The conference caters for all aspects of the research and academic base of the chartered surveying profession and provides an important forum for educators, researchers and practitioners to meet, and to discuss the latest research developments in the field. The conference also hosts the annual RICS Legal Research Symposium and the inaugural meeting of the Law Postgraduate Research Forum (CIB W113 Student Chapter), organised in partnership with CIB Working Commission W113, and features special conference streams in knowledge management and biodiversity and the built environment.