{"id":873475,"date":"2025-09-16T21:12:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T02:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/16\/rics-launches-global-construction-standards-consultation\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T21:12:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T02:12:57","slug":"rics-launches-global-construction-standards-consultation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/16\/rics-launches-global-construction-standards-consultation\/","title":{"rendered":"RICS launches global construction standards consultation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wrapper_sleeve\">\n<p><img width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ca.emap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/02\/Building-inspector_surveyor_building-control_shutterstock.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  alt=\"Building-inspector_surveyor_building-control_shutterstock.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has opened a six-week global consultation on new professional standards for the construction sector.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time, RICS is preparing a single professional standard that will combine global principles of quantity surveying and project management.<\/p>\n<p>It will replace 32\u00a0 guidance notes RICS previously issued between 2009 and 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The draft standard has been authored by Matt Thompson, a technical writer who also produced the <em>RIBA Handbook of Practice Management, 10th edition<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>He was supported by an international group of RICS members and industry experts.<\/p>\n<p>The consultation will also cover six accompanying Practice Information documents, covering the full life cycle of construction projects.<\/p>\n<p>Amit Patel, RICS head of professional practice for construction, said the new model would allow professionals to update their working practices more swiftly and create a more consistent framework.<\/p>\n<p>He urged RICS members and non-members worldwide to respond.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/links.uk.defend.egress.com\/Warning?crId=68c3ee997473b69e6f9f3928&#038;Domain=emap.com&#038;Threat=eNpzrShJLcpLzAEADmkDRA%3D%3D&#038;Lang=en&#038;Base64Url=eNpNislqw0AQRL_Gx55FGm0GX0IICBJ8MDhGFzObZKNlzHSL-f3IzsVFXV7VuxE9cM95pZbCqrlikfkVkkcCyXRCitqObPb8W_B_d5d9bU0psXi3yEIcNnzE0HvEe1gASS9OR4fbbMOC60SatuPJwxSMnuA5U1wtvfvwLnPJhRSZkE2Tu8L0QjoobZH1VldQVpkF5VQPpqwluNyp3ChhGtOAeIXDqbu4azuk28fx2NLvqfbtz3j-7Nr6oFT-B5uwUJY%3D&#038;@OriginalLink=74n5c4m7.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me\">consultation<\/a> will run from 16 September until 24 October. RICS expects to launch the final version of the <em>Professional Standard<\/em> in the first quarter of 2026 once responses have been reviewed.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2009\" data-end=\"2281\"><em>Source: RICS\u00a0press release<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructionnews.co.uk\/supply-chain\/rics-launches-global-construction-standards-consultation-16-09-2025\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Ben Vogel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has opened a six-week global consultation on new professional standards for the construction sector. For the first time, RICS is preparing a single professional standard that will combine global principles of quantity surveying and project management. It will replace 32\u00a0 guidance notes RICS previously issued between 2009 and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":873476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1424,2432],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-873475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-global","category-launches"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=873475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/873476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}