Best Chartered Building Surveyor Podcasts (2025)

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She’s electric electrical: A story of resilience, growth and reinvention, Meet Megan 56:00

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Meg’s path to becoming an electrician is anything but ordinary. From overcoming health challenges to celebrating her 30th birthday hugging cows, she brings a refreshingly real perspective on resilience, integrity in the trades, and carving your own path as a woman in the electrical industry. Meg opens up about the realities of being a female electr…

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The Carpentry Girl: From lecture halls and cramming, to Injury Recovery, and site work 44:40

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Ever wondered what it’s really like to swap textbooks for tool belts? In this episode of Life of a Female Tradie, Michelle aka The Carpentry Girl; shares her career journey from leaving university to jump into the world of carpentry. She dives into the realities of her apprenticeship, the ups and downs of working in a male-dominated industry, and h…

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Beth Yates Talks Burn-Out, The Best Apprentice, and a Nightmare job in the Decorating Trade 29:49

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In this episode I sit down with Beth Yates, a self-employed painter and decorator, as she opens up about her journey from traditional employment to running her own successful decorating business. Beth shares the real-life challenges of being self-employed, from finding consistent work to managing clients’ expectations, while highlighting how social…

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Pipes, Pressure & Perseverance: Lisa’s Plumbing Apprenticeship Journey 33:42

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This week I talk with Lisa, an apprentice plumber and gas engineer, about her incredible journey from the fitness industry to the plumbing trade as an apprentice. Lisa shares the challenges and rewards of a plumbing apprenticeship, from mastering the physical demands of plumbing and gas engineering to building confidence through hands-on experience…

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Surveying Sites to Safety Boots: Sophie Perkins’ Construction journey as a Chartered Building Surveyor 54:41

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This conversation with Sophie Perkins is more than a career story — it’s about driving change in the construction industry. From women’s safety gear and PPE to mentorship and representation. We discuss the challenges and advancements in personal protective equipment (PPE) for women in the construction industry, and the need for better-fitting gear,…

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Restoring Heritage one mould at a time: Fibrous plasterer Mary-Havana Little 39:34

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Let me introduce traditional fibrous plasterer Mary-Havana Little, she shares her remarkable journey into the world of heritage plastering and restoration craftsmanship. As a passionate advocate for traditional trades and one of the few women in the traditional plastering industry, Mary opens up about the challenges she’s overcome, the beauty of wo…

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From Visual Merchandiser to House Painter & Mural Artist – Pamela's Creative Career Journey 40:34

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In this inspiring episode, I sit down with Pamela from Pamela’s Painted Spaces, a professional house painter and mural artist, to explore her journey from working in visual merchandising to building a fulfilling career as a self-employed creative professional. Pamela shares what it’s like to transition into the world of residential painting and wal…

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A Bench Joiners Story of Skill, Social Media and Generational Trade - Meet Sal 25:30

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In this inspiring episode, we sit down with Sal, a skilled bench joiner from Nottingham, whose passion for woodworking runs deep through generations of family tradition. Sal opens up about her journey into the craft, painting a vivid picture of the artistry behind handmade joinery and the everyday challenges of sourcing quality materials. She share…

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TaskHer: Your Go-To for Female Trades Professionals 41:43

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In this conversation, Anna Moynihan, co-founder of TaskHer, shares her journey from a varied background in television production and marketing to creating a platform that connects homeowners with tradeswomen. She discusses the challenges faced in building Tasker, the importance of verification for tradeswomen, and the mission to normalize women in …

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Transform your Health and your Home with Sharon Norton-Marshall - Decorator & Trade Health Coach 1:11:18

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Sharon Norton-Marshall shares her journey from being a decorator for 25 years to becoming a health coach focused on improving the mental health and well-being of decorators and tradespeople. She discusses her personal struggles with mental health, the importance of active listening, and the need for mind expansion. Sharon emphasizes the significanc…

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Chisel, Mallet and a killer Mullet: Rosie the Stonemason and Carver 41:18

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In this conversation, Rosie, a skilled stonemason and stone carver, shares her journey into the trade, the skills and tools required, and the importance of patience in her work. She discusses the challenges of working with natural stone, the balance between carving and masonry, and the dynamics of working in a family business. Rosie also touches on…

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Beyond The Brush with Joanne Hay Decorating 52:45

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In this episode, Jo shares her journey in the decorating industry, discussing her background, emphasising the importance of social media in building her business, and the challenges she faces as a self-employed decorator. She shares the importance of balancing work and personal life, building trust with clients, and the creative freedom that comes …

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Ep 128 The Building Detective with Craig MacDonald 59:25

