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A DJI Air 3s drone in flight, propellers spinning, with its twin camera gimbal visible. A stone arched bridge is blurred in the background. The Air 3s is a C1 classification drone used for surveying work.

Rules for Drones in surveying

Technology & AI

The corner of a modern building clad in dark grey panels with flush windows, against a white sky.

Howden Group

Top 5 claims risks facing surveyors in 2026

Risk, Legal & Insurance

A person in a suit stands in heavy rain on a city street at night, sheltering under a black umbrella with water pouring off it. Used to illustrate the professional indemnity cover a surveying firm relies on.

Surveyors UK

The insurance conversation surveying firms aren’t having

Technology & AI

A surveyor's desk with a hard hat, tape measure, laser measure and papers, overlaid with the words: a mandatory standard, an unprepared profession, and now a new pathway.

Surveyors UK

A mandatory RICS standard. An unprepared profession. And now a new pathway.

Technology & AI

Surveying visibility problem skills shortage in surveying

Surveyors UK

Surveying has a visibility problem. And I think I know why.

A purple graphic over a city skyline reading: 9 March 2026, RICS Responsible Use of AI Standard is live.

Surveyors UK

The RICS AI Standard is live. Here is what matters most.

Technology & AI

Three young people walking together and talking outside a building, one carrying a laptop.

A joint commitment to a more inclusive industry

Diversity & Inclusion

A dark room with several coloured doorways glowing along its walls, and the words: AI is not just one thing. Used to illustrate the six areas of a surveying business AI is changing at once, rather than the single corner most firms are watching.

Surveyors UK

Most surveyors are only looking at one corner. Here’s the whole room.

Technology & AI

A dark graphic over a stylised chat window reading: your client just uploaded your report into ChatGPT. Whether you like it or not.

Surveyors UK

Your report is already inside ChatGPT.

Technology & AI

A promotional graphic for the RICS professional standard on Responsible Use of Artificial Intelligence in Surveying Practice, which applies to all RICS members from 9 March 2026, asking whether your firm knows what it needs to have in place.

Surveyors UK

Two weeks until the RICS AI standard goes live. What has your firm done?

Technology & AI

A graphic reading: something has changed in how your next client will find you. It is already happening. Most surveying firms have no idea that a new layer has formed on top of the internet. The method of discovery is shifting from browsing lists to asking questions. It is not gradual. It is not eventually.

Surveyors UK

AI Search and Surveying Firms: How to Get Recommended, Not Ignored

A glowing wireframe cube holding streams of code, with the words: why they are fearful and what this means for surveying.

Surveyors UK

The experts in AI – why they are fearful and what this means for surveying

Technology & AI