Additional Building Surveying Services

Maintenance advice:

• Assessing a property’s condition, its future maintenance liability and advising on strategies to improve operational and cost effectiveness.

Dilapidations advice:

• Advising on landlord and tenant’s leasehold liabilities and negotiating a financial settlement at lease expiry.

Building pathology advice:

• The accurate diagnosis of actual or latent building failures.

Project management:

• Developing the clients’ technical, operational and cost requirements to develop into a comprehensive brief.

Project monitoring:

• Protecting the interests of third parties in development projects – principally investment funds, banks, purchasers and tenants – by monitoring progress of the development.

Property legislation advice:

• Advising on the extensive area of property legislation including sale and lease agreements, landlord, tenant and boundary disputes, party wall agreements, disability issues and rights to light.
• Obtaining planning permission, building-control, conservation area and other statutory and non-statutory consents required for the development, operation and maintenance of buildings.
• Acting as an expert witness, arbitrator or mediator.

Miscellaneous services:

• Specialist conservation advice on historic buildings
• Fire Safety strategies
• Construction Quality Audits