Inspection Flashcards
What are the different purposes for an inspection?
- Valuation
- PM
- L & T / Marketing
What matters can impact a markets perception of value?
- Surrounding area, communications and facilities
- Property characteristics - age, construction etc
- Site characteristics - risk of flooding, asbestos etc
- Potential for redevelopment
- Other - planning constraints
What enviro risks may impact a property?
- EPC - energy efficiency (sustainability)
- Flood risk
- Hazardous materials - asbestos
- Contamination
- Invasive non-native species
What is the 4 step process to an inspection?
- Pre inspection planning - Risk assessment, PP, Workman’s H&S procedure
- Inspect the local area
- External inspection
- Internal inspection
What are the key RICS docs for inspection?
RICS Guidance Note - Surveying Safely for Property Professionals (2018)
Asbestos: Legal Requirements and Best Practice for Property Professionals (2021)
Enviro Risks and Global Real Estate (2018)
What recommendations does Surveying safely have on inspections?
- Carry out a RA before attending - assess hazards and risks
- Consider the requirement for PPE
- Take appropriate equipment - phone measuring files pen etc
- Diarise inspection - inform tenants and colleagues
- Assess property conditions - unsafe, occupation, dangerous substances, access etc
- Secure site - sign in/out, inform colleague when you have left
What equipment should you take on inspection?
- Phone /camera
- PPE
- Measuring device
- Property files inc title plans
- Pen/paper
How would you prepare for an inspection?
- Read the lease and gather all info on the property - property files
- Look at title plans etc
- Plan journey
- H&S Risk Assessment - consider lone working, PPE etc
What needs to be considered prior to attending site?
- Travel
- Purpose of the visit
- Lone working
- Property condition
- Occupation
- Dangerous substances
- PPE
- Access arrangements
What would you consider in relation to the local area?
- Location - facilities, transport, parking, business vibrancy etc
- Enviro factors - contamination, flood risk, hazards etc
- Investigate local market - vacancies, tenant mix, occupancy rate etc
- Check map - site plans, OS map etc
What would you look for in an external inspection?
- Method of construction
- Age of the building
- Repair and condition of the exterior
- Car parking and access
- Defects - e.g. structural movement
- Check site boundary with OS map
How would you inspect internally?
- Repairs
- Any defects
- Statutory compliance
- Tenant activity - use, alterations etc
- Services - age and quality
- Compliance with lease obligations
What should you consider when you arrive on site and during an inspection?
- Structural stability
- Timbers, glass, sharp objects
- Unsafe environments
- Slips and trips
- Working from height
- Vermin and people
- Adverse weather
What are key signs of structural stability/instability?
- Cracking and signs of movement
- Leaning walls
- Rotten/corroded beams
What timbers, glasses and sharp objects should be looked for?
- Loose fixtures and fittings,
- Glass, nails etc
- Sharp edges
- Broken floors/stairs
What are examples of unsafe atmospheres?
- Confined spaces - lack of oxygen
- Mould/fungal growth
- Asbestos
How should you assess working from height?
- Whether required
- Hazards and risks - RA
- Equipment being used in working order
- Will you be working near edges
What hidden traps might you come across?
- Hazards hidden by water
- Manholes
- Lift shafts
What risks can be associated with other people on inspection?
- Dangerous animals (dogs)
- Squatters
- Angry tenants
What contamination risks are to be considered?
- Asbestos
- Chemicals in storage
- Contaminated water
What do i look for in an insopection?
Using Workmans inspection form i look for
- Site/area characteristsics
- External characteristics and condition
- Plant rooms
- Lifts/escalators
- Stairwells
- M&E condition
- Statutory h&S compliance
- Presence of contamination etc
- Any building defects
- Fire and emergency
What precautions do you make when inspecting a vacant unit?
- Diarise
- Inform colleagues
- Risk assessment
- Take a fully charged mobile
- PPE
- Refence code of Surveying safely
What would you do when you arrive on a construction site?
- Sign in
- Undertake site H&S check
- Obtain any ppe
What recommendation have you adopted in your work from Surveying Safely?
- Carrying out RA before attending site
- Checking PPE requirement
- Taking a fully charged mobile
- Diarise inspections
- Sign in and out of site