Neurodiverse professionals in the built environment face unique challenges in the journey to becoming chartered, but with more awareness comes an increasing level of support for such APC candidates.

Dan Knowles FRICS hosts this week’s episode of The RICS Podcast, where Morwenna Slade MRICS and Jennifer Hobart MRICS share their experiences with the assessment process as neurodivergent professionals.

They discuss the complexities of the process, support that should be available, and why neurodivergence can be a superpower in the industry.

This episode of The RICS Podcast covers:

• Considerations that assessors can make for neurodiverse candidates in the final assessment
• How neurodiverse assessors can support those with particular requirements
• Finding different learning styles to better suit your APC journey
• How employers can support neurodiverse people
• The benefits to teams of hiring professionals with varied specialisms and traits

Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors: https://www.rics.org/uk/
Dan Knowles FRICS: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-knowles-frics-821bbb22/
Jennifer Hobart MRICS: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-hobart-mrics-b6954552/
Morwenna Slade MRICS: https://www.linkedin.com/in/morwenna-slade-9130b470/

With sustainability becoming a growing area of focus among the residential property industry, this week’s RICS Podcast focuses on how green practices are reflected for consumers, banks and surveyors alike.

Emma Fletcher MRICS (RICS/Octopus Energy) is joined by Timothy Bannister (Rightmove) and Maria Dutton (Green Finance Institute) to discuss the overlap in understanding of sustainability between stakeholders, surveyors’ role in promoting sustainable residential development, and how the sector is likely to evolve going forward.

This episode of The RICS Podcast covers:

• How consumers and banks define sustainable housing, and whether there’s common ground
• Ways for surveyors to help convey the message of the industry’s growing sustainability
• The intrinsic value of a happy, healthy home, and how it’ll feed into the financial values reflected in the market

Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors: https://www.rics.org/uk/
Emma Fletcher MRICS: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmafletchercambridge/
Maria Dutton: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maria-g-dutton/
Timothy Bannister: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timothy-bannister-1b00316/

While the need for carbon reduction is clear, the route to creating a built environment that better serves this need is constantly being refined.

Through their work at Introba UK and Related Argent respectively, Clara Bagenal George and David Partridge are contributing to the RICS whole life carbon assessment (WLCA) standard and the Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard.

Clara and David join RICS’ Charlotte Neal on the podcast this week to discuss the formation of these standards, and personal journeys implementing positive steps to reduce carbon in their own activities.

This episode of The RICS Podcast covers:

• How BECD and the Whole Life Carbon Assessment methodology work together in tandem
• Why the Net Zero Carbon Building Standard is so essential for the industry
• David and Clara’s personal pursuits for more carbon conscious lifestyles
• Trying to overcome reliance on third parties to make your own positive changes

Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors: https://www.rics.org/uk/
Whole life carbon assessment (WLCA) for the built environment: https://www.rics.org/profession-standards/rics-standards-and-guidance/sector-standards/construction-standards/whole-life-carbon-assessment
BECD: https://www.becd.co.uk/
UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard: https://www.nzcbuildings.co.uk/
Clara Bagenal George: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clara-bagenal-george-5929bba2/
Introba UK: https://www.linkedin.com/company/introba/
David Partridge: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-partridge-38b3b512/
Related Argent: https://www.linkedin.com/company/relatedargentlimited/