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What is the RICS Surveying Safely: H&S Principles for Property Professionals, 2nd Edition (2018)?

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Guidance note on personal and corporate responsibilities, hazards and risks, occupational health/hygiene, fire safety, contractor management and residential surveying

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What are the four stages of inspection?

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  1. Desktop
  2. Location
  3. Internal
  4. External
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What do you look for at an external inspection?

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  1. Repair
  2. Signs of forced entry
  3. Hazards or contamination
  4. Japanese knotweed
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Reasons for inspection in valuation?

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  1. Location
  2. Condition
  3. Occupational details
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Reasons for inspection in Landlord and Tenant?

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  1. Rent reviews
  2. Lease renewal
  3. Check for alterations and improvements
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Reasons for inspection in Property Management

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  1. Lease compliance
  2. Repairing convent
  3. Defects
  4. Statutory compliance
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What are some deleterious materials?

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  1. Mundic
  2. High aluminic cement
  3. Calcium chloride cement
  4. Radon gas
  5. Lead paint
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What does the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 suggest you need?

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  1. Duty holder
  2. Asbestos register
  3. Management plan
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What is a high alumina cement?

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Rapid strength development, used in pre cast beams, but buildings collapsed so banned in 1970’s

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What is calcium chloride cement and when was it banned?

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It is an accelerating mixture but it caused corrosion to embodied metals and was banned in the 1970’s

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Name three types of cavity wall ties

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  1. Butterfly
  2. Vertical twist
  3. Double triangular
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What re the suggested four steps of an inspection?

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  1. Consider your personal safety
  2. Inspection of the local area
  3. External inspection
  4. Internal inspection
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What do you need to take with you on an inspection?

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  1. Mobile phone
  2. Camera
  3. Tape measure / Laser
  4. File, plans and other supporting information
  5. PPE
  6. Pen and paper
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What needs to be considered in the immediate area during an inspection?

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  1. Location / aspect / local facilities / public transport / business vibrancy
  2. Contamination / environmental hazards / flooding / high voltage powerlines / electrical substations
  3. Comparable evidence / local market conditions / agent boards
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What re the reasons to conduct an inspection?

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  1. Valuation
  2. Property management
  3. Agency
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What are the four types of foundations?

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  1. Trench or strip
  2. Raft
  3. Piled
  4. Pad
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Name the different types of brickwork.

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  1. Solid wall construction
  2. Cavity wall construction
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What is a stretcher?

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A brick laid horizontally, flat with the long side of the brick exposed on the outer face of a wall

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What is a header?

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A brick laid flat with the short end of the brick exposed

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What is efflorescence?

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White marks caused by hydroscopic salts in the brick work.

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What is spalling?

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This is damaged brickwork where the surface of the bricks starts to crumble due to freeze thaw

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What are the different types of air conditioning?

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  1. VAV - variable air volume
  2. Fan coil - usually 4 pipe
  3. VRV - variable refrigerant volume
  4. Static cooling - chilled beam
  5. Mechanical ventilation
  6. Heat recovery systems
  7. Comfort cooling
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What are the different types of fitout?

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  1. Shell and core
  2. Category A
  3. Category B
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What is an inherent defect?

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A defect in the design or a material which has always been present

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What is a latent defect?
A fault to the property that could not have been discovered by a reasonably thorough inspection of the property
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What are the suggested steps when identifying a building defect?
1. Take photographs of the defects 2. Establish the casue of the damage 3. Notify the client 4. Recommend specialist advice
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What are the three common causes of a defect?
1. Movement 2. Water 3. Defective building materials
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Define subsidence.
The vertical downward movement of a building foundation casued by the loss of support of the site beneath the foundation
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Define heave.
The expansion of ground beneath all or part of a property
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What could horizontal cracking indicate?
Cavity wall tie failure
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What is shrinkage cracking casued by?
Often the drying of new plasterwork
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What is wet rot?
Caused by damp and timber decay
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What is dry rot?
Caused inside by fungal attack
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Made some common building defects.
Dry rot, wet rot, tile slippage, damp, water ingress, movement, water damage internally, damaged cladding, efflorescence
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Give examples of contamination.
1. Heavy metals 2. Radon 3. Methane gas 4. Diesel/oil/chemicals
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Give examples of signs of contamination.
1. Chemicals 2. Oils 3. Oil drums 4. Subsidence 5. Subsidence 6. Underground tanks 7. Bare ground
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What are the three typical phases of an investigation?
1. Review of site history with a desk top review 2. Investigation to identify the nature of contamination 3. Remediation report setting out remedial options
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What approached should be taken when valuing a site with contamination?
1. Do not provide advice until a specialist report is commissioned 2. Caveat the advice provided with an appropriate disclaimer highlighting the issue/use of a special assumption 3. Deduct the remediation costs from the gross site value
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Give examples of deleterious materials.
1. High alumina cement 2. Woodwool shuttering 3. Calcium chloride
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Give examples of hazardous materials
1. Asbestos 2. Lead piping/paintwork 3. Radon gas
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What is Japanese Knotweed?
An invasive plant species that can damage hard surfaces such as foundations and tarmac

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