If you’re selling or buying either, beginning, renewing or ending a lease renovating, building, expanding or repairing commercial property, having an expert in Building Surveying to safeguard your interests can have many advantages.
Building Surveyors provide you with professional, independent, and expert guidance. This will save you time, money, and anxiety in the case of commercial properties. They are able to, and do improve the value of projects with their unique blend of design and construction knowledge and knowledge of property.
1. They are aware of problems with building, Building Regulations, the details for construction agreements, risks of dilapidations Health and Safety Regulations and how to manage teams of experts.
The types of services a building surveyor London can provide include:
2. Project Management: Overseeing the design process and supervising the construction process for major refurbishment and new construction projects from conception until completion.
3. The Development Monitoring Program monitors the progress of major construction projects for freehold investors, financing institutions or tenants, ensuring that the works are planned and constructed according to the development brief and budget.
4. Refurbishment: Controlling the construction process right from the beginning until completion, including the entire post-contract and pre-contract services including financial control and obtaining any required legislative approvals.
5. Schedules of Conditions: Creation of schedules of condition in order to accurately document conditions of leasehold properties on the date of lease start.
6. Dilapidations: Prepared final and interim dilapidations plans for landlords. representing tenants when the final or interim schedules were served.
7. Repairs and Maintenance: The preparation of planned maintenance programs for each property or portfolios, and coordinating all post and pre-contract services related to maintenance and repair projects that result from the program.
8. Specific Building Surveys: Creation of thorough Building surveys before the acquisition of leasehold or freehold rights in industrial and commercial properties.
9. Defect Investigation: Examining building defects, identifying the signs of the problem, their causes, and any necessary repair works, and, if necessary making arrangements repair work to be made.
10. Restitution Cost Assessments for insurance purposes: Inspecting the building, measurement survey (or verify measurements) and the preparation of a reinstatement appraisal on which the landlord and their insurance company can count.
