Looking after your property efficiently is a challenge. You can always spend money, but spending money wisely is more difficult. When managing a building and the assets within it, longer term planning will often be more cost effective that a short term, reactive approach.
Building surveying covers a wide range of property related services and is most often required when a building changes use. If you are a commercial or public property owner, occupier or tenant, you will probably require building surveying services at some point.
When you engage a surveyor, you need pragmatic advice. We provide this through taking the time to understand your organisation and your objectives. Only then can we provide you with a considered solution from the many varied options that will be open to you.
Our building surveying team carry out measured surveys, review and advise on building maintenance plans, draw up compliance, condition or dilapidation reports and advise on party wall matters. Where appropriate, differing courses of action are discussed and recommendations made.
As with every service we provide, we aim to help you make the right choices for you and your organisation.
Lifecycle management is a term that has sprung up from the PFI/PPP industry. It is concerned with examining the whole life costs of owning and maintaining an asset, be it a building or an item of plant and equipment.
At it's most basic it is getting the right balance between capital expenditure and your planned & reactive maintenance programme to provide optimum value for money.
The expertise of our building engineers combined with our wealth of facilities management experience enables us to advise on strategy development and ongoing programme management.
Everyone responsible for maintenance should have in place capital replacement plans covering at least the next 5 years. But every plan for managing lifecycle costs will be different. Your requirements and priorities are unlikely to be the same as the next person. By working with you to examine priorities for you and your organisation, capital and revenue expenditure can be forecast accurately and you can be sure that you are spending on the areas that matter most to you.