Industrial Open Storage is well established as an institutional real estate sector in the United States. In the UK, IOS is attracting increasing attention from investors, developers, landowners and occupiers - but what will it take for the market to achieve its full potential? This online event examines the development of IOS from both an investment and operational perspective. It will explore the lessons from the US market, the ingredients needed for UK growth, investment and portfolio strategy, site identification and value creation, planning and infrastructure constraints, and - critically - what occupiers actually need.

Module 3 - Land Cost Estimates, Establishing Land Take, Access and PCE (Monday 23 November)

This module will discuss where schemes succeed or quietly fail. It will connect land referencing, design, access, and cost estimation. It will show how early decisions on land take, rights, and access ripple through planning, compensation and delivery. Expect practical insight into Book of Reference, red line boundaries, PCEs and how poor coordination creates avoidable risk.

The Report and Beyond It: Implications for Negotiation, Independence and Dispute Resolution

Surveyors working in rating, compulsory purchase, telecoms and landlord and tenant matters regularly provide professional opinions that may ultimately be placed before a Tribunal, Court, arbitrator or independent expert. But at what point does the surveyor become an expert witness - and what changes, when they do? What is said, written and recorded contemporaneously can affect the evidence available, the facts capable of agreement and the quality of the case ultimately presented. With no way of knowing which negotiations will result in agreement and which will become disputes, the new standard reinforces the importance of good professional practice throughout the advisory and negotiation process; as well as the dispute and disclosure phase.