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
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
Client type: Investors
Location: Bristol
Role: Employer’s Agent
Value: £4.4m
Particulars:
- Dilapidations negotiations
- Quality design
- Wired score platinum -
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
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
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
Client type: Funder
Location: Bridgewater
Role: Bank Surveyor for funding institution
Particulars:
- Complex funding arrangement
- Partial completion
- Tight timescales -
New health centre
Client type: Funder
Location: Taunton
Role: Bank Fund Surveyor
Particulars:
- Riverside location
- Tenant liaison issues
- Tight timescales -
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
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
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
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
Client type: Investor
Location: Lincoln
Role: Designer
Value: Pre-tender
Particulars:
- Role included dilapidations negotiations
- Feasibility studies
- Acoustic and thermal enhancements -
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
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 & 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
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
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
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
Client type: Managing Agent
Location: Northfield, Birmingham
Role: Landlord Surveyor
Value: £75,000
Particulars:
- Numerous tenants
- High street location
- Differing lease obligations -
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 & 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 & 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 & 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
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 & 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
Client type: Tenant & Occupier
Location: Wells
Role: Employer’s Agent
Value: Undisclosed
Particulars:
- International client
- Contaminated ground removal
- Environmental credentials -
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
Client type: Education providers
Location: Bristol
Role: Contract Administrator
Value: Undisclosed
Particulars:
- Live environment
- Listed building
- Working at heights -
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
Client type: Managing Agents
Location: Evesham
Role: Employer’s Agent
Value: Undisclosed
Particulars:
- Services diversions
- Adjacent occupiers
- Tight programme -
Portfolio survey
Client type: Occupier
Location: Nationwide
Role: Conditions Surveyor
Value: Undisclosed
Particulars:
- Large volume of surveys
- Trading locations
- Tablet information capture -
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
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
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
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
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
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
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