Guides for surveyors
Plain-English guides for surveyors and expert witnesses
Practical explainers on the procedures and documents that sit around your reports — written for the surveyor who has to produce the work, not for claimants or solicitors. General information, not legal advice.
AI register & risk register for RICS compliance
What the RICS AI Standard (in force 9 March 2026) expects firms to keep — the AI register, the risk register with an example you can copy, and the materiality, procurement, disclosure, reliability and training records around them.
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The Pre-Action Protocol for Housing Disrepair
What the Pre-Action Protocol for Housing Conditions Claims means for the instructed expert — the Letter of Claim, disclosure, single joint expert, CPR Part 35, and the schedule of works.
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What is a Scott Schedule?
The columnar "travelling document" used in dilapidations, housing disrepair and building-defect disputes — its origin, the column format, and what the surveyor who prepares it has to deliver.
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What is a Schedule of Dilapidations?
Interim vs terminal, the lease covenants it is built on, the section 18 cap on damages, the Dilapidations Protocol and Quantified Demand, and how it becomes a Scott Schedule.
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What is an EWS1 Form?
The External Wall Fire Review form lenders ask for on flats — what it is and is not, the A and B rating options, who can sign it, and how it sits on top of a PAS 9980 FRAEW.
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What is a Reinstatement Cost Assessment?
Why rebuild cost is not market value, what BCIS rates and allowances go into the figure, the underinsurance "average" clause, how often to refresh it, and who can prepare one.
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