Western Building Consultants have gained vast experience surveying commercial properties in Bath. We have carried out all kinds of work including valuations for rebuild costs and surveys of historic commercial properties in the centre of Bath, we can also advise you whether you need listed building consent for any planned alterations and give you advice regarding dilapidations claims. If you need land registry or lease plans we can carry out measured surveys at the same time and even provide Energy Performance Certificates where needed.
Types of Commercial Building Surveys
If you are purchasing a commercial property, a building survey will provide a detailed report on the condition of a building, highlighting any defects, outlining the current condition and advising if any maintenance will be required in the future. The report will state what the building is constructed from, whether there are any Listed Building implications or point out if there any future liability issues. We often carry out this service in line with a review of the draft lease to comment on possible liabilities, it can also assist with the possibility of negotiating a better price with the vendor.
If you are leasing a property Commercial leases usually involve dilapidation procedures, whereby a tenant is often liable for repairs to the premises, in this instance a building survey is vital to clarify in detail the condition of the building. Suggestions for remedial works may also be given in the report and we can arrange for a project administrator to oversee the works for you. If you are going to be a tenant, it is vital you understand future repair costs and how the implications of this can affect lease negotiations.
If you have a lease that requires you to maintain the building a planned maintenance report is vital to ensure the building is maintained during your operation and to reduce the likelihood of a large bill from dilapidation at the end of the lease.
Planned Maintenance Reports (PMR) allow you to budget for repairs and schedule them in to minimise disruption to your business. As a business the PMR facilitates better cash flow forecasting, stops defects in the property progressing damaging other areas and costing more money, ensure that the building is fit for purpose for the occupants, minimising the disruption to the business, avoids costly legal disputes and maintains the value of the asset.
The schedule of condition is a vitally important document that often isn’t attached to a lease. The schedule describes and records photographs of the interior and exterior condition of the building at the date the lease is enacted. This serves as a benchmark for the condition and is usually used as evidence for the basis of damage or dilapidation claims. This report will describe in detail, the condition of every part of the property. This is important for tenants who have a liability within the lease to return the property to its original condition at the end of the term of the lease and has the potential to avoid disputes and save money if a schedule of condition is not carried out and the condition was not accurately described.
“‘Dilapidations’ refers to breaches of lease covenants that relate to the condition of a property during the term of the tenancy or when the lease ends.” RICS 2013
Western Building Consultants can expertly advise both tenants and landlords in regards to dilapidations claims in Bath. These typically arise at the end of the lease and it is extremely important that both the tenant and landlord take professional advice to ensure the claim accurately reflects reality. Dilapidations are items of disrepair or defects which tenants are required to rectify or pay to have remedied under covenants contained in a lease. Leases typically allow for dilapidations claims under the lease for repairing covenants, decorating covenants, covenants to comply with statute/regulations or covenants which require reinstatement of a property to a specified standard at the end of the lease.
Please visit our dilapidations service page for more information, if you would like to get a quotation for any or our RICS Commercial Building Surveying services please call 01225 789307 or email [email protected]
Do you run a business in the South West of England? Do you have plans to expand your operation? Do you have a factory or storage building that needs expanding? an industrial site that needs a new building? or perhaps an agricultural holding that you need buildings constructed on to aid your business?
Western Building Consultants have a long history of helping local business owners with ambitions to expand their enterprises, replace old building stock or make their buildings future proof. Based in Bath our Architects, Architectural Technologists & Surveyors are able to provide a multi-disciplinary service to the commercial sector, ensuring the best design practices, building whole life cycle services and economical development of your site.
We have carried out several warehouse extensions near Bath & Bristol, new build designs, commercial barns, commercial barn conversions and commercial agricultural designs in the South West and we are able to help you take you business to next level by adding well designed commercial properties to your portfolio.
Get in contact with our team today and they will help you plan for your future business success.
Inspiring Commercial Architecture in Bath.
Western Building Consultants have worked on many different commercial designs throughout the City of Bath & Beyond. We are experienced working with architectural design for retail fit outs, changes of use in Bath & Listed building consents.
Our current workload includes the design of a boutique hotel in a grade II listed property in Bath, the design of leisure facilities and hotel accommodation for a Golf Club in Wiltshire, design of a night club facility in Bristol and the project administration of an extension to a commercial premisses in the centre of Bath.
