Professional guidance
Our standards and guidance cover all areas of surveying practice and embody best practice. They fall into the following categories: professional statements, practice statements, codes of practice, and guidance notes.
RICS standards and professional guidance are available free of charge to all and you can download PDF versions of the publications below. Check the side-bar options to refine the listed items by topic or professional group, or search for specific guidance using the search box above. Some RICS professional guidance publications can be bought from the RICS Shop.
Members should note that when an allegation of professional negligence is made against a surveyor, the court is likely to take into account the contents of any relevant professional guidance published by RICS in deciding whether or not the surveyor has acted with reasonable competence.
Outdated guidance is archived, however you can still obtain a reference copy by contacting our library.
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Quantity surveying & construction
Guidance note 12 Dec 2012
This global adaptation defines cash flow forecasting, before giving guidance on producing a useful forecast, explaining how to use it to assess progress on site, and analyse actual expenditure against forecast expenditure.
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Quantity surveying & construction
Guidance note 25 Jul 2013
This guidance provides a summary of the purpose and process of both cost analysis and construction project benchmarking.
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Project management
Guidance note 11 Aug 2015
This guidance note should be used as a source of reference for quantity surveyors (QS) or cost managers when BIM has been implemented in the life cycle of a project.
It offers an awareness of BIM and provides readers with recommendations for good practice when producing measurement outputs.
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Valuation
Information paper 07 Feb 2012
Covering most types of real estate asset, this information paper discusses the use of comparable evidence in property valuation.