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Is solar panel fire safety overlooked?

The increasing popularity of solar PVs as a renewable energy source brings with it a rising number of fires – but there are ways this can be mitigated

Noella Pio Kivlehan20 November 2024

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Party on: the Pyramus and Thisbe Society at 50

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Party on: the Pyramus and Thisbe Society at 50

The learned society recently celebrated its 50th year of providing expert advice on party walls that helps us continue to be good neighbours

Mark Williams 18 November 2024

How can good prison design change lives?

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How can good prison design change lives?

UK prisons are undergoing an overhaul to build modern spaces, while retrofitting sustainability into older stock, with the hope that the new designs will have a rehabilitative effect

Noella Pio Kivlehan 11 November 2024

go to article New homes and riverside regeneration in Barking

Adam Branson04 November 2024

Economics

Housing

Project management

Quantity surveying and construction

Residential

Residential valuation

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go to article ‘Investment in nature and social value pays off’

Tina Paillet FRICS01 November 2024

Cities and placemaking

Commercial property

Environmental surveying

RICS standards and guidance

Sustainability

Valuation

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go to article Simon Spooner MRICS: how to survey a shipwreck

Mark Williams28 October 2024

Geomatics

Heritage and conservation

Marine environments

Project management

Valuation

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go to article How can commercial property reduce its energy bills?

go to article A property problem: there are millions of empty homes

Mark Williams21 October 2024

Economics

Housing

Personal property

Property finance and investment

Residential

Residential valuation

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go to article Could filling empty homes solve the housing crisis?

Gela Pertusini14 October 2024

Ethical practice

Housing

Personal property

Property finance and investment

Residential

Residential valuation

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go to article Tick tock talk: the daylight saving debate

Modus staff13 October 2024

Building control

Energy

Facilities management

Health and safety

Rural

Wellbeing

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go to article Katharine Cary MRICS: ‘what better career is there?’

Karen Day07 October 2024

Building conservation

Building control

Heritage and conservation

Projects and people

Public sector

Quantity surveying and construction

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go to article Let’s reduce construction waste with a circular economy

Tina Paillet FRICS06 October 2024

Building control

Ethical practice

Materials and resources

Minerals and waste management

Quantity surveying and construction

Sustainability

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go to article Can self-build housing lift people out of poverty?

Gregory Scruggs30 September 2024

Quantity surveying and construction

Residential

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.