Great site Surveying encapsulates a wide and varied profession ranging across property, construction and land sectors, and takes on numerous roles in surveying and valuing all types of properties. While they employ a common group of skills in their job, the role of a Chartered Surveyor varies from project to project.

At most basic level, the Chartered Surveyor values a property and assesses it for defects or anything of notable interest to the client. However, their role then expands into creating a number of surveys, giving advice, solving disputes, considering environmental issues, overseeing construction projects and commercial properties, plus a whole host of other areas.

In the residential property sector, Chartered Surveyors provide a wide variety of services for every type of property, such as survey and valuation advice to home-owners or buyers, building defect advice (which talks about issues such as for example dampness and condensation, flooding, cracks, timber defects and many more) or valuations for tax or separation purposes. They also offer advice on building and land disputes, whether a dispute has arisen from a neighbour over a proposed building project or alterations to a preexisting property, or a disagreement between the property owner and contractor over the quality, time or cost of the building. The surveyor can investigate the situation, and then guide a house owner on the best plan of action to take. Chartered Surveyors may also deal with disputes over the Party Wall Act 1996, an operation which should be followed where properties share a wall or party fence wall.

Chartered Surveyors are also able to offer Expert Witness reports on a variety of issues. These reports are normally required in legal disputes, and will become evidence in a court of law. In nearly all cases, these reports are given in the form of a written statement or report, however they are sometimes delivered orally in court. The Chartered Surveyor can be used by either party and must act with complete impartiality.

Outside residential properties, Chartered Surveyors also offer a range of services. For instance, Construction Surveyors manage ongoing construction projects, Environmental Surveyors look at issues concerned with a building's environment or the impact of a fresh construction, Technical Surveyors concentrate on the use and safety of equipment and machinery within a business, and Mineral and Mining Surveyors look at mineral resources, management of waste, and seek potential sites, mines and quarries.