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Header card from Historic England reading: a brief introduction to architecture, Stanley Kubrick, a Heritage Odyssey. The standfirst asks whether you have noticed how Kubrick used heritage in a number of his most famous films to help tell the stories and set the scene. A grand Gothic country house is shown behind.

Stanley Kubrick: A Heritage Odyssey

Property/Built Environment

A quiet meeting room with a wooden table, drawings, a pen and a mug, and the words painted on the wall: built for surveyors.

Surveyors UK

Surveying Firms will have a place

Property/Built Environment

A group of people seen from behind, arms raised, standing together in front of giant letters spelling SURVEYORS against a purple sky.

Surveyors UK

What the people behind surveying are really telling us

Property/Built Environment

A surveyor sits alone at a desk late at night, head in hands, facing a laptop showing mapping software. Rolled drawings, a notebook and a cold mug surround him, lit by a single anglepoise lamp. Used to illustrate the isolation that comes with an independent profession.

Surveyors UK

Why collaboration matters more than ever

Property/Built Environment

The January 2026 cover of Modus, the RICS magazine, with the cover line: where do surveyors stand on AI? Cover stories listed include AI in surveying, on how artificial intelligence is changing the sector and whether it can be trusted, and features on Liverpool-based chartered surveyors and the Church of England as an affordable housing developer.

Surveyors UK

AI is the most critical emerging skill for surveyors over the next 5 to 10 years

Technology & AI

A lone surveyor in a high-visibility jacket and hard hat stands in mist at the foot of a vast concrete monolith, dwarfed by it, tablet in hand. Used to illustrate the surveyor who gets on with it alone.

Surveyors UK

Surveying doesn’t actually reward collaboration. It rewards independence.

Business Development & Marketing

A bearded surveyor in an orange hard hat and high-visibility jacket stands in falling snow on a site, snow settled on his beard, holding a tablet. An excavator is blurred behind him.

Ergos

The Importance of Cybersecurity in the Surveying Industry

Technology & AI

A modern white apartment block against a blue sky, with glass-balustraded balconies stepping along the facade and greenery at ground level. Flats are typically held on a leasehold basis.

Residential Freehold vs Leasehold

Seagull Flat Roof Inspections

Seagull Aerial & Photography

Drones for flat roof inspection