CPD - Continuing Professional Development

- Current market update reviewing the South East Industrial and Office Markets
- Update on occupier trends
- Impact of Planning
- Review of changes to specification covering Sustainability issues and potential obsolescence factors
- Review of Valuation methodology

Speaker: Chris Strathon MRICS is a Director in the Valuation Advisors Team of Jones Lang LaSalle. He leads the South East Advisory Team working with corporate clients, property investors and banks.

All Levels: Of Interest to General Practice Surveyors, Investors and Owners, Commercial Property Owners, Property Developers, Portfolio Managers

 

- What is the Code for Sustainable Homes?
- Is it mandatory?
- How does it work?
- The categories and issues covered by the Code
- How much does it cost?

Speaker: Joanne Rourke BA(Hons) is Associate Director of Sustainability at Peter Deer and Associates

(Please note this webcast finishes at the point that questions are asked of the audience, it appears to end abruptly)

The Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme (CRC for short) forms part of the UK Government’s drive towards a low carbon economy and is intended to encourage energy efficiency in larger energy users.  From 1 April 2010, most medium to large energy users will be required to measure and report their energy usage (including electricity, gas and fuel oil).  From 1 April 2011, many will also be required to purchase emissions allowances, which will effectively act as permits to emit a given amount of carbon dioxide.  Smaller organisations that are not subject to the CRC may need to make an information disclosure each year as to the amount of energy used, and will probably need to join the next phase of the scheme.
 
This talk will cover the following issues:

The structure of the scheme

- The structure of the scheme
- Who has to join the scheme, and how to register for it
- Obligations for organisations within the scheme
- Buying allowances and calculating the recycling payments
- Consequences for landlords and tenants
- Practical steps that need to be taken now

Speaker: Peter J G Williams LLB is a professional support lawyer at Eversheds LLP

All Levels: Of interest to General Practice Surveyors, Building Surveyors, Valuers, Facilities Managers, Property Agents, Property Investors, Owners and Occupiers, Managing Agents, Property Solicitors, Professional Advisers

Different organisations have distinctive cultures.  An understanding of organisational culture, in relation to your own company, and that of your competitors and your clients, is an essential tool in delivering good service.  This presentation:

• Describes how culture impacts us at the national, organisational and functional levels
• Outlines how apparently subtle differences in culture can lead to major issues
• Introduces a highly effective model of organisational culture and how it can be applied
• Describes the implications of organizational culture on business practices.

Speaker: Andrew Holmes is Managing Partner of Paricint LLP

All Levels: Of interest to anyone who wishes to increase their understanding of their own organisation, and that of their competitors and clients.

 

• Ambiguities in drafting; how wrong can you be and still be right? Coors v Daw; Sec. Of State for Communities v Standard Securities; Margram v Durrant and other cases considered

 

• Treatment of tenant's works? Understanding how to deal with these so as to avoid potential contradictions in 'standard' drafting - Funnell v Adams; Cadogan v Escada

 

• 'Virtual' or assumed comparables? Drafting to avoid the pitfalls?

 

• Is time of the essence? How can you tell?

 

• Treatment of initial rent free periods on review; ensuring you say exactly what you mean….especially ticklish points for large office buildings.

 

Speaker: Keith Hutcheson MA(Cantab) Solicitor is Consultant Nabarro LLP and a Senior Lecturer at the University of Westminster.  Keith has 28 years experience as a solicitor acting for property investors, managers and developers.

Update: Of interest to General Practice Surveyors, Valuers, Property Agents, Property Investors, Owners and Occupiers, Managing Agents, Property Solicitors and Professional Advisers

Six little words that mean so much but do YOU know their true effect?

• Without prejudice to what?
• Subject to what contract?
• If these words are used, can you rely on the document in court?
• Can they invalidate a break clause or rent review notice?
• And what do the judges make of their use?

Speaker: Vivien King BA FInstCPD HonRICS Solicitor is Director of Hatherleigh Training. Vivien lectures, teaches and conducts workshops specialising in property and property litigation issues.