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Craig MacDonald is a Chartered Building Surveyor with over 20 years of experience in property and construction sectors. He specialises in construction technology and building pathology in the Australian commercial real estate sector. He’s a fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), the current chair of RICS Member Engagement Gr…

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Ep 127 Navigating the Future of Low-Carbon Homes With Emma Fletcher 1:02:44

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Emma Fletcher is Low-Carbon Housing Director at Octopus Energy and the current Chair of the RICS Residential Professional Group Panel. After qualifying in rural surveying, she moved into housing and regeneration, focusing on affordable housing and sustainability. She is passionate about community resilience and has established a district heat netwo…

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Eps 126 Why Cultural Intelligence Matters In Surveying With Marsha Ramroop 1:01:20

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Marsha Ramroop is an engaging and compelling speaker and former BBC journalist and leader. She’s a global award-winning inclusion strategist, and author with a passion for driving change in the built environment. She sees the sector as an opportunity to influence the creation of a more inclusive world. Marsha was the inaugural Director of Inclusion…

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Ep 125 Building Confidence In Surveying: The Importance Of Communication With Sam Nicholson 1:01:30

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Sam Nicholson is a building surveyor based in the North East. He worked with Maersk Training in offshore wind, and has extensive past experience volunteering with the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. Recognised as Mentor of the Year 2023, Sam has previously served as Matrics Chair, actively supporting young professionals in the industry with a …

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Ep 123 Combining Technical Ability With Emotional Intelligence In Surveying With Mark Duckworth 1:11:01

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Our first 2025 guest is Mark Duckworth, Chartered Surveyor and Director at Martin & Mortimer, a firm founded in 1965 at Bishop’s Stortford. His previous roles include agriculture, accountancy, production management, voluntary work and sales roles, before starting a remedial repair business working with older buildings. As a building surveyor with v…

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Ep 124 The Importance Of Life Experience In Surveying With Hannah Howard-Jones 1:07:16

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Hannah Howard Jones is the Director of Asset Management for Home Group, a housing association with over 58,000 rented and home ownership properties, combining integrated housing, health and social care in supporting their customers to fulfill their aspirations and live independently. Hannah's a chartered residential management surveyor with over 15…

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Joshim Uddin - Development Viability and Social Value 54:58

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Today Marion Ellis chats with Joshim Uddin, a Chartered Surveyor in Tower Hamlets and RICS Matrics Award Winner. Joshim is a Chartered Surveyor who leads a public sector development viability service. The key purpose of his role is to ensure maximum levels of affordable housing/developer contributions is provided as part of planning applications fo…

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George Hooton - Surveying with a Disability 48:04

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Today, Marion Ellis chats with George Hooton, a General Practice Surveyor and the RICS Matrics Commercial Property Surveyor of the Year 2023. A surveyor with a demonstrated history of working in the commercial real estate industry, George works hard both inside and outside of the business to drive a better and more inclusive property profession. In…

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Sinead Clarkson - Driving Diversity in Surveying 1:08:53

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Today Marion Ellis chats with Sinead Clarkson, Chartered Quantity Surveyor, working for PH Plasterers Ltd. As a Chartered Quantity Surveyor and Co-Chair of the NAWIC Yorkshire region (National Association for Women in Construction), Sinead has an interest in improving gender diversity in our profession through support and research, and early engage…

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Chris Rispin - Creating a Better Surveying Profession 1:02:56

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Today, Marion chats with Chris Rispin, the author of many notable books and papers in the residential and valuation surveying sector and a regular contributor to The Surveyor Hub Community. Now retired, Chris was the former Managing Director of BlueBox Partners, previously Technical Director at Allied Surveyors. In this episode, they discuss his ca…

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Alice Graham - Visibility and Technology in Quantity Surveying 50:14

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Today Marion Ellis chats with Alice Graham, Solutions Engineer at Procore Technologies. A Chartered Quantity Surveyor with six years of industry experience, Alice combines industry expertise with a passion for technology to help construction organisations adopt cutting-edge cost management solutions, contributing to the industry's digital transform…

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Michael Schendel - Beyond the Runway: A Journey Into Surveying 56:46

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Today Marion Ellis chats with Michael Schendel, Chartered Surveyor, Chartered Building Engineer and Registered Valuer at SelectSurv. Born and raised in South London, after a successful career in modelling, Michael decided to pursue his ambition to work in the property sector. Working in corporate and private practice, Michael qualified as a Charter…

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Philippa Bancroft - Collaboration and Surveying in the Public Sector 54:21

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Today Marion Ellis chats with Philippa Bancroft, Senior Manager for Public Land at the Greater London Authority. As Senior Manager for Public Land at the Greater London Authority Philippa works with public landowners in London to support them to release land for housing. She is also Vice Chair of the LionHeart board and recently won RICS Matrics Am…

