Thought leadership

Over the last year, we’ve made significant progress in showcasing the usefulness of the profession, as well as providing much-needed sectoral, thematic and market analysis and insight through our thought leadership outputs.

Sustainability

In September 2021, we launched our inaugural Sustainability Report. This was compiled using over 4,000 member responses to specific sustainability-related questions which were included on our Global Commercial Property Monitor and our Global Construction Monitor.

Key findings include:

occupier and investor demand is growing for green or sustainable property
the construction sector is not yet measuring embodied carbon in projects and
client, stakeholder and customer demand is one of the main driving forces behind environmental, social and governance (ESG) appetite.

The report was downloaded over 3,000 times throughout the year. It was also cited by both the IVSC in their ESG and Real Estate Valuation Perspectives Paper and the UN in their 2021 Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction report, highlighting the global leadership position RICS has reached in this critical area.

ESG and Real Estate Valuation 2021 Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction report

Place and space

Between January and July 2022, there were signiﬁcant inﬂuence and advocacy activities across all markets.

In March 2022, we launched our landmark UK commercial real estate outlook report. This was produced in collaboration with key leaders from across the sector, and set the blueprint for the future of co-created, sector-specific research that RICS will be conducting over the years to come. The launch was attended by Emran Mian, Director General for Decentralisation and Growth at DLUHC, who endorsed the robustness of the report.

Since the launch, the report has been downloaded over 1,200 times.

‘A pleasure to be involved and well done you and the RICS for grabbing the bull by the horns to progress the agenda’.

Neil Odom-Haslett

Head of Commercial Real Estate Lending, abrdn

Data and technology

Digitalisation in construction 2022

We launched our inaugural annual Digitalisation in construction 2022 report. This highlights the important role that data and technology play in the delivery of construction and infrastructure projects. It has gained significant trade press coverage and positive feedback from our members.

Since the launch, the report has been downloaded over 1,100 times.

‘The following report shows an admirable mixture of these two forces, with unsurprising lagging indicators of adoption, particularly in the UK, married with a forceful and important call to arms from RICS. It is critical that, as an industry, we rise to the challenge’.

Jon Sealy

Chief Executive, Faithful and Gould Engineering Services

Markets and economics

The reputation of our surveys has increased this year, with the likes of the Bank of England, the International Monetary Fund and the UN citing or using our data to make policy and business decisions.

In terms of engagement and consumption of surveys, it has been a successful year.

One particular highlight is the UK Economy and Market Update. This aims to provide our UK small- to medium-sized (SME) members with a quarterly view of market conditions across the built environment.

Report	Visits	Downloads
RICS UK Residential Market Surveys	27,468	15,084
Global Construction Monitors	7,039	1,573
Global Commercial Property Monitors	11,386	1,484
Facilities Management Survey	3,694	866
UK Economy and Market Update	5,955	3,315
UK Valuation Dashboard	287	188

WBEF

World Built Environment Forum

In January we hosted the virtual WBEF Global Summit Dubai 2022. Over 1,300 RICS members from 87 countries registered to explore, examine, debate and discuss ‘The liveable city: agile, healthy, resilient’.

This also saw us engage with key external stakeholders such as the Global Infrastructure Hub, the World Green Building Council and the Singaporean government.

We have continued to provide accessible and market-leading content across the forum through our online content, driving:

visits to the website

13,289

webinars

28

total attendees

2,623

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