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Bringing you award-winning insight and opinion on the built environment from around the world

Appraising the historic buildings of Santa Barbara

Michael Neal Arnold MRICS has played a big part in the Californian city’s fortunes, one Spanish Colonial Revival-style building at a time

Gregory Scruggs14 July 2025

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The art of mapmaking: redrawing London Underground

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The art of mapmaking: redrawing London Underground

The iconic London Underground map has been reinterpreted by cities all over the world for their own transit systems, but psychologist Maxwell Roberts thinks it’s time for a change

Gela Pertusini 07 July 2025

Yulia Pak MRICS and the urban planning balancing act

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Yulia Pak MRICS and the urban planning balancing act

Creative Enterprise Zones are a mayoral initiative to keep space for artists and creative organisations affordable and accessible in London, despite rising land values

Mark Williams 30 June 2025

go to article How did historic shophouses became prime real estate?

Noella Pio Kivlehan22 June 2025

Cities and placemaking

Commercial property

Commercial valuation

Heritage and conservation

Land and resources

Valuation

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go to article Is a vocational route the best way to become a surveyor?

go to article Could small modular reactors power the UK’s growth?

Gela Pertusini16 June 2025

Energy

Health and safety

Infrastructure

Infrastructure and services

Planning and development

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go to article The remarkable restoration of Sheerness Dockyard Church

Mark Williams09 June 2025

Building conservation

Building surveying

Dilapidations

Heritage and conservation

Marine environments

Project management

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go to article Sacred structures: Brutalism in church design

Modus staff02 June 2025

Building conservation

Building surveying

Cities and placemaking

Corporate real estate

Heritage and conservation

Maintenance and repair

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go to article The quantity surveyors behind the Grand Egyptian Museum

Stephen Cousins27 May 2025

Commercial property

Cost management

Heritage and conservation

Project management

Projects and people

Quantity surveying and construction

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go to article Why Wrexham AFC is a catalyst for regional regeneration

Karen Day19 May 2025

Cities and placemaking

Commercial property

Economics

Planning and development

Projects and people

Property finance and investment

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go to article Ross Alberto MRICS: how much is a racehorse worth?

Mark Williams12 May 2025

Commercial property

Commercial valuation

Running your business

Rural economy

Valuation

Valuation of business and intangible assets

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go to article George Windsor Clive MRICS: valuing equestrian property

Stephen Cousins06 May 2025

Commercial property

Commercial valuation

Running your business

Rural economy

Valuation

Valuation of business and intangible assets

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go to article Can 3D printing make lunar construction a reality?

Modus staff28 April 2025

Infrastructure

Infrastructure and services

Materials and resources

Minerals and waste management

Planning and development

Technology

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.