The DNA of Cities: What Makes Urban Identity Investable?
Two urbanists turn an abstract idea, a city's "character", into something surveyors and developers could actually act on in a live project.
The Surveyors' Role in Supporting Urban Leadership in Cities
Successful urban growth depends on shared leadership across public, private, academic, and civil sectors - not surveyors working alone.
'If You Can't Grow It, Mine It' - How Minerals Built Your World
The toothpaste on your brush, the mug holding your coffee, the phone in your hand: none of it exists without minerals. An unflinching look at one of the most consequential and least understood surveying specialisms.
How Can Surveyors Navigate the Rise of Flex Space?
Flex space has been booming for years, and it isn't slowing down, but many valuers have been reluctant to touch it. How can they start catching up with a sector they can no longer afford to ignore?
Rethinking Embodied Carbon as an Asset
Two young industry winners argue that embodied carbon should be treated as a managed asset, not a one-off cost. One of the industry's foremost experts on embodied carbon asks whether it actually holds up.
Supporting Men’s Mental Health in Construction
A look at the major day-to-day pressures on mens' mental health and how leaders can shape a safer construction workforce.
What Impacts Our Relationship with The Built Environment?
A placemaking authority explores 'good' urbanism, planning reform, and the tension between greenbelt protection and development.
How the Surveying Industry Can Retain More Women
Tackling the deeper issues behind women leaving the profession: career progression barriers, pay disparity, intersectionality, and what genuine cultural change requires beyond unconscious bias training.
Sara Haddad
Content Strategist & Podcast Producer | B2B, Built Environment
Featured Articles
Why Supporting Women Quantity Surveyors Will Help Bridge the Skills Gap
Women make up just 17% of chartered quantity surveyors. Here's what's driving them out of the profession, and what firms can do to improve retention.
Revolutionising Construction: Introducing Building Information Modelling
From 3D modelling to AI-driven energy efficiency: how Building Information Modelling is reshaping design, construction and facilities management.
Hong Kong Construction: The Retention Problem Money Can't Solve
Hong Kong's construction sector is facing a skills crisis driven by high turnover, an ageing workforce, and a labour market where financial incentives are fast becoming unsustainable. This piece examines why salary alone won't solve the retention problem, and what construction employers need to offer instead.