Projects

Proven track record on a wide variety of property matters.

 

Below are a selection of our case studies that demonstrate the breadth and depth of our experience.

Our feature project

Client type: Tenant
Location: Reading
Size: 22,000 Sq Ft
Role: Employers Agent/Project Managers

hdp Building Surveyors were on hand to help deliver and manage Rapid7’s latest office fit-out located within the heart of Reading. The full build which was completed over a duration of 16 weeks can accommodate 130 members of staff.

Contractor: SPACE
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  • Dilapidations and monitoring

    Dilapidations and monitoring

    Client type: Investor
    Location: Bristol
    Value: Undisclosed

    Particulars:
    - Terminal Schedule of Dilapidations
    - Monitoring of departing Tenant’s works
    - Monitoring of incoming Tenant’s works

  • Office refurbishment

    Office refurbishment

    Client type: Investors
    Location: Bristol
    Role: Employer’s Agent
    Value: £4.4m

    Particulars:
    - Dilapidations negotiations
    - Quality design
    - Wired score platinum

  • Sports pitches

    Sports pitches

    Client type: Education providers
    Location: Bristol
    Role: Employer’s Agent
    Value: Undisclosed

    Particulars:
    - Ground stabilisation
    - attenuation tanks
    - Right of way across site

  • Warehouse new build

    Warehouse new build

    Client type: Occupiers
    Location: Weston-super-Mare
    Role: Employer’s Agent
    Value: Undisclosed

    Particulars:
    - BREEAM excellent
    - Extensive pilling
    - Adjacent occupiers

  • Use of building as a film studio

    Use of building as a film studio

    Client type: Tenant
    Location: Newport
    Role: Tenant Surveyor & Contract Administrator
    Value: Undisclosed

    Particulars:
    - Extensive schedule of condition
    - Monitoring of landlords work
    - Over seeing tenants fitting out

  • New office headquarters

    New office headquarters

    Client type: Funder
    Location:
    Bridgewater
    Role:
    Bank Surveyor for funding institution

    Particulars:
    - Complex funding arrangement
    - Partial completion
    - Tight timescales

  • New health centre

    New health centre

    Client type: Funder
    Location: Taunton
    Role: Bank Fund Surveyor

    Particulars:
    - Riverside location
    - Tenant liaison issues
    - Tight timescales

  • Funding for essential works

    Funding for essential works

    Client type: Funder
    Location: Cardiff
    Role: Cost Consultant for funding charity

    Particulars:
    - Historic listed buildings
    - Health care occupiers
    - Detailed cost analysis

  • New 57  bedroom hotel

    New 57 bedroom hotel

    Client type: Developer
    Location: Wincanton
    Role: Employer’s Agent
    Value: £2,000,000

    Particulars:
    - Extensive pre-let/Agreement for Lease negotiations
    - Completion achieved one month early
    - Monitored by Tenant's Surveyor

  • New residential accommodation

    New residential accommodation

    Client type: Developer
    Location: Midsomer Norton
    Role: Employer’s Agent & Cost Consultant
    Value: Undisclosed

    Particulars:
    - Regional developer client
    - 4 residential units on the site of a former public house
    - Enclosed and restricted site

  • Student Accommodation

    Student Accommodation

    Client type: Investor
    Location: Bristol
    Role: Party Wall Surveyor
    Value: Undisclosed

    Particulars:
    - Site enclosed on three sides
    - Structurally unstable party fence and boundary walls
    - Access agreements over neighbouring land

  • Office conversion to flats

    Office conversion to flats

    Client type: Investor
    Location: Lincoln
    Role: Designer
    Value: Pre-tender

    Particulars:
    - Role included dilapidations negotiations
    - Feasibility studies
    - Acoustic and thermal enhancements

  • Investment survey

    Investment survey

    Client type: Investor
    Location: Bristol City Centre
    Role: Building Survey
    Value: Undisclosed

    Particulars:
    - Bristol city centre property
    - 110,000 sq ft
    - Investment survey and reinstatement cost assessment

  • Repair / Redecoration & alteration works

    Repair / Redecoration & alteration works

    Client type: Landlord
    Location: Weymouth
    Role: Contract Administrator/Project Manager
    Value: £140,000

    Particulars:
    - High street location with restricted access
    - Structural remediation to front elevation
    - Undertaken during 2012 Olympics

  • Demolition and re-build of a listed building

    Demolition & re-build of a listed building

    Client type: Landlord
    Location: Chipping Norton
    Role: Contract Administrator/Project Manager
    Value: £30,000

    Particulars:
    - Listed building
    - Trading opticians below area
    - Extremely wet weather

  • Monitoring of tenants works

    Monitoring of tenants works

    Client type: Landlord
    Location: Swansea
    Role: Landlord Surveyor
    Value: £100,000

    Particulars:
    - Listed building with a ceramic faced facade
    - High street location
    - Access and loading on adjacent roof

  • Renewal of concrete delivery yard

    Renewal of concrete delivery yard

    Client type: Managing Agent
    Location: Bridgwater
    Role: Contract Administrator/Project Manager
    Value: £100,000

    Particulars:
    - Yard in use 24/7
    - Rapid cure concrete utilised
    - Cost apportionment

  • Monitoring of tenants works

    Monitoring of tenants works

    Client type: Managing Agent
    Location: Woodley
    Role: Landlord Surveyor
    Value: £30,000

    Particulars:
    - Adjacent maisonettes to the rear
    - High street location
    - Structural propping and lintel repairs

