This article looks at educating and training building appraisers of the
future. It outlines a different form of building appraisal, where those engaged in
the surveying are actually the clients, and the recipient of the report facilitates the
survey ’ s outcomes. By establishing the preference of three of the four stakeholders
to surveying education for incorporation of vocational skills training, as well as
academic learning, the author justifi es the use of simulated surveying instructions
to meet these dual requirements. The article focuses on a case study of one such
simulation carried out with the fi nal-year undergraduate Building Surveying
students at Sheffi eld Hallam University. Pedagogy is proposed and justifi ed using
established enquiry-based learning techniques, and vocational instruction taken
from published works on professional building surveying. Requirements of a
professional surveyor are established from one of the stakeholders ’ , the Royal
Institution of Chartered Surveyors, code of practice guidelines and by using
feedback from clients obtained from an academic survey. Specialist legal advice
with regard to surveyor negligence and contractual obligation is applied. Details
of the property, the surveys undertaken and the methodology employed by the
learners on site are described. Outcomes from the surveys are evaluated to form
conclusions about whether this form of building appraisal successfully delivers
both vocational and academic learning, and consequentially whether such surveys
should become more commonplace

• Providing vocational skills and academic knowledge to the professional building appraisers of the future