Past projects have included: Design of new and existing retail units including Advertisement Consent in Bath & leisure complexes (including swimming pools), restaurant signage applications, interior cafe design, design of new cafes and leisure facilities (such as the Threeways school Cafe in Bath), night club layouts and fire risk assessments, renovation of public houses (including the historic Pack Horse in Bath).
Our RIBA Architect & CIAT Architectural Technologists, are here to guide your business or organisation through the planning and building regulations maze in Bath and beyond whilst our RICS Surveyors & CABE Building Engineers help facilitate the lifelong usage of your building through planned maintenance, dilapidations, defects diagnosis and pre acquisition building surveys in Bath.
Western Building Consultants have vast experience designing offices in Bath and Surrounding areas. Including Master Planning for commercial sites, Project Administration for offices, interior fit outs, fire risk assessments, principal designer roles and refurbishments of offices in Bath.
Whether you have an existing building currently used as offices or require change of use Western Building Consultants can guide you through the process and are experts in designing buildings for office usage. Our Architects & Architectural Technologists have worked on variety of wacky and wonderful commercial schemes including those using shipping containers. Our in house interior architectural consultant can also work with your chosen fit out contractor or independent interior designer to create the impressive and inspirational spaces you require. We also have great links in the industry to help you choose the right contractor for your project.
We have a proven track record in refurbishing offices in Bath and beyond, including the refurbishment of difficult or unusual properties that require a R&D type approach. So if you have a project in the south west involving office please contact us to discuss.
In addition to designing your office we also offer Dilapidations, Building Control advice, Building Surveys and CDM principal designer duties to help you successfully complete your commercial office project in Bath & Beyond.
I have enjoyed working with Western Building Consultants on a complicated project for about 4 years now. During that time they have without fail given me a high level of customer service, being welcoming, responsive and competent.
As a customer I particularly appreciate that WBC are value for money. They also stick to their quotes and don’t add a lot of extras. Help and advice is always forthcoming generally at no extra charge.
Thank you so much for all your advice today. That was so very helpful, not only with the structure of the property but especially with your comments about the whole set up. I can see that we were within a gnat’s whisker of entering a complete can of worms… Thank you so much for saving us from making a stupid mistake.
Thanks to you both your help in this matter – you were both extremely efficient and accommodating (more than I can say about other companies I contacted).
Your professionalism has been invaluable, thank you.
Thank you for your extremely comprehensive report. It will be of immense help when deciding on the works we would like to carry out on the property. We have decided to take your advice and move into the property and live in it for a while to assess our requirements.
Thank you for your prompt service, could not have asked or expected more. I note your comments and in an ideal world everything would have been 1.
Will not hesitate to recommend you, and will make a point of letting the estate agent know this too.
I just wanted to say thank you very much for your thorough and clear report. It is written in an informative and jargon free way which has made a pretty hefty document ultimately digestible and easy to understand.
Hello Kerry, Many thanks for the report and invoice receipt.
Please pass on my thanks to Paul for the survey. In my working life, I read many stock survey reports – I work with social housing providers to set up their asset management strategies – and this was one of the clearest and most comprehensive I’ve seen.
Dear Paul, Thank you so much for your fast response and the detail in your report is very very good and greatly appreciated. Thank you for your efforts.
Many thanks for your swift and thorough return of this report, we so appreciate you getting this back to us on such a tight turn around this week, and on the first read it seems extremely clear and comprehensive.
Hi Kerry / Paul, Thanks for sending the survey across.
I’d also like to thank you for your excellent service and professionalism. I considered many surveyors before choosing to proceed with you and it’s clear that I made the right choice. I won’t hesitate to recommend you to family, friends and colleagues in the future.
“We have commissioned three building surveys from WBC until we found the house that was right for us and all thanks to you”
I never expected so much detail, the report was really great and there were things I never even considered, even being in the construction trade
The report was brilliant and went into so much detail, having had reports from other surveyors in the past this report was far superior
“Highly recommended. Good customer service over the phone and by email. Very quick: from the initial phone call booking a site visit to me receiving the calculations took only 8 days.”
“We used James Dean …Western Building Consultants as an architect. Very good”
“Good surveyors & structural engineers that we used were www.westernbuildingconsultants.com
We were really happy with them, they came highly recommended by several people”
“Excellent service and help from the initial design/planning stage through to the end of all works”
“I can recommend Western Building Consultants. They are great on structural calculations, advice and technical drawings to whatever extent you want. We used them for advice and calcs for taking out our main load bearing wall downstairs. They were recommended several times over when we started looking.”
“Superb, professional, efficient, friendly, positive”
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