrade. Jomai actively promotes RICS in the Philippines and champions global collaboration to foster diversity in engineering and quantity surveying.