Building Surveying

At Hall and Partners, our highly skilled, innovative team will work with our clients to formulate development briefs, in order to apply our specialist expertise of the construction industry.

With a comprehensive, extensive range of schemes and projects, from a single building to a complete property portfolio, Hall and Partners know how to manage, plan and programme for any eventuality. Our robust cost control and management systems ensure that our clients can be rest assured that we will protect their property interests.

Services include:-

Building Surveying/Defect Inspections

Building /Defect surveys are commissioned to report on the cause and remedy for specific defects, affecting a particular structure. A building survey can be further refined into a detailed schedule of condition. This details the condition of a building, together with photographic evidence and enables the end user to have a ready robust defence against claims arising from interim or terminal schedules of dilapidations.

Measured Surveys

Providing detailed or footprint layouts, tailored to suit the needs of the client.

Refurbishment Projects

A survey may be commissioned if a building is to be substantially modernised or refurbished. Our approach offers substantial support to the survey, with our detailed and accurate building cost advice and design and management of the construction process to completion.

Asset Management Consultancy

In 2000, the government issued the document “Quality and Choice”: a decent home for all; the way forward for Housing”. This contained a promise that by 2010 all public sector homes would meet a prescribed standard. We undertake large scale asset management surveys on behalf of local authorities/ALMO´s and housing associations to record and present the information on stock condition in a manner which is capable of interrogation to provide rapid access to elemental cost and life cycle expectancies of the principals components of construction.

Party Wall Advice

Hall and Partners’ advice ensures our client comply with the provisions of the Party Wall Act etc 1996. Failure to adhere to the requirements of this Act during the early stages of a project may lead to expensive delays.

Asbestos Surveys

Hall and Partners’ team are British Institute of Occupational Hygienists Proficiency Certificate P405 accredited. We manage removal contracts and ensure clients comply with the Control of Asbestos at Work Regulations 2002, particularly the “Duty to Manage”.