Chartered Building Surveyors RICS Chartered Architectural Technologists CIAT
RICS Registered Firm #026305 CIAT Practice #F0707
Albion Architecture & Surveying
Established in 1994
Albion Building Consultants, LONDON UK
FEATURED PROJECTS
At Albion we: Design Inspect Measure & Monitor
Commercial Building
Marylebone W1, Central London
For The Howard De Walden Estate we produced a Fire Safety set of floor plans for this commercial building.
At 70,000 sq.ft it was a major survey. The Client can now manage their fire safety systems more efficiently.
Private Villa
West Hill, Highgate
A & E Developments engaged Albion to oversee and monitor the construction of this new-build multi-million pound project.
With a waterfall and car turntable this project was special in many respects.
Private Apartments
Harrow, North West London
Albion were engaged to carry out an inspection of the new-build flats including the underground car park.
Whipps Cross, Hospital
East London
The client wanted a thermal scan survey to check for various potential defects. Our inspection detected a significant health-hazard lurking behind ducting.
PROPERTY VALUATIONS
PLEASE NOTE WE ARE NOT REGISTERED VALUERS. WE DO NOT PROVIDE VALUATIONS
OUR APPROACH
Technology working with good design
BUILDING DESIGN
As members of the CIAT Chartered Practice scheme we are qualified to design and monitor new-build projects, refurbishments and conversions.
We are members of The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB).
We believe in preserving our history through buildings from the past as well as modern architecture being of its time and not pastiche.
BUILDING INSPECTIONS
DRONE SURVEYS: We offer an aerial drone service for roof-covering and facade surveys of all types of buildings and construction sites.
Until further notice we are not entering occupied buildings for condition surveys.
EWS: Due to insurance limitations we can only inspect buildings up to 11 metres high to the top storey and they should have no visible cladding certified as flammable.
FIRE-SAFETY
We can provide internal fire-safety inspections of multi-storey residential and commercial buildings.
We are members of the Fire Protection Association, FPA.
We inspect external fire-escape stairs.
For interior surveys we check the common areas and fire-doors to apartments/suites, escape routes, fire-prevention measures and fire-detection elements.
We apply the recommendations of the Building Regulations as applicable.
MEASURED SURVEY
We can produce digital floor plans of any size and type of building for: redevelopment. fire-safety, facilities management or extension and conversion. We can provide laser-scanning for complex or historical buildings such as we did on a whole block in Oxford Street, London W1.
BUILDING DEFECTS
If you have fallen out with your builder and have contractual problems we can assist. There must be an industry-recognised contract in place and a builder with suitable certification such as Trust Mark, FMB, etc. We cannot assist on cash-only projects or those without a recognised contract in place.
AERIAL DRONE SURVEYS
We have completed scores of aerial property surveys in Central London using a UAV (aerial drone). This avoids expensive scaffolding, it is safer and quicker and saves client's time and money in managing their properties. Images up to 6MB and 4K videos are available.
