Intro Flashcards
what does RICS mean and what were its former names?
The Royal Institutes of chatered surveyors
Origionally The Surveyors Institute
Then The Chartered Surveyours Institute
How far back does RICS date back to and when was it founded, furthermore when was it incorporated into the royal charter?
1792, founded in 1868 and incorporated in 1881
What is the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors?
It’s an institution that of Chartered Surveyors promotes and enforces the highest professional qualifications and standards in the development and management of land, real estate, construction and infrastructure.
What is the APC?
It means the Assessment of Professional Competence and chartered status.
What is building pathology?
It’s an understanding of defect analysis and the likely resultant defects arrising from failures in the building fabric.
What is a defect?
An unpredicted early loss of performance because of fault.
What types of fault can lead to defects?
Design
Manufacture
Installation
Maintenance
Specification
Inappropriate use
What do we require for diagnosis?
Evidence you gather
Your Knowledge
Others Knowledge
Technology and Science
Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
What is Critical Thinking?
It’s a thinking process where you EVALUATE what you observe, what others say and evidence in order to arrive at a reasoned Judgement.
What is the critical thinking process for building surveying?
Seek out and gather the appropriate evidence
Examine and analyse the evidence
Identify Issues - Acknowledge and deal with bias, complexity and prioritise the issues in terms of their relative importance
Draw and express a refective conclusion to this
What are the roles of a Building Surveyor?
Managing design and construction
Undertaking Building Surveys and Measured Surveys
Analysing design and building defects
Preparing Strategies for asset management and property maintenance
Preperaing Insurance valuations and claims
Preparing strategic property advice covering land ownership, lease conditions, boundaries, title matters (including easements, licencesand covenants etc.), and landlord and tenant legislation.
Project management and development monitoring
Others- Accessibility and energy audits, specialist surveys (Asbestos, damp), conservation advice and sustainability advice
What are the fundamentals of building pathology?
Understanding component durability and predictions of service life
Mechanissms of decay
Construction techniques and evolution
Effective investigations
Deductive reasoning critical thinking and testing to arrive at a reasoned diagnosis
Consideration of a prognosis
Addect change/ remediation
Concise, effective and targeted reporting
According to BRE’s common defects research. What are the top 5 origins in a building and what are top 5 causes?
External Walls - 20%
Roofs - 19%
Windows and Doors - 13%
Floors- 12%
Services- 9%
Substructure - 7%
Rain Penetrations -22%
Condensation 17%
Cracking 16%
Detatchment 13%
Entrapped Water 6%
Rising Damp 5%
What are some of the agents or factors of decay?
Weathering
Eclectromagnetic
Biological
Stress
Chemical
incompatibility
Usage
What is investigating diagnostics?
It’s the systematic examination of a component, element or system that is faulty or not performing adequately to determine a diagnosis and a prognosis.
