Building Surveyor’s Pocket Book

Dr Melanie Smith, FRICS, GIFireE, NRAC Consultant, PGCHE, Leeds Sustainability Institute, Leeds Beckett University. Melanie is a Building Surveyor and Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors with over 40 years' experience in local authority, private practice, and education sectors. She has been a graduate member of the Institution of Fire Engineers and on the National Register of Access Consultants. Melanie has worked on all types and sizes of buildings for professional services, compliance, fire, access, retrofit, and upgrade purposes, with expertise in conflicting requirements. She has been instrumental in governmental and institutional guidance and codes. Melanie is a member of the Leeds Sustainability Institute, a past Chair of the Yorkshire branch of the RICS Building Surveyors, a Civic Trust Award assessor, and has sat on BSi and RICS working groups. Her doctorate, awarded in 2019, is entitled "A Study of Building Surveying Praxes to Inform Design of Thermal Retrofit". This identifies common shortcomings of retrofit solid wall insulation measures and determines an appropriate approach for pre-design retrofit building surveys.