Reveal what’s hidden within your building structure with expert fabric surveys that provide certainty for refurbishment, compliance, and safety decisions.
Your building’s structural fabric holds critical information that’s often hidden from view. Whether you’re managing heritage buildings, planning refurbishments, assessing RAAC risks, or evaluating capacity for new loads, understanding what lies beneath surfaces and within structural elements is essential.
Our comprehensive building fabric survey services combine advanced non-destructive techniques with targeted intrusive investigations to give you complete clarity about your structure’s condition, composition, and capability.
Common Building Fabric Surveys concerns we help resolve:
- Unknown structural composition beneath finishes
- RAAC identification and assessment requirements
- Planning structural alterations or load changes
- Assessing floor capacity for new equipment or usage
- Understanding concealed deterioration or defects
See Beyond Surfaces with Non-Destructive Investigation
Why risk costly assumptions when you can know for certain?
Our non-destructive survey techniques reveal steel reinforcement locations and dimensions, identify structural connections, detect voids and defects, and map hidden elements, all without damaging finishes or disrupting operations.
From ferroscan imaging to ultrasonic testing and borescope inspections, we provide detailed insights that inform confident decision-making whilst preserving your building fabric.
Intrusive Fabric Surveys
Sometimes you need absolute certainty. Our intrusive fabric surveys provide direct access to structural elements for detailed assessment and testing.
Whether exposing steelwork for dimension surveys and sampling, undertaking trial pitting to reveal foundations, or creating access points for internal inspections, we deliver the definitive data that critical decisions demand. Our experienced team minimises disruption whilst maximising the value of information gathered.
Ensure Safety and Compliance with Specialist Assessments
From RAAC surveys that identify potentially dangerous concrete planks to floor slab assessments that verify load capacity, our specialist surveys address specific safety and compliance concerns.
We conduct:
- Wall tie surveys for façade safety
- Crack monitoring to track structural movement
- Load-deflection testing to verify performance
- Paint analysis to identify hazardous materials
Our DH15 sub-station materials testing condition surveys allow aging infrastructure assets to be assed with certainty to extend life expectancy and allow re-use of existing structures within electrical sub-stations to reduce costly replacement, downtime and carbon emissions when upgrading the nations critical infrastructure. Our comprehensive approach gives you confidence in your ability to reduce infrastructure replacement costs and design a more environmentally sustainable future in construction.
Make Informed Decisions with Reliable Data
Uncertainty drives up costs and creates risk. Our building fabric surveys eliminate guesswork, providing the evidence base for cost-effective refurbishment planning, accurate structural calculations, and compliant building management.
Whether you’re a facilities manager assessing ageing assets, a developer planning conversions, or a duty-holder managing building safety risks, our investigations deliver the clarity you need to proceed with confidence.
