To support and to celebrate all surveying successes
What to do with the quality of high-rise residential building has been a UK focus ever since the Grenfell tragedy two years ago. The Government's response in mandating Building Information Modelling (BIM) for all new residential buildings above 18 storeys is a start. While many forward-thinking organisations have already been doing this for some time, …
This week we put out a Twitter call to all land and built environment groups and organisations as we are planning a blog series to celebrate and amplify what you do! We always saw the #surveyorhood as a place to bring people across the industry together and curate our collective voices to inspire, celebrate and …
A few weeks ago, my friend Natasha Stone, of the #surveyorhood fame, and I were having a conversation about cross-industry collaboration, something we're both passionate about, and how joining forces across the industry can be beneficial to us all. From that discussion stemmed this blog post which I was delighted to be asked to write. …
Continue reading Unite for Better – By Vidhya Issac-Langford
Prologue: When I originally wrote this piece in October last year, we were in the midst of doomsday headlines proclaiming post brexit panic and an industry almost on its knees, here we are weeks away from b-day and what has changed? Very little, except we have grown tired of the scaremongering, have adjusted to the …
Continue reading Supporting each other – By Joanna Farnsworth
Supporting and helping others to be the best they can be has always been close to my heart. It's been something I've naturally done in every job I've had, and I never really gave it a second thought until I came to step out of my comfort zone and re-trained as a Quantity Surveyor into …
Continue reading Surveyorhood – why the new name? – By Natasha Stone