Our range of building surveys and reports, carried out by our expert team of chartered building surveyors, can help you assess your property risk, understand technical issues and formulate clear strategic plans to manage your asset.

Our reports are completed by an expert chartered building surveyor, who will look at the specific technical and commercial issues that concern your property assets. Each report is designed to give decision makers and stakeholders the information they need and to be clear and easy to use for experts and non experts alike.

Supporting your decision making – from insurance to dilapidations liability

Our expert chartered building surveyors specialise in surveying and reporting for all situations – from defects analysis to space audits and from insurance to dilapidations liability. 

We understand the construction of buildings and how commercial property can be maintained and adapted, as well as the importance of wider commercial considerations, such as technological, legislative, health and safety, environmental and legal liabilities.

No matter what your concern, we can look into it for you. Some of the questions we can help you with include:

• What is my dilapidations liability?
• What condition is my building in – and what are the possible consequences?
• What do I need to know before signing a Schedule of Condition?
• Do I have suitable building insurance?
• What risks do I face from building defects?
• Does my building comply with the Disability Discrimination Act?
• Am I making the best use of my property?

Reporting backed by experience and specialist expertise

Our expert chartered building surveyors inspect over 6m sq ft of property each year for clients including the BBC, AXA, Boots, Tesco, Heineken, Henderson, HSBC, Mapeley, Lloyds Banking Group, various local authorities and police authorities.

We survey all building types from offices, industrial & logistics, retail and alternative assets like hotels, leisure, and heritage/listed buildings.

Our construction cost consultancy service will give you the confidence that your construction project is delivering the best value for money.

Our experienced team will help you procure the most cost-effective solution for your new build or refurbishment project, and ensure potential risks to the budget are identified and mitigated.

We cover new build, Cat A and Cat B refurbishment and fit outs, together with repair and maintenance projects, from major residential, office and industrial projects to alternative specialist buildings such as hotels, care homes, prisons and other civic buildings. 

Best procurement value

Our construction and cost consultants will devise and manage the procurement process, benchmarking costs against other projects.

Once the contractors are picked, we develop a cost plan so you know what outgoings to expect at every stage of the project

We also offer the following services – contract administration, performance management and cost auditing.

Development cost advice for the public sector

As well as development cost advice to private developers, our construction cost consultants provide financial analysis to public sector bodies embarking on joint ventures, regeneration or development partnerships.

Ensure best value in project delivery too

Our construction cost consultancy is often delivered alongside, or as part of, our construction project management service.

Find out more about our construction project management service

Our specialist construction project managers have years of experience and are all RICS and CIOB qualified. They will take full responsibility for ensuring your project is delivered on time and meets all necessary building regulations and quality standards.

Make sure your new build or refurbishment project goes to plan – and stays on budget – by using our expert construction project management service. 

We will also help you select and manage contractors – including architects, engineers and construction companies  – ensure health and safety requirements are followed and provide you with the management information and reporting you need throughout.

A comprehensive construction project management service

Our service typically covers initial construction consultancy, comprehensive project planning, managing cash flow and payment schedules, and regular reporting.

Find out more about our construction cost consultancy services

Expertise in all types of construction projects

We cover new build, Cat A and Cat B refurbishment and fit outs, together with repair and maintenance projects. We work across all building types from major residential, office and industrial projects to specialist buildings such as hotels, care homes, prisons and other civic buildings.

We ensure your building and/or project meets the best sustainability standards having worked on multiple BREEAM excellent rated projects nationally.

Robust Quality Assurance

We offer a robust Quality Assurance process backed by industry leading processes and accreditations such as ISO 9001 accreditation, compliant with RICS Consultancy Code of Practice, Health & Safety ISO 18001, Environment and Sustainability, ISO 14001, Health & Safety Assessment Scheme (CHAS).

We take the hassle out of dilapidations claims, minimise the costs and make it simpler for you to break or renegotiate a lease.

We are market leaders, looking after 2000 cases a year, settling c40 claims a week and typically reducing tenant’s liabilities by 40%-50% annually.

Dilapidation claims cost businesses millions of pounds a year and consume vast amounts of time. They typically occur when a landlord believes an organisation is in breach of its obligations – set out in the lease – to repair, redecorate or reinstate the property.

