Surveyors UK blog

Independent writing on AI, regulation, practice and the people behind UK surveying. Want to submit a blog article, contact us to learn more.

Two workers in high visibility jackets and hard hats looking up at a part built concrete apartment block with a tower crane above.

Spotlight on utilities: Why underground data is critical for developers

Construction, Infrastructure, Engineering

An isometric illustration of connected data platforms and processing nodes in purple and teal, representing how AI systems handle surveying knowledge.

Surveyors UK

The real AI challenge is not what you think

Technology & AI

Surveyors UK

If you think AI is a shortcut, You’re missing the point

Technology & AI

Surveyors UK

Surveyors and AI: the same messages, getting louder

Technology & AI

A testimonial from Stephen Root, Chartered Surveyor, reading: I have attended, invaluable to the surveying profession, set over a photograph of a Jack Russell looking out across open countryside.

Surveyors UK

AI in Surveying: What our recent event confirmed.

Technology & AI

A stone memorial drinking fountain standing in a park among bare trees, under the title: Temperance Buildings, the way out of darkest England.

Temperance Buildings: The Way Out of Darkest England

Property/Built Environment

A misty city skyline under the words: surveying firms, visibility, recruitment, connection, the next phase is being built.

Surveyors UK

The next piece of Surveyors UK is for firms. Here’s what’s coming.

Business Development & Marketing

A purple-tinted photograph of the City of London skyline and Tower Bridge, with the words: when professional bodies start publishing AI standards, it is time to pay attention.

Surveyors UK

AI is a professional issue for surveyors

Technology & AI

A three dimensional building information model of a red brick apartment block with a navigation toolbar, beside the words: why starting your BIM journey is getting easier.

Why starting your BIM journey is getting easier

Property/Built Environment

The front door of a Victorian red brick terraced house, painted purple with stained glass panels and a brass knocker, number 34. Planters of hydrangeas flank the step and a doormat reads HOME. A leafy residential street runs away behind.

Surveyors UK

What AECOM and Rightmove are telling us about the future of surveying

Technology & AI

A misty blue and grey digital landscape of fragmented shapes, with the words: AI risks in surveying.

Surveyors UK

AI – a growing risk in Surveying

Technology & AI

A traditional building photographed at dusk with warm light spilling from its windows and a large glazed opening, a bare tree in front. The SPAB Old House Project property where the conservation-led retrofit monitoring is being carried out.

Evidence-based conservation-led retrofit research

Property/Built Environment