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Recent instructions

As a multi-disciplinary practice we obtain a huge variety of property, construction and insurance instructions throughout the UK. A selection of recent projects that we have received includes:

  • Providing multi-disciplinary advice on town regeneration projects.
  • Employer’s agent and project management services on £600,000 refurbishment of a Hertfordshire building. 
  • Specialist advice on various unusual buildings and structures including a river cabin. 
  • Survey of a historically important Welsh pub. 
  • Planning, architectural, structural and contract administration services for a substantial listed rural building. 
  • 1000s of m2 of industrial units surveyed. 
  • £5m refurbishment of a fire damaged 1920s apartment block. 
  • Retail premises fire repairs Cornwall. 
  • Expert witness report on a flat roof failure, Hampshire - £80,000.
  • Town centre impact damage, coordination and repairs, Dorset.
  • Grade II listed fire repairs, South Wales. 
  • Sewage contamination clearance, Newport.
  • Expert witness services at trial regarding basement flooding, London.
  • Cost study for conversion of shooting lodge to apartments, Northamptonshire.
  • Value at risk and pricing scheme for cash settlement, Grantham - £1.2m.
  • Expert witness services for multi-million liability claim, Glasgow.
  • Cost study contractors’ proposals, Lincolnshire - £1m.
  • Full cost review for Insurers, Central London - £1m.
  • Expert witness services project costs, Chester - £500,000. 
  • Water damage repairs Grade I listed mansion, Buckinghamshire.
  • Employers’ agent role for design and built of industrial shed, Worcestershire - £500,000. 
  • New build house after fire - £450,000.
  • Coastal retaining wall failure, Cornwall.
  • Expert witness services following structural alterations to tenement block, Edinburgh.
  • Employers’ agent on design and build factory, London - £1.7m.
  • Structural repair non-traditional steel framed housing, Dunfermline.
  • Escape of water damage repairs, Essex - £300,000.
  • Grade II* listed fire repairs, Devon - £3m.
  • Grade II listed farmhouse refurbishment and extension - £700,000.
  • Employers agent of design and build industrial shed scheme, Northamptonshire - £500,000.
  • Fire damage repairs, Shetland - £300,000. 
  • Fire damage repairs bespoke residential property, Leicestershire - £1m. 
  • Flood damage repairs, Kilmarnock - £500,000.
  • Reconstructed detached house after fire, Aberdeen - £500,000.
  • Fire damage repairs commercial/ residential mixed used - £300,000.
  • Fire damage repairs Victorian water tower, Surrey - £450,000.
  • Specification and cost review Grade II listed Mill fire, Hampshire - £2.3m.
  • Asbestos clearance industrial shed, Gloucestershire - £150,000.
  • Grade II listed water mill convert to apartments.
  • Grade II* listed manor house extension.
  • Master planning eight-hectare industrial site.
  • Multiple barn conversions Grade II listed site.
  • Planning and Building Regulations approval for dwellings.
  • Contract administration of £1.4m rectification of water damaged Central London nightclub.

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