Inspection Flashcards
What is the inspection guidance note?
RICS Surveying Safely 2nd Edition (2018)
What are the requirements for a property inspection?
Risk assessment, PPE, charged phone, safe surveying
What is included in desktop review on Google Maps
Assess local vicinity, verify any potential hazards, if it was a valaution instruction understand the drivers of value
What are examples of fire safety infrastructure?
Extinguisher, fire doors, fire curtains
What is included in a Promis report?
Was Marylebone listed?
No the property wasn’t listed
What are the implications of valuing listed buildings
No VAT, no alterations without written consent, no EPC required
What other elements of the building would affect the valuation?
Any inherent defects, deleterious materials, single glazing, perimeter trunking
What did the marketing report include?
Suggested rent, advice on layout, lease term proposition
What do you mean by the local retail pitch?
The layout and quality of the occupiers, the vacancy rate, quality of the micro environment.
What is the hierarchy of evidence?
A - Direct comparables of contemporary, completed transactions of near identical properties
B - General market data that can provide guidance, info from published sources or databases, other indirect and historic evidence,
C - Other sources - transactional evidence from other real estate types and locations, other background data
How would you calculate Zone A?
Halving 20ft back, then annual rent / revised area
What are the FOUR Common Forms of Foundation?
TRPP
Trench and Strip Footings – Generally used for residential buildings
Raft – A slab foundation that spreads the load of the property over the whole site, for lightweight structures and for soft soil conditions.
Piled – Long and slender reinforced concrete cylinders into the ground vertically, to deeper strata. Used for less good load bearing ground / high loads.
Pad – A slab foundation system, under individual columns or units so that the column load is spread evenly.
Can you name some types of brickwork
Solid Wall – (A type of wall) Usually more than one layer, different patterns to tie bricks together such as the Flemish bond.
Cavity Wall – (A type of wall) Two layers of brick tied together with metal pins. Evidence of cavity wall is usually where you have a brick with slats in it or you have evidence of the pins on the exterior of the property.
Stretcher – (A terminology) A brick laid flat with long edge exposed externally.
Header – ( A terminology) A brick laid flat with the short end of the brick exposed
Can you name some terminologies to do with brickwork?
Efflorescence – (A Condition) Salt reacting with water and leaving white marks on the bricks
Spalling – (A Condition) Bricks degrading because of heating a cooling of the bricks.
. Describe an Institutional Shop Building:
Either steel or concrete frame
- Services capped off
- Concrete floor and no suspended ceilings
- Let in shell condition with no shop front, ready for retailer’s fitting out works.
What would be the noticeable difference between a steel framed office and concrete framed office building?
A steel framed building would have less columns and larger/wider floorplates.
Can you describe an Institutional Spec Industrial Asset?
KN/sqm minimum loading capacity
* Steel Portal Frame Structure
* Insulated profiled Steel cladding, (plastic insulated good)
* Brick or blockwork walls to 2m height.
* Minimum 8m clear heights (now more likely 12m)
* 10% lighting panels in the roof
* 5-10% office space.
* Full height loading doors, electric operated
* Access level loading door always included.
* Approximate site cover of 40%.
What are the three common causes of defects?
Water, Movement and Deteriorating Materials.
What occurs after a new building is completed?
You undertake a snagging process, whereby the property is inspected against the construction plans to check that it has been finished correctly and that the construction is of sufficient quality to ensure the building operates as desired and designed. This process is carried out by a contractor under warranty.
What are some common building defects for period residential/shop/office properties?
Dry rot, wet rot, tile slippage on the roof, death watch beetle, damp penetration from the roof, water ingress (doors and windows), settlement.
What are some common defects of modern industrial buildings?
A.Roof leaks around roof lights, damaged cladding;
Cut edge corrosion - Cut edge corrosion occurs to the sheet laps and sheet ends on a profiled metal roof
Blocked valley gutters – Results in water running down surfaces that are not designed for this to happen.
What are some common defects for Modern office buildings?
Cavity wall tie failure, damp from the roof and ground, water damage from burst pipes and air conditioning, damaged cladding.
What is the key piece of legislation in relation to the contamination of land?
The Environmental Protection Act 1990.
What Does the RICS say about Contamination, the Environment and Sustainability?
Guidance Note: Contamination, the Environment and Sustainability (2010): Investigate as follows:
(1) Review site history (desktop study)
(2) Investigation to identify nature and extent of contamination.
(3) Remediation report setting out remedial options with design requirements and monitoring standards.