Adrian Tagg MRICS

Stay ahead of the biggest changes shaping building surveying by joining leading surveyors, legal experts, and regulators for practical guidance on the Building Safety Act, fire safety, facade systems, building defects, retrofit, energy performance certificates, Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards, dilapidations, neighbourly matters, historic buildings and the responsible use of AI.

While most organisations benefit from building surveying graduates complementing degree apprentices, some still consider that modern graduates are necessary to practise.

As technology has advanced through the 21st century, surveyors have been able to speed up data collection and report their findings to clients in new ways. At the same time, though, we should be careful before we surrender control of our tasks to digital tools – after all, who would subcontract any part of their work without also disclaiming liability?