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Building & Property
Understanding the buildings you buy, own and develop.
We help owners, buyers and developers understand what their buildings require of them, plan for it, and act at the right time.
The question
What do we need to know about this building, and what does it mean for us?
A building’s age, condition and obligations affect value, operating cost, programme and liability. The information is often scattered, incomplete or written for specialists rather than for the people who have to decide.
What we do
We work on the owner’s side. We bring together the records, reports and obligations that relate to a building or portfolio, identify what they establish and what is missing, and turn them into plans and decisions: what to commission, what to budget and what to do first. Where a question needs inspection, testing or engineering judgement, we scope it, help you appoint an appropriately registered firm, and make sure its findings reach your decision.
Services
- Acquisition support
- Owner-side support before acquisition, investment or funding: scoping the technical due diligence the decision needs, procuring it, and translating the findings into price, terms and planning.
- Portfolio screening
- A structured picture of a portfolio by age, completion date, records held and statutory milestones, so that obligations and capital needs are seen early.
- Capital and lifecycle planning
- Capital plans built from the condition information and professional reports you hold or commission, sequenced by urgency and funding.
- Procurement of specialist firms
- Briefs, tenders and appointments for engineering, testing and specialist firms, so that the scope matches the question and the firm is appropriately registered for the work.
- Building records
- An owner-side record of documents, decisions and evidence for each building, kept in a form that buyers, funders and managers can use.
- Remediation planning
- Owner-side planning for remedial works: programme, phasing, occupancy, procurement and cost, built around the solution specified by the appointed firm.
Typical instructions
- Owner-side support on pre-acquisition technical due diligence
- Portfolio screening by age and statutory milestones
- Capital plan for a held asset or portfolio
- Brief and tender for an engineering or testing firm
- Programme and occupancy planning for remedial works
- Building record set-up ahead of sale or refinancing
What you receive
Decision papers, plans and registers that set out what is known, where it comes from, what is missing and what you need to decide, with every technical statement attributed to its source.
Why it matters
Technical issues found early can be priced, negotiated, planned or avoided. Found late, they become cost, delay and dispute.
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Discuss a building
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