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Community Tech Tips : Mobile optimisation

By Mark Lee posted 05-03-2025
Welcome to our next Community Tech Tip, where we’ll take a quick look at how you can access myRICS community on a mobile device. The updated site is optimised for mobile performance, making it easier than ever to keep up to date with the community on the go. All you need to do is visit community.rics.org on your mobile browser and log in exactly the same way as you do on a laptop or desktop computer. When you access the site on mobile the My Groups Quick List, Hot Topic and My Followed Content panels will be hidden to make the News Feed more accessible. The News Feed will scroll continuously just as it does on your computer, but if you ...

Meet Bethany

By Matt Wyatt posted 05-03-2025
Bethany is a Mineral Surveyor at Wardell Armstrong, she is a chartered member of RICS after passing her APC in December 2023. Let's meet Bethany The role of a mineral surveyor is relatively unknown to the outside world but within the minerals industry we play a vital and well-known role. Mineral surveyors have been integral to the quarrying and mining sector for as long as we have been commercially extracting minerals from the Earth. Surveying presents an intriguing and varied career journey, so what led you to focus on mineral surveying? There are so many interesting career paths within the world of surveying. My journey started from a young age ...

Meet Anil

By Matt Wyatt posted 14-01-2025
Anil Singh Rana FRICS, Associate Director at Gardiner & Theobald, founder of Constructing Professional Development (CPD) and RICS Global Ambassador having mentored 151 MRICS and and 7 FRICS in 18 countries spanning 5 continents as a way of “Giving Back” to the profession. Let’s meet Anil Singh. You can keep up to date with all Anil's achievements and his giving back journey on his YouTube channel here Being a counsellor for me is a way of “Giving Back” about what I have learned and what others have taught me directly or indirectly. I have always wanted to help people but never thought I will mentor RICS candidates on such a global scale but more ...

Meet Sian

By Matt Wyatt posted 04-12-2024
Sian Cornwell-Shaw MRICS is a Senior Surveyor at NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership and is also a RICS Stem Inspire Ambassador. Let's meet Sian. I love being a RICS STEM Inspire Ambassador and working with teachers and schools and the RICS early engagement team. I have set up a forum for all the Welsh RICS STEM Inspire Ambassadors which commences in January to share our experiences and hopefully encourage more members to sign up to be ambassadors. Surveying presents an intriguing and varied career journey. What motivated you to concentrate on property in particular? I grew up on a farm so was very familiar with land and property and ...

Community Tech Tips : Following Content

By Mark Lee posted 03-12-2024
Welcome to our next Community Tech Tip, where we’ll take a closer look at following content on myRICS community and how it can help you keep track of what's happening. Whenever you create a new thread , respond to an existing post or upload a Library entry , you are automatically set to follow it, ensuring that you receive updates and notifications about any further activity or replies. You can see if you're following a piece of content when the star at the top right is solid blue, and you can also manually follow content that you haven't interacted with by clicking this star when it's white. You can keep track of the most recent items you've ...

Community Tech Tips : Groups

By Mark Lee posted 31-10-2024
Welcome to our next Community Tech Tip, where we’ll take a closer look at the Groups on myRICS community and how you can use them to create a more personalised experience that's relevant to you. When you first sign up for myRICS community you will automatically be added to the Members Lounge group if you’re a Qualified Member or candidate. This group serves as a space for all members and candidates to share their thoughts, ideas, and connect with each other– if you’re having trouble accessing it please get in touch with the Community Team. This is a great place to start a conversation if you’re new or just unsure where it fits, but as you get more familiar ...

Meet Learie

By Matt Wyatt posted 15-10-2024
Learie Gonsalves is a fellow member of RICS with over 30 years’ experience in the industry working as a Building Surveyor, Contract Administrator, Project Manager and as an Architectural Technician. Learie also a director of One Building Solution Ltd in Leicester with his wife Nicola. Let's meet Learie . “Your background does not define your potential—your determination does. The industry may not always reflect the diversity we want to see, but it’s getting better and by stepping forward, you can be the change. Seek out opportunities, embrace challenges, and always aim to lift others as you rise. Through perseverance, curiosity, and hard work, you’ll discover ...

Community Tech Tips : Your profile

By Mark Lee posted 11-10-2024
Welcome to our next Community Tech Tip, where we’ll take a closer look at changes to your profile settings and how useful they can be to you and your presence on the community. Your Privacy Settings determine how much of your personal information is visible to fellow community members. The more information you share the easier it is for people to network and connect with you so try to find the right balance that works for you. You also have the option to opt out of appearing in the user directory if you wish to do so. You can learn more about your privacy settings here Sharing your Specialisms , specific skills or focus areas, can help you find, ...

