Planned Maintenance Case Studies
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Metcalfe Briggs Surveyors completed a Condition Survey and compiled a detailed ten year Asset Management Plan for this major further education college with an estate ranging from the Grade II listed main building to 1950’s and 70’s multi storey buildings and a new wing constructed in 2002.
A very large apartment block in Docklands has a considerable amount of rainscreen cladding to the elevations. This type of cladding has powder coated surfaces and many seams, mastic joint seals, gaskets, pop rivets and weep holes all of which have periodic maintenance and renewal needs. Metcalfe Briggs used a large cherry picker to reach the ‘nooks and crannies’ of each elevation so that all building elements could be identified, the quantity accurately assessed and the maintenance regime defined.
A high rise apartment complex in Docklands presented particular difficulties to survey and complete a Asset Management Plan. Tiered roof balconies and rising to 16 storeys meant external access using scaffold or a cherry picker was physically and economically impossible. Instead rope access was chosen to get close to the elevations to understand the building’s construction and condition.
This important Further Education College was considering selling its site within three years but needed to maintain its estate in the meantime without unnecessary expenditure.
The roofs of this Grade II* listed mansion were of very high specification but the leadwork had reached the end of its useful life and had been patched numerous times. The future of the building was uncertain so Metcalfe Briggs Surveyors produced a minimum expenditure maintenance.
This prestigious property in Docklands is a modern apartment complex with in excess of 400 flats. It has brickwork elevations, flat roofs and powder coated aluminium windows, doors and trims. The internal common parts are extensive but are similarly unfussy. As would be expected in such a building there is a substantial amount of M&E. It could be assumed that there is little to be done to maintain such a building.