Here is a tutorial on what to do exactly, to update your Management System according to the new amendment about climate change: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rZmsmYirZaqnl68

On the Wrexham shorter route I'd expand that down to Shrewsbury, a new station at Oswestry is being built also. Its dual tracked also.

Thank you for this video! Clear, simple, objective, helpful and very much practical. Please keep up the great work. Cheers from an environmental engineer working with ISO 14001 in Brazil!

Well, Dave, that was a proper car crash for me!! Highlighted a lot of stuff I don't know (which is good while I have a chance to fix that). Sustainability has always been a hard one for me to wrap my head around because, in the context of the APC, it all seems so woolly. In my Summary of Experience I've been writing about more QS-specific things, such as The Chancery Lane Project which is trying to develop "green clauses" to add into construction projects. How often do you think that more general questions such as on the Paris Agreement or the Brundtland Report get asked at interview, and what is the aim of the assessor when they're asking the more general questions? Looking forward to Ethics! Will it be feature length? :D

Hi, can you give any indication as to what the future format to become MRICS may look like? I’m currently doing my APC and it takes too long to achieve the status. I know people who have ditched it and gone MCIOB as the process is much simpler.

I remember when I was referred. I studied, I knew lots of level 1 stuff but honestly my L2/3 competence was not broad and deep enough. Also, I didn't study 'the right way' to pass. Having said that I was doing well at work and highly recognised for my value.The assessors were positive and fair people, and made the right decision. Great experience even if I failed. Having said that, in several occasions, I saw 'not so great' QSs who studied with tutors passing the APC whilst colleagues who were great QSs, busy at work, great with clients, being referred. Mainly because they didn't study in 'the right way' or broad enough. I appreciate what the current assessment method is trying to do, however, I think candidates should be assessed as if they were playing a 'league' rather than if they were playing a 'cup final'. Not many clients need advice on the spot. Often emails are sent and it is fine to get back to them within a few hours or a day with the correct data driven piece of advice. I understand the league assessment idea is difficult to implement due to location. There are lots of good QSs around who aren't chartered.

I'm from Canada and have no clue what you are talking about or what those acronyms mean but what I do know is that your shirt represents three of the coolest guys of all time...RUSH! (;

Get over it, we have to use the boxes that are provided 🙄

The 387/1/2 Gatwick Express operates third rail routes has if it went to Ashfield international it can go from the 750 volts of third rail to the 2500 it will raise the pantograph hope this helps

Do you include appendix citations in brackets in the word count?

Do you include appendix citations in brackets in the word count?

Do you include appendix citations in brackets in the word count?

Do you include appendix citations in brackets in the word count?

It would be interesting to see if the GWR/Vivarail fast charging system could be used to extend the battery range of the 777's.

Can you be my councilor?

Excellent

17 Billion swashing around...so how about linking the new proposed route (Lpl / Mcr) via Liverpool Airport and Speke?

Right then, Dave, here’s a question - something I’ve often wondered since I started implementing ISO9001 and later 14001. Why do these standards always seem to end in a 1? I hadn’t heard of 27001 before but know of the existence of 54001.

Thanks

Here's something I've been wondering for some time. When you are asked a question in an APC setting that has a straight forward, simple answer (Eg. Name a type of Business Plan), my instinct is to answer the question as it's posed (Eg. Strategic plan). Should I be looking to always expand upon my answer to show the breadth of my knowledge or will this be considered as me "waffling on" to avoid taking more questions in the 25 min session? Should I wait to see if the panel ask me a follow-up question before expanding further?

I enrolled in 2009 and got laid off in 2010. Spent 5 years doing... very little. Bits of ad hoc work but nothing of substance. Started back full time work since 2015 and now have 13 full years of experience. I contacted the RICS back in March to ask about re-enrolling. To my surprise they were very positive. "Yeah, come back, no problem"... got my assessment route sorted out and didn't charge me anything. The latter is what amazed me the most... I was fulling expecting "Sorry, bro, you breached the 6 year rule so you gotta pay again". When it comes down to it, every chartered surveyor pays a higher monthly fee... presumably the RICS want more people paying higher fees so it is in their interests to not lock people out. The 6 year rule feels very arbitrary. Anyway, I'm making a proper go of it now, I'd like to feel comfortable to sit it in November but might yet park it until next May if I don't feel ready as it's a LOT of work to get done before the submission deadline.

Man made climate change must be proven - it cannot - all we have are computer models without any validation possible - so man made climate change is un-scientific because it cannot be tested. Please tell me were I am wrong? I do not agree of burning oil, gas or coal these resources are best used to make fertilizers and polymers.

As a student - 40 years ago - I used to walk from Oxford to Islip and back for a Sunday lunch in the Red Lion pub.

Ive been working on it,.basically its been a total rush, was supposed to start 2 years ago and they have tried to complete it within a stupid timescale, hence everthing is last minute and rushed, then had a knock to other trades...it needed another 3to 4 months, instead of flooding it with thousands of workmen...

