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  • RICS girl power in action

    I was reading the education supplement in Tuesday’s Guardian and saw that the Royal Institute of British Architects are launching a returners course via London Metropolitan University for women who’ve taken a career break. It's in their article a Women at Work. RICS has a campaign called Raising the Ratio which aims to boost women’s status in ...
    Posted to RICS Library Blog (Weblog) by hoakley on May 16, 2008
  • Making old housing energy efficient

    I was reading The Guardian yesterday and found an interesting story on the energy company E.ON and the University of Nottingham who are set to build a 1930s semi to test out how to make old UK housing stock more energy efficient . It made me think of how useful our Hot Topic listings on Green Buildings are. You’ll find they split into ...
    Posted to RICS Library Blog (Weblog) by hoakley on April 23, 2008
  • Two heads are better than one

    Last Friday I got a call from a member wanting to find out the latest information and figures on offices changing into residential property in London. I found there was a lot of material on our online database much of it around the 1990s. You can find the material on there by putting in these search words: offices and london and residential ...
    Posted to RICS Library Blog (Weblog) by hoakley on April 16, 2008
  • Ebooks

    Ebooks - the books that are never on loan!   The library has a variety of ebooks available to view on our website. They are fully searchable, easy to navigate and printing is also possible. You can even compile your own book by searching and buying individual pages or chapters from various ebooks to create a unique reference ...
    Posted to RICS Library Blog (Weblog) by dthorburn on April 2, 2008