How we think about buildings, technical evidence and the property decisions that depend on them.
A technical due diligence report exists to support a commercial decision, not to catalogue a building. This sets out what a useful report establishes, and how its findings should reach the transaction.
Read : What technical due diligence should tell a buyerTwo reports can reach the same conclusion on very different evidence. This sets out how to tell what a conclusion rests on, and why that matters before you act on it.
Read : Reading a building report: what is each conclusion based on?Independent review is sometimes treated as a luxury and sometimes as a sign of mistrust. It is neither. This sets out the circumstances in which reviewing someone else’s technical work changes a decision.
Read : Commissioning a review of technical work: when it changes the decisionTo discuss a building or an instruction, contact us.