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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