Commercial Building Surveys

Our Services

We can provide a wide range of surveying services, including:

Acquisition Surveys

We carry out thorough but commercially driven acquisition surveys on leasehold and freehold property to provide a clear understanding of a building’s condition and any impediments to its performance as a working asset.

Aside from identifying building defects, we provide summary comments on statutory compliance issues and deleterious materials, and state where specific key legal enquiries or further investigations are required.

Defect Analysis

Building defect analysis involves meticulously inspecting the property to identify the likely cause of a specific defect. This service can be essential for maintaining business continuity, occupier comfort and health and safety standards of the building, sometimes preventing minor issues from escalating into major problems.

Planned Maintenance Surveys

The most effective approach to maintaining a larger property is to implement a planned maintenance programme. These are designed to ensure that any potential issues are dealt with before a problem occurs, reducing the amount of reactive maintenance and allowing budgets to be planned in advance.

This proactive approach saves you money in the long run. By catching problems early, you can fix them whilst they are still minor, which is usually less expensive than dealing with more significant repairs later on.

We understand that a ‘one size fits all’ approach to maintenance planning is inappropriate and planned maintenance should consider how a client owns or manages the property and whether there are upcoming lease events or warranty conditions that may influence the programme for repairs.

Schedules of Condition

We prepare detailed Schedules of Condition to document a property’s state at a specific time.

Essential for lease agreements, a schedule of condition sets a benchmark to avoid disputes over damage or maintenance responsibilities. It also aids in dispute resolution and maintenance planning by highlighting existing issues and areas needing future attention, ensuring clear responsibilities for both parties.

Dilapidations Assessments

Our dilapidations assessments help tenants understand their obligations and potential financial exposure regarding the condition of leased properties. Dilapidations assessments are commonly used to enable a tenant to make an accounting accrual or to help decide whether to stay or move.

Feasibility Studies

We undertake feasibility assessments to assist you in gauging a property’s potential before making any substantial investment. These evaluations analyse the feasibility of suggested initiatives, considering structural, regulatory, and financial elements.

Insurance Reinstatement Cost Assessments

Our insurance reinstatement cost assessments ensure that your property is adequately insured. We provide accurate valuations for rebuilding costs in the event of a total loss, helping you to avoid the risk of underinsurance.

How we work with you

Our reports are written in clear English and supported by photographs and diagrams, with RAG ratings for contextualising findings where necessary.

Our clear and detailed reports help you make informed decisions about property management, maintenance, and investment. By presenting our findings in a straightforward and accessible manner, we ensure that you can easily understand the issues and take appropriate action.

We aim to inspect a property within 4 working days of instruction and issue our report within 7 working days after that.

We cover Bristol, Bath, the South West, Midlands, M4 corridor and Wales. Contact us today to learn more about how we can help you with your survey.