Professional Services
Maintenance
Buildings are valuable asset which needs to be maintained to ensure that their value is not eroded. Often, this is ignored with unfortunate consequences, including a subsequent greater expenditure on the maintenance of property. The maintenance characteristics of all building are a result of the original design. However, inefficient designs, bad specifications and poor workmanship can result in defects which are subsequently often difficult and usually expensive to diagnose and remedy. In addition, the severity of the weather can accelerate deterioration to defects that may already exist. Ross & Liddell’s Building Surveyors can advise on the maintenance requirements for all forms of building. Thereafter, we can prepare a maintenance programme tapered to suit the buildings’ needs and the clients’ financial constraints, and thereafter implement a maintenance regime that will ensure that the property’s value will not be eroded due to poor maintenance.
Maintenance & Other Services offered;
Works and Programmed Maintenance
Miscellaneous Services Feasibility Studies – Drawings
Feasibility Studies – Feasibility Cost Studies & Budgets
Feasibility Studies – Cost-in-Use Studies
Planning – Change of Use
Planning – Outline Planning Permissions
Planning – Planning Appeals
Advice on leasehold properties
Schedules of Dilapidations
Schedule of Condition
Works and Programmed Maintenance
To ascertain the maintenance characteristics of a building a detailed survey of all elements of the exposed fabric, should be carried out.
Ross & Liddell’s Building Surveyors can carry out this service. Thereafter, we can prepare a maintenance programme tapered to suit the buildings’ needs and the clients’ financial constraints, and thereafter implement a maintenance regime that will ensure that the property’s value will not be eroded due to poor maintenance.
The maintenance requirements of a building can be due to the original design details being inefficient, or due to bad specifications or poor workmanship, or simply materials coming to the end of their life. Ross & Liddell’s Building Surveyors can advise.
The production of planned future repair and maintenance budgets and capital expenditure forecasts are invaluable aids to proper building management. They will inevitably result in the need to prepare detailed specifications and to supervise the maintenance and repair works which have been identified. This service can be provided by Ross & Liddell’s Building Surveyors.
Where repair or maintenance proves necessary, Ross & Liddell’s Building Surveyors will produce budget estimates, draw up detailed specifications, advise on the selection of suitable contractors, prepare the contract document, supervise the works in progress and see the project through to satisfactory completion.
Miscellaneous Services
We can provide a range of feasibility studies;
Feasibility Studies – Drawings
Feasibility Studies – Feasibility Cost Studies & Budgets
Feasibility Studies – Cost-in-Use Studies
Planning – Change of Use
Planning – Outline Planning Permissions
Planning – Planning Appeals
Any proposal to develop land or alter properties will involve the consideration of the rights and agreement of all interested parties, and the need to obtain planning and other statutory consents.
Planning legislation is complex, and where an application for planning permission has proved unsuccessful, Ross & Liddell’s Building Surveyors can advise on the prospects and the likely cost implications of going to appeal Ross & Liddell’s Building Surveyors can also give advice in the preparation of the necessary documentation supporting the owners application.
· Space Planning & Function Suitability
· Licences – Houses in Multiple Occupation
Advice on leasehold properties
Dilapidations and Schedules of Condition
Ross & Liddell’s Building Surveyors can give advice on building and property law, particularly where it relates to leasehold interests.
Schedules of Dilapidations – Ross & Liddell’s Building Surveyors will ensure that repairing and similar covenants of the Lease are fully understood and observed Schedules of Dilapidations can be prepared for a landlord, or where served, defended on behalf of a tenant.
Schedules of Condition – That accurately record the condition of a property prior to entering into a lease agreement are a valuable document to avoid future disputes. Ross & Liddell’s Building Surveyors can assist
Ross & Liddell’s Building Surveyors may be instructed to act on behalf of either the Landlord or tenant, to prepare or agree a Schedule of Condition, or to prepare or agree a Schedule of Dilapidation’s during, or at the termination of a Lease.
In any event Ross & Liddell’s Building Surveyors will ensure that fair and reasonable agreement is reached on either the scope of works required, or an appropriate financial settlement.