We offer services for many organisation types across a diversity of sectors.
A passion for surveying.
Our comprehensive suite of professional services caters to a diverse clientele, ranging from landlords to commercial developers.
Estate Appraisal Services
This area of our work deals with the proactive rather than reactive maintenance of buildings. Planned preventative maintenance provides for the renewal of elements before they actually fail, preventing costs through consequential damage and allowing for more accurate budgets. Planned maintenance may be undertaken to protect investment value or to prevent disruption in use of a building.
We are able to produce planned maintenance schedules, fully costed, and provide other associated services required in connection with those works, such as defect analysis or contract administration, to cover all maintenance aspects of premises. We have developed our own Microsoft ‘Access’ database to capture the collated information that is able to provide reports on condition ratings plus numerous other statistics required by the Further and Higher Education sector, namely FEMS and HEMS.
Measured Building & Topographical Surveys
This area of surveying work may be undertaken in conjunction with other areas of work such as, as built drawings, space planning, updating estate information for building areas etc, or as a stand alone service simply to provide accurate plans of an existing building or an area of land.
Building surveys can be undertaken, to produce scaled floor plans, elevations, sections and street-scenes. Precise measurements are taken using EDM (Electronic Distance Measurement) instruments. The data will be transferred to our AutoCAD software, where we can provide hard copies, PDF or industry standard AutoCAD files.
Topographical surveys are carried out using Leica Total Stations & Leica GPS systems. The information is recorded using on-board data capture which ensures the accuracy of the data. The data is then transferred to our LSS & CAD software. Once processed, we can provide the final data as hard copies, PDF, or AutoCAD DXF formats.
Health & Safety Audits
The numerous pieces of legislation that apply to the use of buildings can make the management of health and safety a daunting task. A Health and Safety Audit is aimed specifically at assisting building occupiers in meeting their obligations under legislation that affects buildings, and will report on compliance with issues such as the fire precautions, lighting, maintenance access and welfare facilities.
An initial audit followed by periodic updates to cover either changes in legislation or alterations to the building will ensure ongoing compliance. We undertake a large number of building surveys for a variety of clients and purposes. All surveys undertaken will be closely tailored to the needs of the client, whether pre-acquisition for investment purposes or a survey for prospective occupiers.
We are able to provide a highly responsive service and will cover any location in the UK. We also have adequate resources to undertake portfolio surveys again tailored for the clients’ requirements and produced in a short space of time.
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“Setting up an athletics club for the borough came with a massive amount of administration, H&D understood our requirements and worked with us to create a resource that was easy to use, functional and could be used by volunteers, parents and athletes. Rob was approachable and offered solutions to our problems. Development is ongoing and we continue to apply for funding to support new ideas, its constantly evolving. So very pleased with the service we’ve had and still receive.”
Ruth Powell
Chair, Rhymney Valley Athletics Club
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