Building consultants and construction consultancy services

Following RICS best practice standards, our experts look into every aspect of a property’s build – from its general condition, to whether the interior layout is fit for requirements – producing reports to help you reach a considered decision.

As a client, you could be a purchaser, vendor, lender, developer, owner or occupier - we’ve accumulated a vast amount of experience of acting for every client type, and offer a flexible service designed to fit your exact needs.

As well as advising on the core elements of property - structure and fabric, building engineering services, legal and compliance matters, energy and sustainability, maintenance and projected capital expenditure – we also have specialists in narrower areas. Façade design and performance, fire life safety, environmental matters, materials testing and services validation are just a few of the other services we offer, allowing for technical reports an unusual degree of depth and scope.

We’re also conscious of the impact of environmental legislation on your property, particularly in relation to energy use. We also know that one of your key considerations could well be the cost of wasted energy. Our highly experienced sustainability and MEP teams are available to further bolster your report.

Dilapidations issues (lease liabilities relating to repairing, decorating, and creating or removing alterations and additions) feature at every stage of a lease, from the consideration of liabilities when a new lease is agreed, to the enforcement of lease covenants during the term, break options, surrenders, end of term building works, and the negotiation of financial settlements.

We work on every type of property; from industrial warehouses to listed historic mansions, and from small office floors to multi hectare sites and from small financial claims to multi million pound schedules of dilapidations. Our team’s strength lies in its multi-disciplinary approach, which harnesses knowledge and experience from specialist areas across the company. It gives our dilapidations experts a uniquely rounded view and the ability to consider a dilapidations issue in its full context.

A thorough understanding of the client’s project is always our starting point. Once we’ve built up a clear, detailed picture of their business, we proceed to analyse the project’s cash-flow, budget, feasibility and viability. We add value by finding ways to rein in unnecessary expenditure, without impacting on quality or the project timeframe.

Our service delivery is overarching and integrated.

Our mechanical and technical engineers collaborate closely with our project managers, who in turn work together with our cost management team and other experts across the company. The result is seamless, covering every part of the project lifecycle.

We bring buildings to life, by enhancing, upgrading and augmenting the working and living environment. From our clients’ perspective, the expert advice and support we provide can raise productivity and efficiency, and boost the marketability of a property.

We’re made up of more than ten engineers, each with extensive experience in building engineering services. We assist clients in every sector with property acquisition, real estate development and with building operations, deploying a wide range of specialist services to help them achieve their goals. We understand that each client’s objectives are unique, which is why we’ve developed a collaborative and integrated approach to support you in the management, renewal or maintenance of your property.

Our building engineering consultants help clients to cut down their energy expenditure, and reduce wastage. Low energy, sustainable design is our forte: We take an in-depth look at a client’s current or planned property, and advise on the installation and operation of heating, cooling, ventilation, lighting, power, life safety, plumbing and energy management systems -including lifts and escalators.

That advice also covers property transactions and management, with a spectrum of due diligence and real estate services at your disposal.

Services provided by our building engineering experts include the following:

Technical due diligence
We carry out technical due diligence surveys, rent reviews, dilapidation assessments and scheduling, and building and energy audits. We also offer MEP trouble shooting and utility searches.

Building engineering design
Feasibility and scheme design reports, building refurbishment design, tenant fit out design, planning and EIA support and site-wide infrastructure strategies are all within our team’s remit. They conduct space planning , passive and sustainable building design, vertical transportation design and utility diversion works and new supplies.

Building performance engineering and management
We carry out building and energy audits, and help clients to draw up an energy strategy. That strategy may include us working on EPC certificates, Energy performance improvement plans, air conditioning certificates, maintenance strategy, planned preventative maintenance plans, plant replacement and upgrade, and building re-commissioning and de-commissioning.