METCALFE BRIGGS SURVEYORS IS A FIRM OF CHARTERED SURVEYORS WHICH OFFERS A WIDE PORTFOLIO OF SURVEYING SERVICES IN KENT, LONDON AND ESSEX.
RICS Chartered Building Surveyors
Surveying services include party wall surveys, leasehold dilapidations, condition surveys, building dispute resolution and more, in the Kent, London and Essex areas.
Our philosophy is to provide surveying services that are appropriate, having understood our client’s needs.
We have an open and transparent culture throughout all levels of the company which creates effective and adaptable buildings advice. Our aim is to keep these values at the heart of our work so that we are approachable, whilst acting professionally. We provide chartered surveying services for clients throughout the South East UK, including Kent, London, Essex and surrounding areas.
Metcalfe Briggs Surveyors has a wide portfolio of
surveying services, including but not limited to:
When there is a lease agreement between a landlord and tenant for the commercial occupation of accommodation, for example offices, a warehouse, retail or commercial operations, the lease will contain covenants, amongst others, in respect of how a tenant must maintain a property during their occupation and give it back (yield up) at lease end (termination).
Time to discuss repairing, altering or excavating with a party wall surveyor? Our party wall surveyors know the strict legal procedures you must follow. You should serve a Party Wall notice on your neighbour should certain circumstances apply.
Metcalfe Briggs Surveyors has a wealth of experience in undertaking stock condition and life cycle surveys of existing street properties, low rise and high rise estates for rented and leasehold Housing Association and Registered Social Landlords.
Even with an experienced contractor and client, building disputes can sometimes arise. With an inexperienced and “first time” client, building disputes are more likely particularly when design and contract documentation are sparse.
Asset Management Plans identify each building element, its condition and the maintenance action required. It assigns every item a priority rating. Each element has an estimated cost using industry accepted data sources, and a defined timing for when the planned maintenance should occur.
Metcalfe Briggs Surveyors operates in the following sectors,
as well as others featured here:
Metcalfe Briggs Surveyors has long worked closely with Solicitors as our experience has shown that many property enquiries have both legal and building aspects.
Metcalfe Briggs Surveyors has extensive experience spanning many years in providing Surveyor support services to major RSL’s / Housing Associations / Social Housing providers.
Whether purchasing or leasing a commercial property for business or retail purposes clients are well advised to have a clear understanding of the facilities they intend to acquire. As commercial property surveyors there are building survey matters that, when advised on, will save you time and money.
Educational establishments face many challenges with their large and diverse buildings. Institutions provide a rich and diverse choice of courses to a very cosmopolitan range of students. It goes without saying that to complement a high standard of teaching an equivalent level of facilities and student accommodation is required.
As Chartered Building Surveyors with years of experience providing support for Residential & Property Managers, residential managing agents regularly require the services of Metcalfe Briggs Surveyors and we have many clients in this sector. Through association with these clients we have built an understanding of the needs of residential managing agents.
At Metcalfe Briggs Surveyors we work with architects in order to support them and their clients. We recognise that we are not creative designers as this is an architect’s domain. With this is mind, at Metcalfe Briggs Surveyors we offer a number of surveying support services tailored to an Architect’s needs.
Metcalfe Briggs Surveyors has a portfolio of
surveying work in and around London:
Metcalfe Briggs Surveyors assisted a London Council by carrying out surveys of a number of council owned and maintained park buildings in several locations throughout the Borough. The buildings included chapels, pavilions, storage units and toilet blocks constructed throughout the Victorian era, 1950s and modern day, in varying styles and state of repair.
As part of a London Council’s programme of bringing their park buildings into good repair and maintaining their commercial viability, two sports and recreational pavilions built in the late 1950s were identified as requiring upgrading and modernisation.
A London Council had identified one of its disused and run down park pavilions as an ideal property for refurbishment and conversion for use by a boxing club. The existing building consisted of a single storey structure with a flat roof above and roof level water tank.
A fire originating in the bedroom of this first floor flat in the heart of the docklands spread throughout the property causing damage to the roof structure, internal partitions and joinery with smoke damage contaminating the remaining area. Metcalfe Briggs Surveyors was instructed following its long-term housing association client’s agreement with the loss adjustor appointed on behalf of the insurers.
Metcalfe Briggs was subsequently delighted to continue working for a London Borough Housing Association by carrying out a Stock Condition Survey of the Housing Association’s entire stock.
Before commencement of construction of a 50 storey residential complex, the contractor required a Schedule of Condition of the surrounding area to provide protection against spurious claims. We surveyed the adjacent building elevations and joinery, walls, fences, pavements, road surfaces, ironworks and street furniture to produce a record Schedule of Condition document for safekeeping.
Metcalfe Briggs Surveyors has a portfolio of
surveying work in and around Kent:
Our client wanted an Schedule of Condition report before sub-leasing an industrial unit in Kent. The report covered the entire area within the boundary fences.
This modern but dated three storey office block in Ashford had been vacated by a public sector client who had made extensive internal alterations and subjected the property to very considerable wear and tear. A detailed survey resulted in a comprehensive Schedule of Dilapidations running to hundreds of items.
Metcalfe Briggs Surveyors was asked to represent the landlord of a 1970s industrial estate of 16 units in Gillingham, Kent.
Whilst drilling horizontally for a new pipeline within 200 metres of private residences in Kent, unforeseen geological conditions resulted in drilling slurry traversing horizontally and flooding out through a well adjacent to the front door of one of the houses.
An intense fire destroyed much of the interior of an industrial unit which was part of a larger building owned by clients of Metcalfe Briggs Surveyors. Smoke spread to the whole building, causing extensive contamination and the need for a major clear up operation.
Metcalfe Briggs Surveyors has a portfolio of
surveying work in and around Essex:
Our client had found that their existing 5 bay steel framed metal and corrugated asbestos cement sheet clad building was not fit for purpose for the servicing and carrying out of MOTs for commercial vehicles. Modern vehicles tended to be longer and therefore the building was not deep enough to cater for them.
Our client was about to take a short-term lease for a large warehouse unit for a furniture retail business. His solicitor advised that it would be prudent to have completed a Schedule of Condition to append to the lease to limit his liability. Although time was short, Metcalfe Briggs completed the survey and delivered the Schedule of Condition without delay.
Metcalfe Briggs Surveyors was appointed as Single Joint Expert in a dispute being heard in the County Court, involving an office refurbishment. A Single Joint Expert acts on behalf of both parties in dispute, acting impartially to consider all material facts, in his area of expertise. He delivers to the Court an independent report with a duty that the facts stated in the report are true and that the opinions expressed are correct.
A vacant parcel of land in Essex was ripe for development to provide a residential refuge for women and children with support needs requiring temporary accommodation. It consists of 5 self contained 1 and 2 bedroom flats with a communal lounge and office for 24hr support for East Thames Group.
Existing domestic garages to the rear of an established Housing Estate made way for this single storey building providing 6 self contained flats for people with learning difficulties and included a staff office, sleepover room with en-suite shower facilities and communal room. It was developed for East Thames and included extensive communal gardens provided for the benefit of the residents.
Metcalfe Briggs Surveyors provide the following contract administration professional services: feasibility, project brief and works specification; competitive tendering to contractors, contractor appointment using a standard form of contract and contract administration pre and during the contract through to completion that will enable the delivery of your project.