Claims can be made during a lease term, but in general, they occur when you’re looking to break or renegotiate a lease – potentially increasing your costs and delaying the process.

Dilapidations advice from the experts

Our expert dilapidations service helps you to understand your potential dilapidations liabilities before you serve a lease break or begin renegotiations. We then work with you to develop a strategy to manage risk and minimise your dilapidations liabilities. We will also negotiate on your behalf.

Examples of our work include managing a conditional lease break on behalf of a major IT company, reducing dilapidations liabilities by £20 million in the process and in two recent cases we’ve recovered over  500,000 in loss of rent charges.

Our team of specialist surveyors will work closely with you to develop and implement a move plan which maximises the benefits to your business whilst minimising the disruption and distractions a move can create.

Every organisation goes through a move or relocation at some point in its life. Whether you are relocating or re-organising your existing business space, there will be an impact on your business and employees.  

Delivering a successful relocation on time and on budget

Relocating or re-stacking your existing space offers many opportunities – reduced costs, improved occupational flexibility, greater performance and increased employee retention and morale.

However, it also brings risk. In particular, there are significant liabilities associated with a fit out and move programme which can result in cost over-runs and business disruption.

We will deliver a relocation or re-stack on time and on budget, working in tandem with you to deliver for your business.

Robust Quality Assurance

We plan and manage relocations and workplace transition schemes for many clients including Camelot, Roche Diagnostics, Essex County Council, IPCC and the BBC. 

Our toolkit of services includes:

• Business space audits
• Feasibility studies / option report
• Design services
• Surveys and workshops
• Move management programmes
• Procurement and management of specialist contractors

We offer a robust Quality Assurance process, backed by industry-leading processes. We have ISO 9001 accreditation and are compliant with the RICS Consultancy Code of Practice, Health & Safety ISO 18001, Environment and Sustainability, ISO 14001 and Health & Safety Assessment Scheme (CHAS).

Real estate due diligence defines the risk in any commercial property acquisition.

Our expert chartered building surveyors specialise in real estate due diligence. They understand the construction of buildings, and the pathology of building defects and deleterious materials. They’ll also review the wider commercial considerations, such as technological, legislative, health and safety, environmental and legal liabilities.

Why do you need commercial real estate due diligence?

Acquiring property exposes you to considerable risks. Without due diligence, those risks are unknown, unquantified and unmanaged. If problems are discovered after the transaction is completed, your commercial property’s investment values can fall.

Commercial property may be poorly designed, poorly built, use inferior materials, be nearing the end of its lifecycle, lack infrastructure connectivity or fast become obsolete due to technical and legislative advances.

Acquiring a commercial property without carrying out proper real estate due diligence usually limits your access to funding.

Poor real estate due diligence, carried out by unqualified surveyors with low professional indemnity insurance, exposes you to a real estate investment that is potentially damaging, both in financial and reputational terms.

For corporate transactions, it may sour the wider commercial benefit elsewhere in the transaction. It will also seriously call into question corporate governance.

What makes good real estate due diligence?

Good real estate due diligence, carried out by specialist chartered building surveyors, will properly identify and quantify the risks.

If the risks are significant, then you can withdraw from the process or renegotiate the sale price. At the very least, you have the option to strategically manage the risks through the life of the holding.
Good real estate due diligence also looks at the property in the context of the transaction – risks will vary depending on whether the commercial property is for investment, occupation, or part of a corporate transaction.

Fitting out or refurbishing business premises is potentially one of the most important tasks an organisation will ever be faced with, not to mention the most expensive.

Get it right and it can enhance your brand, boost productivity and collaboration, as well as improve staff wellbeing, attraction and retention. Get it wrong however, and it could have entirely the opposite effect. 

With so much at stake it is essential that you appoint a Project Manager from the outset to ensure that your fit out or refurbishment project is completed to specification, on time, within budget and with minimum risk.

No matter the size or complexity, our experienced Project Management team will oversee the entire project, from programme management and procurement to contract administration, health and safety and employer's agent services, leaving you free to focus on your core business.

Our Project Management team is closely aligned with our Agency colleagues and operates across the whole of the UK providing our clients with access to market-leading, commercially-focused and practical advice.