Community Tech Tips: The News Feed

By Mark Lee posted 01-10-2024
Welcome to the first of our articles introducing you to the new and improved myRICS community, bringing a better user experience to our members. First up, we have the News Feed , the engine room of myRICS community 2.0! The News Feed consolidates all your content into a single, easy-to-navigate space. It takes the place of the recent activity panel on the homepage and features continuous scrolling for effortless browsing. By default the News Feed is set to feature all the content that’s available to you, which means all the following from the groups you’ve joined. Announcements Blogs Discussions Events Library Entries Questions ...

Meet John

By Matt Wyatt posted 24-09-2024
John has 37+ years in Private Practice Building Surveying & Architecture. Commercial Property & Development. Based in York and mainly working in Yorkshire, John also works with property elsewhere in the UK as well as mainland Europe. Let's meet John Choose a career in Surveying and you choose your own path and can specialise in whatever suits you best. Surveying is an interesting and varied career. What made you decide to specialise in building surveying At school I was good at Art, Geography, Maths, CDT and tech drawing but focused too much on beer & girls in 6th form and messed up my A levels missing out on the university ...

Community Spotlight: meet Jordan

By Matt Wyatt posted 22-08-2024
Jordan George MRICS is a Plymouth Based Chartered Building Surveyor for the Bailey Partnership and is also a Matrics Committee Member and a tree planting volunteer! Let’s meet Jordan : It keeps me on my toes, broadens my knowledge and keeps me interested in what work is coming in. Surveying is an interesting and varied career, can you tell us why you decided to specialise in building surveying ? I’ve always been interested in construction, from my fascination with diggers when I was a toddler to Lego when I was a child, so after my GCSEs had applied for a BTEC at my local college in Architecture, Surveying and the Built Environment whilst working ...

Community Spotlight: meet Campbell

By Matt Wyatt posted 03-06-2024
Our next community spotlight falls on Campbell Ferguson FRICS. Campbell is a chartered building surveyor who has been operating in Spain for many years and has some great insights for those looking to relocate abroad. Let's learn more about him : Benefitting from keeping an open mind and interest in what’s happening is the joy of the profession Surveying is an interesting and varied career, can you tell us why you decided to specialise in building surveying and why you chose to practice in Spain (apart from the weather of course!) ? When I qualified as a Land Economist and ARICS in Glasgow way back in 1973, I did so as a general practise ...

Community Spotlight: meet Rodney

By Matt Wyatt posted 11-04-2024
Our next community spotlight falls on Rodney Appleyard FRICS. Rodney is a chartered building surveyor and specialises in building surveying as well as being an adjudicator and arbitrator and is based in Bingley, West Yorkshire, UK. Let's learn more about him: The construction industry and building surveying is so diverse and never a boring moment, I only wish that more young people realised that it is fun and enter it. So, to start, tell us a bit more about you and your field of expertise. To start with I have more grey hair than black which people say give me an air of knowing, not sure about that but it does give an air of maturity and knowing ...

Community Spotlight - Meet Khaled

By Matt Wyatt posted 27-02-2024
Our inaugural spotlight shines on Khaled, a valuation surveyor and Candidate based in Cairo , Egypt. Khaled has been running his own business since 1992, and the surveying profession runs in his family. Let's learn more about him . ‘ It’s blending history with technology to uncover and preserve our historical experience’ To start, tell us more about you and your field of expertise. I'm based in Cairo, Egypt, where I work as a senior consultant, specializing in surveying, asset valuation, MTS Appraisals, asset management, property management, or relocation services as Destination Services Provider (DSP) for Egypt. I also ...

THANK YOU ALL FOR A WONDERFUL YEAR

By Ann Gray posted 14-12-2023
Hello all, I have a mere two more weeks (!) as 2023 RICS President. I must admit I have not been as present on MyRICS as was perhaps hoped, however, I do believe that I have maintained a high profile on other platforms and in person representing RICS as a valued institution and demonstrating the possibilities that the role of President presents. It has been a year of change, repair, creation, transformation and relationship building on many fronts. If you had asked me 6 months ago if I was having a good experience I would have had to say, sometimes. It was massively hard work. In about August, after settling in with our new CEO Justin Young, other new appointments ...

COME ON BY!

By Ann Gray posted 02-02-2023
And speaking of Great George Street - it's open for business. If you are in the neighborhood and need to hot-desk (or escape the London rain) there's one waiting for you. Wi-fi and all the trimmings. Need to book a meeting room? We've got that too. Still no cafe (we're working on it) but grab a cup at Storey Gate and hang out a spell. We miss our members!

WHAT A NIGHT!

By Ann Gray posted 31-01-2023
So, this happened! My inauguration last night was AMAZING and different in a lot of ways. For those of you who have attended them in the past you will recall they were large sit-down affairs held at Guild Hall with many dignitaries and plenty of speeches. They were a once-a-year reminder of the stature of the organization and the profound honor it is to take office. Don't get me wrong, they were pretty nice. Clement didn't get a party because of that awful pandemic we all had to endure. So, the first time back, mine was a more modest wine-glass affair held standing up at Great George Street and I must admit it was waaaay better. For one thing - only one speech ...