RICS Documents Flashcards
Please provide a summary of the RICS document ‘Asbestos’.
Professional Standard 2021.
Provides descriptions of asbestos types, relevant regulations, best practice, duties, and types of surveys.
Please provide a summary of the RICS document ‘Complaints Handling’.
Professional Standard 2016.
Understanding why clients complain and how it can be avoided; record keeping, initial response, learning.
Please provide a summary of the RICS document ‘Client Money Handling’.
Professional Standard 2019.
Details requirements for firms and members, guidance for holding and handling client money. For example having money immediately available and labelling account clearly with word ‘client’.
Please provide a summary of the RICS document ‘Countering Bribery, Corruption, Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing’.
Professional Standard 2019.
Requirements for regulated firms and members in relation to policies and actions/behaviours.
Please provide a summary of the RICS document ‘Dilapidations in the UK and Wales’.
Professional Standard 2016.
Role of the surveyor, expert witness, terminal schedules of dilapidations, Scott schedules.
Please provide a summary of the RICS document ‘Home Survey Standard’.
Professional Standard 2019.
Obligations for surveys, equipments, 3 levels of survey, report content.
Please provide a summary of the RICS document ‘Party Wall Legislation and Procedure’.
Professional Standard 2019.
Surveyors obligations, serving notices, legislation, draft letters and notices.
Please provide a summary of the RICS document ‘Planned Preventative Maintenance’.
Professional Standard 2022.
Client instructions, survey preparation, inspection, legal, report.
Please provide a summary of the RICS document ‘Surveying Safely’.
Professional Standard 2018.
Safe person concept, assessing risk, member responsibilities, places of work, surveys, fire safety.
Please provide a summary of the RICS document ‘Surveyors acting as Expert Witnesses’.
Professional Standard 2023.
Duties of surveyor, inspections, reports, fees.
Please provide a summary of the RICS document ‘Technical Due Diligence of Commercial Property’.
Professional Standard 2020.
Types of inspections, taking instructions, report format, inspection process.
Please provide a summary of the RICS document ‘Conflict Avoidance and Dispute Resolution in Construction’.
Practice Information 2012.
Conflict avoidance processes, 3 pillars of dispute resolution, ADR, standard forms of contract.
Please provide a summary of the RICS document ‘Drones: Application and Compliance for Surveyors’.
Practice Information 2019.
Potential use of drones, regulations, future rules.
Please provide a summary of the RICS document ‘ Extensions of Time’.
Practice Information 2014.
Standard forms of contract, delay analysis, submission of notices.
Please provide a summary of the RICS document ‘Final Account Procedures’.
Practice Information 2015.
Final account procedures, retention, loss and expense, defects period, negotiating procedures, timescales.
