Glossary of Terms

Type of surveyor

The types of surveyor currently available are:


  • Arts and antiques - Chartered arts and antiques surveyor
  • Building surveying - Chartered building surveyor/Chartered building control surveyor
  • Commercial property - Chartered commercial property surveyor
  • Construction - Chartered construction surveyor/Chartered quantity surveyor
  • Environmental - Chartered environmental surveyor
  • Facilities management - Chartered facilities management surveyor
  • Geomatics - Chartered land surveyor/Chartered hydrographic surveyor
  • Management consultancy - Chartered management consultancy surveyor
  • Minerals - Chartered minerals surveyor
  • Planning and development - Chartered planning and development surveyor
  • Project management - Chartered project management surveyor
  • Valuation - Chartered valuation surveyor

More information on Chartered Alternative Designations



Areas of practice

(Modern) Timber Frame House Surveys


Abseiling Survey Work


Access Audits


Advice on Repairs & Maintenance


Aerial Photography / Surveys


Affordable rural housing


Agricultural surveying service


Airports and Airfields


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Antiques & Fine Art


Approved Inspector Services


Arbitration Work


Arboriculture


Archaeology


Architectural & Design Services


Asbestos and Hazardous Materials


Auctions (Household and General)


Boundary Demarcation & Disputes


Building Control (Private Certification)


Building Control Regulations


Building Defects


Building Design & Contract Administration


Building Maintenance & Repair


Building Refurbishment


Building Surveying


CDM / Health & Safety Advice


Churches


Civil Engineering


Coastal Erosion


Commercial & Industrial International Property


Commercial Building Surveys


Commercial Land Agency


Commercial Property Agency


Commercial Property Dispute Resolution


Commercial Property Management


Commercial Property Service Charges


Commercial Property Valuation


Commercial Real Estate Management


Commercial Rent Reviews (& Lease Renewals)


Compulsory Purchase & Compensation


Construction Contract Claims


Construction Cost Consultancy


Construction Dispute Resolution


Construction Management Monitoring


Construction Procurement


Construction Value Management


Contaminated Land Advice


Convenience Stores


Corporate Property Real Estate


Council Tax Valuation and Banding


Countryside Stewardship Claims


Development Advice


Development Management & Funding


Development Monitoring


Digital Mapping & Data Processing


Dilapidations


Easements


ECO Properties


Electrical & Mechanical Engineering


Electromagnetic Fields and High Voltage Pylons


Energy Audit/Assessment


Engineering Cost Services


Engineering Services


Engineering Surveys


Environmental Audit/Assessment


Environmental services


Equestrian Properties


Expert Witness Reports


Facilities for the disabled


Facilities Management


Farm / Livestock quotas and management


Fire Risk Assessment
Fire Risk Assessment

Flood Risk Assessment


Forestry & Woodland Management


General Practice


Geographic Information Systems


Geomatics


Golf Courses


Grant Work (Property Related)


Green & Sustainable Buildings


Health Care Properties


Historic Building Conservation


Home Buyers' Survey & Valuation


Home Condition Surveys


Hotels & Licensed Property


Household Contents Valuations


Housing


Hydrographic Surveying


Industrial Property Agency


Industrial Property Surveys


Industrial Property Valuation


Insolvency Advice


Insurance Loss Adjustment & Claims


Insurance Reinstatement Cost Assessments


Land Disposals and Acquisitions


Land Surveying


Land Use Planning


Leasehold Enfranchisement


Leisure, Sports & Recreation


Life Cycle Costing


Livestock valuation


Management Consultancy


Measured Surveys of Buildings by traditional methods


Measured Surveys of Buildings with EDM Equipment


Mediation Training Vacillation


Medical Premises


Minerals Surveying services


Mining Subsidence & Stability


Mobile Home Surveys


Mobile Phone Masts
Mobile Phone Masts

Motor Trade: Dealerships, Car Sales Premises, Car & Van Hire Premises


Motor Trade: Garages, Tyre & Exhaust Centres


Mundic Testing


Nature conservation/management


Ombudsman for Estate Agency


Other Specialist Buildings
Other Specialist Buildings

Party Wall Advice


Period Property Surveys


Petrol Stations


Pipelines


Planning & Development


Planning Advice & Appeals


Planning Gain


Plans, Specifications and Supervision of Building Works


Plant & Machinery


Post Offices


Private Finance Initiative


Project Management


Property Auctions


Property Development


Property Energy Reports


Property Insurance Assessment


Property Investment Advice


Property Taxation Advice


Public and Private Rights of Way Disputes


Public Authority Development


Public Building Surveys (eg theatres, schools)


Quantity Surveying


Ransom Strips


Rating Advice & Appeals


Rehabilitation of Buildings


Relocation Agents


Research & Consultancy


Residential Building Surveys


Residential International Property


Residential Land Agency


Residential Property Estate Agency


Residential Property Letting


Residential Property Management


Residential Property Valuations


Retail Property Agency


Retail Property Management


Retail Property Valuation


Rights to Light


Roadside Restaurants


Rural Practice


Rural Property Estate Agency


Rural Property Estate Management


Rural Property Valuation


Rural Services


Schedules of Condition


School Properties


Service Charge Advice


Settlement Monitoring


Site Surveys


Software Development & IT Consultancy


Specialist advice on Garden Design


Specialist valuers of Broadcasting Equipment


Stock Condition Surveys


Subsidence Claims


Telecommunications


Thermal Insulation and Energy Conservation


Urban Regeneration


Utilities


VAT


Waste Management


Wayleaves


Wildlife Trusts and Organisations


Windfarms