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Ryan Parke - The Science of Men's Mental Health 54:38

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Today Marion Ellis chats with Ryan Parke, The Men’s Coach. Ryan Parke is The Men's Coach, a TEDx Speaker, and an international award-winning public speaker. Ryan works with companies and charities that want to improve mental health for men by taking an evidence-based approach. Ryan's 90-day coaching programme helps men to overcome depression, beat …

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What Surveyors Need to Know About Home Buying Selling with Kate Faulkner 59:46

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In this episode, Marion Ellis chats with Kate Faulkner, OBE, about the Home Buying Selling Group, the work being done to improve home buying in the UK, and the impact it could have on Residential Surveyors in the future. It was recorded as a webinar and shared with The Surveyor Hub Community as an opportunity to answer some of the common queries ar…

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Ep 14 - Property Managers Series: PPM & CAPEX 13:14

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Welcome to Episode 14 and the second full episode in our Building Surveying For Property Managers series. Today we hear from Craig White about PPM & CAPEX. Thanks for listening, subscribing and being part of the Cardoe Martin podcast community. We hope you enjoy listening 😊 but we are always looking to improve and make the podcasts more relevant an…

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Ep 13 - Property Managers Series: Pros & Cons of Hiring A Surveyor 16:24

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Welcome to Episode 13 and the first full episode in our Building Surveying For Property Managers series. Thanks for listening, subscribing and being part of the Cardoe Martin podcast community. We hope you enjoy listening 😊 but we are always looking to improve and make the podcasts more relevant and enjoyable to listen too. If you have any feedback…

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Off-Mains Drainage Surveying with James Warren 58:18

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Today Marion Ellis chats with James Warren, Technical Director of UKDP. UKDP is a drainage company with a specialism for off-mains drainage, providing an installation, repair and survey inspection service for the general public, the insurance industry (insurers/loss adjusters), estate agents, conveyancers, land agents and private estates In this ep…

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Survey Software, Sales, and Solutions with Gavin O'Neill 55:01

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Today Marion Ellis chats with Gavin O’Neill CEO of Go Report. An experienced chartered engineer with expertise in technology and the built environment, Gavin has taken the time to understand the way surveyors work and how technology can support them. Supporting lots of different types of surveying work, GoReport offers a solution to enables digital…

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Safety, Security and Surveying in Saudi Arabia with Craig Ross 49:27

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Many of you know Craig Ross from his time working for the RICS in London as an Associate Director for the Built Environment. Craig is a Chartered Surveyor with 25 years’ experience in the built environment, critical infrastructure, CT, CVE and security consultancy. He is currently the Senior Manager for Safety and Security at the Diriyah Gate Devel…

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Corporate Real Estate Surveying with Bill Jones 54:50

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Bill Jones is an Award-Winning Chartered Surveyor with 20 years’ experience in senior Corporate Real Estate roles. Bill is originally from The Wirral, but he has been residing in Singapore for the last 16 years. He worked on the projects spanning across the Asia-Pacific region and globally, including long-term roles with Rio Tinto and Shell. Aside …

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Residential Surveying and RICS Governing Council with Richard Ballam and Jonathan Milner 1:14:53

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In this bonus episode Marion Ellis chats with Richard Ballam and Jonathan Milner the two Residential seat candidates for the RICS Governing Council elections which close on April 24th 2023. It was recorded as a webinar and shared with The Surveyor Hub Community as an opportunity for the two candidates to share their insights and understanding of th…

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108 Geospatial Surveying with Gordon Johnston 1:29:25

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Gordon Johnston is a Chartered Land Surveyor, a geospatial and hydrographic surveyor with decades of experience in this field. He is a passionate advocate for geospatial and ocean data, conservation, management and sustainable use of oceans and the marine natural capital. Gordon’s field of work is fascinating, and in this episode he explains what a…

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107 Blame, Accountability and How We Make Buildings Safer with Gill Kernick 54:00

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Gill Kernick is an author, speaker and campaigner. In April 2022, Gill joined Arup University as transformation director working to shape a sustainable world. Gill is the author of Catastrophe and Systemic Change: Learning from the Grenfell Tower Fire and Other Disasters. It combines her decades of experience consulting organisations in high hazard…

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106 Building a Career in Residential Surveying with Ian Bullock 43:53

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Ian Bullock is an RICS Chartered Surveyor and Valuer and is Managing Director of Carpenter Surveyors, a practice specialising in all things residential property and real estate - RICS Survey & Valuation for private and secured lending clients and Expert Witness reports. In this episode, we discuss Ian's career path, what made him decide to move fro…

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105 Celebrating a 50 Year Career in Surveying with Kathryn Ladley 1:06:50

