Building defect remediation engineers

A remediation that fixes the symptom and not the cause is money spent twice. We start with the investigation: opening up, testing, monitoring where movement is suspected, and a report that says what is wrong, why, how serious it is and what has to happen in what order. For an insurer, warranty provider or management company that report is also the document that settles who pays.

We prepare the scope of works and the remediation design, specify the systems and products, and help the client procure a contractor on a like-for-like basis. We are independent of the contractors, so the scope is what the building needs rather than what is easiest to sell.

We act as engineer and project manager through the remediation: inspecting the work as it proceeds, dealing with what is found once things are opened up, keeping residents and owners informed, and certifying the work at completion. Where buildings stay occupied during the works, phasing and interim safety measures are part of the plan from the start.

Many apartment buildings from the construction boom have fire safety, structural and water ingress defects: missing fire stopping, poor compartmentation, defective balconies, cladding and roofs that leak. We assess the building, prepare the application and the scope for the Government's remediation scheme, and design and oversee the works, with the fire engineering through Fire Safety Consultants.

We assess to I.S. 398 and I.S. 465, prepare the engineer's report for the grant schemes, and design and supervise the remediation of pyrite heave and defective block damage, from single houses to housing estates and public buildings.