All Levels: Of interest to: All professionals working in the property market - and particularly those who read or write letters, reports and contracts 

• What is insolvency?
• Sectors at risk
• Strategy: Hold v Sell
• Questions for clients
• Clues to remaining solvent

Speaker: Professor Barry Gilbertson PPRICS FNARA MInstD CRE HonANEVAR HonSAIQS has been with PricewaterhouseCoopers since 1992, having previously been managing director of a property investment and development company.  Acknowledged as an expert in property insolvency, a leading fixed charge receiver, and specializing in strategic solutions for real estate within a business context.

Please note that there will be no handout available on the night, but you will be able to download it from this website from the 27th October.

Barry's latest challenge at PwC is to bring his experience and expertise to work out the c$15bn (gross) real estate investment assets of, and corporate property occupied by, Lehman Brothers within the Administration.  Barry's team are also working on Castlemore and Oakdene, respectively the largest commercial and residential property company casualties of this recession so far.

All Levels: Of Interest to Investment Surveyors, General Practice Surveyors, Valuers, Investors, Developers, Property Companies, Banks, Property Solicitors, Property Managers and Professional Advisers

* Why do people have boundary / neighbour disputes?
* How to handle clients
* Basic measurement tips
* Report writing
* Giving evidence in court
* A European-type Cadastre?
* RICS Neighbour Disputes Service

Speaker: David Powell FRICS FRGS MAE is Chairman, David J Powell FRICS and a leading expert in Boundary and Rights-of-Way dispute resolution.  He is one of the prime movers in the RICS Neighbour Dispute Service and the author of "Anstey’s Boundary Disputes" (RICS Books).  David has lectured on the subject of "Neighbours at War" throughout Europe and in the West Indies and has featured on BBC TV and radio.

All Levels: Of Interest to General Practice Surveyors, Valuers, Building Surveyors, Architects, Developers, Property Managers, Property Solicitors and Professional Advisers

    * What has changed to the Red Book
    * Market Value v Worth
    * Application of Red Book in challenging times
    * Who understands uncertainty
    * Understanding the minimum requirements

Speaker: Duncan Preston FRICS is one of the UK's best-known valuers and is the Director of Valuation at Aston Rose. He has extensive experience having been Valuation Director at Jones Lang LaSalle. Duncan is currently an RICS vice-president.

Update: Of interest to General Practice Surveyors, Valuers, Property Owners, Investors and Developers, Property Agents, Property Managers, Property Solicitors and Professional Advisers

In this lecture, Andrew Holmes will present a whistle-stop tour of risk management. During the presentation he will:

    * Describe the nature of risk today
    * Outline why risk management is critical to every organisation
    * Highlight why we often get the balance wrong (too much risk, or too little)
    * Introduce an effective framework for managing risk
    * Discuss the impact of culture on risk
    * Identify key roles and responsibilities
    * Summarise the ten steps to successful risk management

Speaker: Andrew Holmes is Managing Partner of Paricint LLP and his book on Risk Management can be found here.

All Levels: Of interest to anyone who wishes to understand the importance of risk management in the current climate and that’s everyone!

Elizabeth de Burgh Sidley BA(Hons) FRICS is a Partner at Drivers Jonas

• What is a right to light?
• How do you measure it?
• Can you assist clients to minimise the problem?
• Injunction or compensation?
• The lead cases to know

All Levels: Of interest to General Practice Surveyors, Building Surveyors, Designers, Architects, Quantity Surveyors, Property Owners, Investors and Developers, Property Managers, Property Solicitors and Professional Advisers

Kirk Reynolds QC HonRICS HonMemberArbrix is a Member of Falcon Chambers and will present on:

• A review of important, recent or topical cases in commercial landlord and tenant law
• House of Lords decision: Notifying original tenants /guarantors of pending rent review
• House of Lords decision: Proprietory estoppel. Satisfying the equity
• Service charges
• Rights of light
• Rectification of leases

John Organ FRICS is a Consultant for Cushman & Wakefield, advising their network of 29 European offices on Best Practice.  He brings his experience to the topic of the current downturn:

• Lessons learnt from the last three recessions
• Ways to reduce the cost base
• Talk the language of the Financial Director
• How to extract cash from the portfolio
• Maximise disposals and acquisitions

Professor Malcolm Hollis BSc(EstMan) FRICS MCIArb FBEng MAE is a renowned Building Pathologist and Surveyor.  He specialises in Defect Recognition, the Diagnosis of the Cause of Failure and the interpretation of Liability for such matters as Dilapidations, Service Charges and Risk Analysis.