  • External repairs to parade

    External repairs to parade

    Client type: Managing Agent
    Location: Northfield, Birmingham
    Role: Landlord Surveyor
    Value: £75,000

    Particulars:
    - Numerous tenants
    - High street location
    - Differing lease obligations

  • Roof recovering and internal refurbishment

    Roof recovering & internal refurbishment

    Client type: Insurer
    Location: Great Barr
    Role: Contract Administrator/Project Manager
    Value: £200,000

    Particulars:
    - 8No. occupied maisonettes to relocate
    - Trading shops below
    - On-going wet weather conditions

  • Roof replacement and structural repairs

    Roof replacement & structural repairs

    Client type: Insurer
    Location: Gillingham
    Role: Contract Administrator/Project Manager
    Value: £230,000

    Particulars:
    - Time pressure from insurer to complete works
    - Close proximity of residential property
    - Residue contamination to structure

  • Roof recovering and internal repairs

    Roof recovering & internal repairs

    Client type: Insurer
    Location: St Helens
    Role: Contract Administrator/Project Manager
    Value: £20,000

    Particulars:
    - Access over adjacent property
    - Water ingress tracking under asphalt
    - Perimeter flashing theft resulting in internal damage

  • New build office and factory

    New build office & factory

    Client type: Tenant & Occupier
    Location: Lincoln
    Role: Tenant's Surveyor
    Value: £12,000,000

    Particulars:
    - Turnkey development
    - Tenant equipment installations
    - Fit-out project management

  • New build engineering laboratory

    New build engineering laboratory

    Client type: Tenant & Occupier
    Location: Manchester
    Role: Employer's Agent
    Value: £4,200,000

    Particulars:
    - Fast-track design and build
    - BREEAM Excellent
    - Automated window venting to first floor

  • New restaurant and training facility

    New restaurant & training facility

    Client type: Tenant & Occupier
    Location: Cheltenham
    Role: Employer's Agent & Cost Consultant
    Value: £1,200,000

    Particulars:
    - Feature design
    - Extensive specialist landscaping
    - Kitchen fit-out integration

  • New build office

    New build office

    Client type: Tenant & Occupier
    Location: Wells
    Role: Employer’s Agent
    Value: Undisclosed

    Particulars:
    - International client
    - Contaminated ground removal
    - Environmental credentials

  • New build sheltered accommodation

    New build sheltered accommodation

    Client type: Tenant & Occupiers
    Location: Bristol
    Role: Employer’s Agent
    Value: Undisclosed

    Particulars:
    - Tight site
    - Demolition
    - Sensitive planning conditions

  • Repairs to listed building

    Repairs to listed building

    Client type: Education providers
    Location: Bristol
    Role: Contract Administrator
    Value: Undisclosed

    Particulars:
    - Live environment
    - Listed building
    - Working at heights

  • Demolition and car park construction

    Demolition and car park construction

    Client type: Occupier
    Location: Manchester
    Role: Employer’s Agent
    Value: Undisclosed

    Particulars:
    - Phased car park construction
    - Live and busy office environment
    - Extensive services diversions

  • Site redevelopment

    Site redevelopment

    Client type: Managing Agents
    Location: Evesham
    Role: Employer’s Agent
    Value: Undisclosed

    Particulars:
    - Services diversions
    - Adjacent occupiers
    - Tight programme

  • Portfolio survey

    Portfolio survey

    Client type: Occupier
    Location: Nationwide
    Role: Conditions Surveyor
    Value: Undisclosed

    Particulars:
    - Large volume of surveys
    - Trading locations
    - Tablet information capture

  • Landlord dilapidations and repair works

    Landlord dilapidations & repair works

    Client type: Managing agents
    Location: Northwich
    Role: Landlord Surveyor and Contract Administrator
    Value: Undisclosed

    Particulars:
    - Contentious dilapidations claim
    - Extensive timber repairs
    - Structural issues

  • Fire reinstatement

    Fire reinstatement

    Client type: Landlords
    Location: Gillingham
    Role: Contract Administrator
    Value: Undisclosed

    Particulars:
    - Partial steel frame replacement
    - Envelope repairs
    - Smoke and water damage remedial works

  • Roof replacement

    Roof replacement

    Client type: Investor
    Location: Birmingham
    Role: Contract Administrator
    Value: Undisclosed

    Particulars:
    - Roof replacement
    - Full refit of 10No. Maisonettes
    - Trading retail on ground floor

  • Reinstatement works after fire damage

    Reinstatement works after fire damage

    Client type: Landlord
    Location: Worcester
    Role: Contract Administrator
    Value: Undisclosed

    Particulars:
    - Roof repairs and recovering
    - Water damage remedial works
    - Live construction site adjacent

  • Sports pitches

    Sports pitches

    Client type: Public bodies
    Location: Bristol
    Role: Employer’s Agent
    Value: Undisclosed

    Particulars:
    - Shared site and live environment
    - Multiple stakeholders
    - OJEU tendering

  • Cost estimates for repairs

    Cost estimates for repairs

    Client type: Public bodies
    Location: Calne
    Role: Landlord’s Surveyor
    Value: Undisclosed

    Particulars:
    - Identified defectives
    - Provided cost advice
    - Consider sustainable improvement measures

  • New KFC & Domino's Pizza outlet

    New KFC & Domino's Pizza outlet

    Client type: Developer
    Location: Bristol/Bath
    Role: Employer’s Agent
    Value: £550,000

    Particulars:
    - Two separate buildings
    - Detailed Agreement for Lease
    - Buildings occupied on Practical Completion