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Kathryn Ladley has over 50 years of experience in the construction industry, by profession as a quantity surveyor and project manager. She is also an Associate Director at NPS Leeds, one of the founder members of QSi, and the first female President of SCQS. She is married with two children and two grandchildren. In this episode, we discuss her care…

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104 History, Women and Surveying with Carrie de Silva 55:17

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Carrie de Silva is a Professor of Real Estate Practice Law, working with RICS-accredited courses for many years, Carrie has also developed the materials and taught on the Sava courses for residential surveyors since 2014 and many of you will know her from the Bluebox partners days. In this episode, we chatted about Carrie's career in law, her acade…

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103 Improving the Environmental Impact of Property with Gemma Cornwall 49:49

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Gemma Cornwall is a Building Surveyor and Sustainability Advisor at Anderton Gables, based in the Preston Office. Before making the switch to a career in building surveying, Gemma spent a decade teaching economics in the UK and overseas. Along with her existing qualifications in surveying, she is working towards her APC with the goal of gaining MRI…

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102 From Hairdressing to Award-Winning Surveyor with Zoe Baker 49:55

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Zoe Baker is Managing Director & Founder of Your Surveyors Ltd and the Winner of RICS Young Surveyor of the Year 2022 Award in the Residential Surveying Category. She has been working in the residential surveying industry for almost 10 years in various operational and management roles, and now as a surveyor and business owner. She has achieved the …

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101 Self-Regulation in Surveying with Larry Russen 51:09

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Larry Russen is a well-known speaker, trainer, Chartered Building Surveyor and Spurs fan with more than 40 years’ experience in residential, commercial, and industrial property. Many of you may have heard him train through Sava, deliver CPD or used one of his many books to learn more about surveying or perhaps worked with him at Russen & Turner, Al…

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099 Adventures in Surveying with Stephen Scott-Fawcett 1:04:58

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Stephen Scott-Fawcett recalls his many adventures not only in surveying, but also in exploring Himalayas and Antarctica. Stephen Scott-Fawcett is a Chartered Surveyor since 1978 having been trained by the Valuation Office. He next attended Cambridge University and, after graduating, joined Martin & Mortimer as a full equity partner in June 1987. St…

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098 Challenging Biases in Surveying with Selina Baptiste 46:27

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Selina Baptiste is a Chartered Surveyor with experience in the built environment as a commercial manager and a cost consultant. She is a Quantity Surveyor at Gardiner and Theobald. In this frank and insightful conversation, Selina shares her experiences navigating her career as a woman of colour, a parent seeking work-life balance and the surveyor …

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097 Building a Career in Surveying with Phill Sowden 50:13

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Phill Sowden is an Associate Director at Charles Parker Bennett Surveyors. He has been a residential surveyor since 1988 in Preston & Lancashire and was elected as a member of the RICS in May 1994. He has an impressive track record, having worked throughout the changed ownership at Entwistle Green/Black Horse Surveying Services, BBG Surveyors, Secu…

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096 Leasehold Enfranchisement Explained with Alison Stone 48:32

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Alison Stone MRICS is a Chartered Surveyor, specialising in lease extensions and leasehold enfranchisement valuations, negotiations and tribunals. She has successfully negotiated against many of the large freeholders, getting the best agreements in place for her clients. With award-winning expertise, her company achieved Highly Commended in 2021 En…

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095 To Retrofit or Not to Retrofit with Professor John Edwards 51:14

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Professor John Edwards is a practitioner, researcher and educator working in property and construction with specialisms in building pathology, energy efficiency and dealing with older and historic buildings. John is the lead author of BS7913 the BS for historic buildings and a co-author of BSI standards on retrofit. He is a Director of Edwards Hart…

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Ep 12 - An Introduction To The Building Surveying For Property Managers Series With Graham Cardoe 13:15

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Welcome to Episode 12 of the Building Surveying For Professionals Podcast. This episode also marks the start of a new series dedicated to the world of property management and how it intersects with the world of building surveying. Our short and snappy episodes are designed to help you find solutions to common property management issues and to help …

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Ep 11 - The Secrets Of The APC: The Online Panel From The Candidate's View With Craig White 34:11

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Welcome to Episode 11 and the last in the series of the Secrets of The APC. This episode features Craig White's inaugural podcast recording and he shares an honest and very open view of what the online APC experience was like for him. Featured Questions Include: 1. What era or style of building is of most interest to you or perhaps the one you pref…

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094 Surveyors Making a Difference Through Sustainability 1:00:51

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Why does sustainability need to be at the heart of your surveying business to keep it relevant? On this podcast, your host, chartered surveyor, industry coach, and mentor Marion Ellis chats with Tina Paillet, Co-Founder and CEO of Circotr@de – an innovative start-up creating value from trading second-hand building materials and their embodied carbo…