This evening's lecture will investigate surveying during a recession:

• Find the risk
• Evaluate the risk
• Remove the risk
• Pass on the risk

Lessons from the recessions of the 1970s and 1980s

Louise Hosking MCIEH MIOSH is Director of Hosking Associates Ltd and she works with a variety of clients as a freelance Safety Director to give direction to companies and enable them to manage safety effectively throughout their organisations.

The lecture will comprise an update on Health and Safety issues, common pitfalls and recent
cases

• Protecting lone workers
• Personal risk assessments for your employees
• Managing slips, trips and falls
• Control of legionella and asbestos

Graham North MRICS MCIArb is a Partner at Anstey Horne & Co. He is Editor of "The Party Wall Surveyors' Manual", contributed to the latest edition of the RICS Guidance Note and has also updated John Anstey's book "Party Walls & What to do with Them" which has just been published by the RICS. This evening he brings his experience of Party Walls to the CPD Foundation:

• When Notices need to be served and upon whom
• Dealing with basement excavations and underpinning
• The ‘special foundation’ issue
• Addressing difficulties with access for scaffolding
• Making referrals to the Third Surveyor

Barry Denyer-Green LLM PhD FRICS HonMember CAAV is Vice Chairman Compulsory Purchase Association and a Barrister at Falcon Chambers, specializing in, amongst other things, compulsory purchase and compensation matters acting for claimants and acquiring authorities. This evening's lecture will cover:

• Pending legislation: the Planning Bill compulsory purchase powers: is it a Trojan horse?
• Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007: goodbye to the Lands Tribunal
• Valuation: ascertaining the planning status: windfalls and problems
• Valuation: severance and injurious affection problems to retained land
• Third party rights and compensation
• Compensation and scheme
• Disturbance compensation: surveyors or accountants?
• Evidence: the expert’s proof

Ant Wilson BSc(Hons) is a Director of Faber Maunsell and has worked on a wide range of construction and research projects mainly from an energy performance perspective:

Why Zero Carbon Technologies?
• Government targets for buildings
• Government targets for renewable energies

Heating Technologies
• Solar thermal hot water
• Solar warm air heating
• Heat pump technologies
• Biomass boilers

Electrical Technologies
• Photovoltaics
• Wind energy
• Hydro power
• Marine power (tidal and wave)

Combined
• CHP (Combined Heat and Power) systems, biomass and fuel cells

- Section 25 notices and Section 26 requests – content and service
- Options following service of an unopposed Section 25 notice or Section 26 request
- Opposed lease renewals – grounds of opposition
- Opposing on ground of development
- Recent cases under the Landlord & Tenant Act 1954

- Monetary default and remedies
- The effect of Scottish and Newcastle v Raguz (2007) on the ability to pursue former tenants and guarantors
- Non-monetary default and remedies
- The replacement of distress
- The replacement of forfeiture?

- Occupier demand
- The development pipeline
- Investor sentiment
- Current lease agreements and rent review issues
- In-town versus out-of-town
- The food sector

- Development risks
- Why pre-let?
- What is an Agreement to Lease
- What is in the Agreement
- Risks attaching to the agreement
- What if the contracted tenant wants to withdraw during the development phase?

- Property markets
- SWOT analysis
- Value drivers
- Tips for professionals
- 3 short case studies

- The importance of As Built Programmes
- The records required for As Built Programmes
- How good records can be used in creating the As Built Programme
- How related use of the records is made in disruption claims

- Spotting the defects
- Water's ways of getting in
- Mould - can it be prevented?
- Structure's failure

- Clarifying some misconceptions
- Reminder about discrimination in the property world
- Do you know the difference between a physical feature and an auxiliary aid?
- How do you and your client deal with a disabled tenant's request to conduct alterations at home and business premises?
- And how are the courts dealing with cases of discrimination in the property world?

- What are the key changes arising from the CDM Regulations 2007?
- How will they affect members of the project team?
- What do they need to do in order to comply?
- Where can they obtain guidance?

- The landlord's code
- What does the tenant need to do?
- Where are the tensions?
- What could happen next?