Inspection Flashcards
According to VPGA 8, what matters can impact the markets perception on value?
- Surrounding area
- Characteristics of the property (use, dimensions, age, construction)
- Contamination
- Development or redevelopment
What legislation covers inspections?
RICS Surveying Safely 2018
According to the RICS professional standards and guidance: environmental risks and global real estate, 1st Edition (2018), what factors can negatively impact a valuation?
- Contamination
- Flooding
- Asbestos
- Invasive non-native species
- High voltage overhead tension lines
- Telecommunication
- base stations
- Wind farms
- mines
- Waste Management processes
- EPC ratings
Name some common Asbestos Containing Materials?
- insulation
- coatings
- cement
- Thermoplastic floor coverings
What is asbestos
- fibrous material
- used due to its strength, flexibility, sound proofing, heat resistance and resistance to chemical attack.
- estimated to be present in 1.5m buildings
- common until mid 1980s
- outlawed 1999
What RICS publication relates to asbestos?
Asbestos Legal Requirements and Best Practice for Property Professionals and Clients, 4th Edition 2021
Name some other harmful materials
- High alumina concrete
- calcium chloride cement
- mundic
What is high alumina concrete, and what is its risk?
- rapid strength development
- commonly used in pre-cast beams in 1950-1970s
- Vulnerable to chemical attack and reduced strength
- buildings collapsed
What is calcium cloride cement, and what is its risk?
- accelerated time for cement to set. used until mid 1970s
- corrosion to embedded metel
- outlawed 1977
What is mundic, and what is its risk?
- mine waste in Devon and Cornwall
- aggregate in concreate blocks in 1900-1950
- chemical changes caused concreate to determinate
What needs to be completed before visiting a site?
- pre-assessment of hazards, risks (risk assesment)
- requirement of PPE
What items would you take on an inspection
- phone with camera
- file with plans + other supporting docs
- PPE
- Notepad + pen
- distometer
What should be considered before visiting a site?
- Travel
- Lone Working
- condition of property
- occupation
- activity (use)
- site rules and welfare
- roofs (how to inspect if required)
- high structures (safety of scaffolding)
- dangerous substances (asbestos)
- diseases (clinical waste)
- special access (abseiling)
- special risks (plant rooms)
- access equipment (ladder)
- PPE
- weather
- personal matters
what matters should be considered during the inspection?
- Structural stability
- slip/trip hazards
- contamination
- vermin and birds
Talk me though a typical management inspection
- ensure the named tenant is there and trading.
- looking for breaches of tenant covenants
- Disrepair
- Unauthorised alterations
- Tenant details (maintain relationship, understand performance)
What should be considered during a valuation inspection?
Location
tenure
form of construction
defects
condition
tenant covenants
Why do you need to inspect for Valuation purposes?
It is a requirement in the red book.
What are key signs of structural instability that should be looked for on inspection?
Leaning/budged walls
rotten beams and columns
corroded metal fire escapes/balconies
How should the risk of falls from height be assessed when working on site?
- drone
- ladders
- MEWPs (cherry picker)
- scaffolds
- access towers
What are the characteristics of a Grade A office Space?
- Desirable location
- Highly maintained
- lifts
- LED/PIR lighting
- BREAM
- High EPC
- high spec shared facilities - Gym, showers, bike racks etc.
- raised floor with 150mm void
- suspended ceilings with 350mm void
what are the characteristics of a Grade B office Space?
- former class A
- aged by 10-20 years
What are the 4 types of cracking typically seen in brickwork construction and what are they caused by?
- Horizontal line (Cavity wall tie failure)
- triangular (Lintel failure)
- stepped (Structural failure)
- cracking running to floor level (ground movement)
What are the 4 types of damp and how can you identify them?
- Penetrating
- Rising (failed/no damp proof course)
- Condensation (black mould growth)
- Plumbing failure
How do you identify rising damp?
does not go above 1.5m