So, for Level 2 in the summary of experience I understand I’m supposed to give examples of how I’ve fulfilled the competency. For Health and Safety, when asked a level 2 question, should I be trying to back up my answer with an example from my experience? Honestly, the level 2 questions in this video feel very similar to level 1; am I just not understanding the difference in the type of questions? If they’re similar I’m a bit worried about how to identify level 1 from level 2.

I doubt it!

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Be seeing you too. Thank you.

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In Spain, they actually raise both (where applicable), to keep the train with electric current, or just leave a cab on.

Hard copy journals ….. those were the days

David, thanks for the post. A few things stand out from the information publicly available and openly shared: - Concerns had been raised with the RICS regarding the individual by several parties from early 2022, yet they were not suspended until May 19, 2023. It appears their RICS registration/renewal was in June/July 2022, they were shortlisted for the RICS Young Surveyor of the Year in September, filed for bankruptcy in October, and received a Fellowship in early 2023. - A homeowner who was directly impacted from has publicly stated that the RICS claim they were first informed about ‘serious’ concerns in late 2022. Others have publicly challenged this RICS statement as incorrect. - Professional Indemnity Insurance (PII) - Companies are required to confirm they have PII when they register/renew, yet it could expire shortly after, and no reminder is sent to the registered company to request evidence it has been renewed. The RICS website states the 'Regulated by RICS' designation conveys to the marketplace that your firm … ‘Provides adequate and appropriate indemnity for your work.’ This is an incorrect statement, as highlighted in the case above. It is not great and erodes public and member trust in the RICS

Do I understand correctly that this lady lied on an application to, not only become a member, but also a fellow? Notwithstanding all the other lying and breaches of the code of conduct for members and firms that follows the initial passage, is it really that easy to get into the RICS? You can just lie and it's all taken "on trust", presumably on a basis of "the truth will out", and when the truth is out, the RICS reserves the right to strike you off? I'm not sure if I understood that correctly so do let me know if I haven't. I would have expected the RICS to have done some kind of background checks, no? When I restarted my APC journey last month they had me e-mail copies of degree certificates, etc. that I had assumed would be checked out with the respective educational institutions.... but this isn't done as a matter of course?

Thank you

Hi great video. When will the others be available? Thanks

Your KZbin videos are incredible and valuable. They are more than eye opening. Thanks

Making these videos may be just a hobby for you but they cover lots of key topics and are useful to watch. If you are looking for ideas on topics to cover just get in touch. Thank you

Great Video but i think you should add another category demand and therefore likely passenger usage , you do touch on theses subjects the airport link would score a definite 10.

I've just decided to stop mucking about and go for APC which I'm hoping will be November, after working as a QS for well over 10 years. I discovered this channel a few weeks ago and found it super helpful so far, so excited to see this new range of videos you have teased. I was curious about CPD and, from what you say, perhaps it's not as rigid as I might have first anticipated. I have already noted one of your own recorded lectures on ethics down on my CPD register on the RICS website but in the back of my mind was thinking I should consider doing an extra couple of hours over and above the 24 hours formal CPD required just to "fully cover myself" in the event that a KZbin video isn't considered "formal". Perhaps that's not necessary if you really can set your own learning outcomes & targets. I am picking CPD topics that I feel deficient in, which I trust is the way to go whether you're going for APC or not, but curious to hear if candidates ever get challenged in an APC if an assessor disagrees that something noted against "formal" is actually "informal"? I always presumed that the assessors would look at your CPD before Assessment and tailor some questions to it to check to see if you were lying about it.

Would help if you actually held the camera up so we can see where you're going 🙄

More galavanting on this channel please! Also 20th of May 2017? I don’t recall any terrorist attacks on that day at the Manchester arena

What do I need to know to bring this competency to level 3?

What a load of twaddle. You can bet this will not be a benefit of the people.

36.03 i was there. Blast from the past

Clear as mud. Actually when in a terminus the driver usually is taking a break or changing trains. Said driver has to isolate the train from being moved however on board systems such as lighting will continue to run on battery supply until the driver returns or a new driver takes over inserts control key and raises pan.

Thank you for the shoutout, David - My experiences were similar to yours's at @BlackburnRovers at our home match of @BrentfordFC v @mancity with no sign of the initiative except for the stadium advertising during the match at the Gtech Stadium. Great potential let down by poor execution. Fans and Clubs, rightly, demand performance on the field (sadly, we lost against Manchester City) with environmental sustainability as a distant runner-up. More to come on @EMSmastery about recent @premierleague developments.

Interesting. I'm currently in a varied building surveying role with a MRICS degree who offer APC. However I'm interested in going into valuation/residential surveying with companies offering assocRICS I guess due to less varied type of work. Can't make my mind up, go into something I'm actually interested in and get MRICS later down the line, or stay in the role I'm in and go for MRICS now. Decisions decisions

Do you prepare flood risk assessments?

What usually happens to me is that something small, light, and not fragile comes in a correctly sized box with tons of packaging. But when I order something heavy and/or fragile, they come in a box that's 20 times the size of the item without any packaging.