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Inspections, Surveys, Audit & Feasibility Studies
As licensed professionals, we expand our services beyond typical buyer/seller inspections for the real estate market. We inspect property using extensive checklists and detailed audits. Our reports provide an analysis of both immediate and long-term investment strategies for phasing construction and modernizing to “go green”.
Property Inspections with Seismic Risk
Property Condition Assessments (PCAs) along
with Seismic Structural Risk Assessments can assess
property conditions as base line for providing reports
to assist investors, developers, businesses, and lenders
in the decision making process when purchasing, selling,
leasing, lending investing, upgrading, altering and
phasing improvements to a property.
Without appropriate inspections to manage
maintenance budgets, deferred maintenance items may
require costly replacement prematurely. Instead, a final
survey of deficiencies, with recommendations for
expedient repair to deferred maintenance, and remedies
can be produced in a detailed report with a supporting
log of photos. For smaller projects, such as residences,
we provide a narrative assessment report. Some projects
require only a quick visual walk-through of the subject
property to provide a professional opinion for property
comparisons, before performing a deeper assessment that
would mitigate financial risk or liability to the
client. For other projects, a broad scope of studies
should be undertaken.
Our office can
provide additional inspection and testing services for
a more in-depth view of the property. You can specify
deviations to meet individual needs based upon
proposed building use. Services that are more
comprehensive than conventional inspection standards
are available. Some examples would include dismantling
and testing of equipment, regular Construction
Inspection and “peer review” surveys, Mold
Inspections, Warranty Inspections, Yearly Inspections,
Air Quality, Energy Usage, Grading and Drainage,
Structural Deficiencies and Historic Renovations.
These and other expanded assessment services are
conducted by multidisciplinary teams of licensed
architects and specialized engineers, who develop
immediate and long term reports that keep buildings
functioning properly while extending their useful
lives.
Property Improvements
In addition, as architects we can computerize
the entire project onto an electronic file with CAD
drawings, providing an as-built online. Taking a step
further, we input graphic data into an expansion of
services, including ADA compliance, energy conservation
audits, and feasibility options for proposed major
additions. This information can later generate ADA
upgrades, green enhancements, and other modernization
for rehab or major capital improvements. Our office can
generate retrofit blueprint drawings from design through
end-of-bid and construction.
For
more
Info, see Audits
for green enhancements/Inspections
For more Info, see On Investing/Flipping Inspections
Contact: John Salat at freeingwinds@earthlink.net
or call (949) 235-4847