Brown + Wallace can provide adjudication advice to all parties engaged in construction projects that involve the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1995. The advice
can range from an informal opinion on a contractual problem, including options for negotiation and dispute resolution through to quickly mobilising a team to prepare or defend referral notices. We offer a flexible yet highly professional approach by experienced and qualified specialists and are always willing to work with the clients own professional team and legal advisors.

The Building Surveying section at Brown + Wallace offers a wide range of property surveys and reports. Our established links to specialist companies provides a co-ordinated one-stop shop for a variety of surveys including rot, asbestos and roof reports. As Building Surveyors Brown + Wallace have extensive experience of procuring and supervising any construction works identified within our Building Survey reports. Condition surveys are a regular part of our work. We undertake detailed inspections of the architectural details and materials of a building to determine future maintenance requirements and develop budget projections and scheduling of works. You need not have any concern about the compatibility issues with our IT system. We can tailor our programme to suit your needs, where necessary working with external software companies to ensure that all data produced will be manageable and useable by your system.

The experience which Brown + Wallace have acquired in a wide range of building types enables us to provide Condition Surveys to private individuals and commercial firms for assessing and reporting on building defects in all kinds of properties. The Condition Survey Report is bespoke for each individual property and highlights methods of construction, current condition, reasons for problems, potential lifespan and recommendations for current and future maintenance. Brown + Wallace can also provide Scott Schedules and assist in negotiating the costs associated with end of lease dilapidations for both landlords and tenants.

Construction audits and forensic quantity surveying services can be employed primarily to ensure that the projects' value and cost criteria have met the client's brief. Via our skills in both quantity surveying and project management, Brown + Wallace are both experienced and qualified to audit and report on the integrity and financial matters relative to your project.

Brown + Wallace have extensive experience in preparing development appraisals for a variety of commercial, industrial, residential and retail clients. From our experience we subsequently translate the sketches, drawings and technical outputs of architects and engineers into facts and figures. Our ability to quickly and accurately provide cost modelling over a number of alternative development proposals will assist in unlocking the full potential of a development site.

Brown + Wallace can provide expert witness services and specialist professional advice on a range of cost issues and contractual matters. Our Client base includes solicitors, insurance companies and loss adjusters as well as those responsible for housing maintenance, facilities management and acquisition. We offer clear and objective expert analysis by experienced professionals who have both relevant and diverse technical expertise and the ability to prepare and present Expert Witness Reports.

Brown + Wallace have been commissioned by a variety of developers, LEC’s, local authorities and social housing providers on a number of feasibility studies associated with commercial, housing, industrial, retail and urban renewal projects. We are equally comfortable in either providing costing and development appraisal advice as members of a feasibility study team or taking the lead as report authors and controlling the input of the other design team members into the feasibility study.

At Brown + Wallace we can provide advice on completing applications for a variety of public sector, local authority and lottery grant applications. We have experience in discounted cash flow techniques and through the application of analytical spreadsheets ensure that grant funding is maximised.

Since the introduction of the Latham Report Brown + Wallace have been involved in the cutting edge of Partnering arrangements for a number of Client bodies. We are versed in the structure of Partnering Charters and will be delighted to inform you of our experience in associated partnering issues such as Key Performance Indicators, Smart Targets, Partnering Workshops and the like.

Central government policy supports the application of PPP
on projects including sectors such as health, education and infrastructure works. Brown + Wallace have senior members of staff with broad experience in this form of procurement. The integration of our extensive commercial experience coupled with our expertise in whole life costing makes Brown + Wallace an invaluable member of the PPP/PFI team.

Brown + Wallace provide a comprehensive Project Monitoring service to a number of the major industrial lenders. The provision of private finance generally requires key project criteria to be fulfilled and independently reported upon. We have developed management systems which ensure that the lenders interests are established and protected throughout the duration of the development.

As Project Managers Brown + Wallace provide a single point of contact during the development process. Brown + Wallace have extensive experience in managing both design teams and construction contracts. We understand that final project delivery invariably lies beyond the completion of a construction contract and often involves the integration of the Clients specific processes and systems into a completed structure. Our philosophy is to fully assimilate and understand the needs and requirements of our Clients and to focus our attention on the successful delivery of their completed project. The Brown + Wallace approach ensures that our Clients are free to concentrate on the multitude of other business priorities that they invariably have outwith the construction project.

Brown + Wallace believe that the CDM Co-ordinator's role is best performed not by a single person but by a team with varied experience and technical expertise. This team is co-ordinated by a lead CDM Co-ordinator who is the single point of contact for the Client. Brown + Wallace have created effective health and safety analyses and risk management systems developed around the various design and procurement procedures,. Our systems meet the statutory requirements effectively without limiting a designer’s inventiveness yet minimises bureaucracy and unnecessary paperwork.

The Quantity Surveying team at Brown + Wallace provides effective cost management on all types of building and civil engineering contracts from inception to completion. Typically the services that we provide include cost planning, contract procurement, preparing bills of quantities and other pricing schedules. Brown + Wallace similarly provide advice on tendering procedures, valuing work in progress, monitoring project expenditure at all stages, ascertaining final accounts and applying our knowledge of construction law in the settlement of contractual disputes.

Successful projects require the fundamental and dynamic issue of risk to be addressed. At Brown + Wallace we have the requisite skills and provide a considered and managed approach to managing risk. This is best achieved from the outset of a project which initially requires risks to be registered and categorised. Subsequently and from our in-depth experience a Qualitative Analysis is prepared for each risk which in turn provides a strategy for the management, ownership or possible transference of same.

A particular attribute of Brown + Wallace is to recognise the importance of value to our clients. In illustrating this from a practical aspect our role initially involves establishing the value criteria with the client and subsequently developing a management structure which is both accountable and transparent. From this process design elements and functionality are addressed which specifically enhance value and thus benefit the development's worth.

The key to any Life Cycle Costing exercise is having a disciplined, accountable approach that is co-ordinated between design, purchasing, maintenance and technical functions within an organisation. Brown + Wallace are ideally placed to introduce the processes and necessary disciplines to be adopted, and can act as facilitators during the implementation. Brown + Wallace take a realistic and holistic approach to Life Cycle Costing providing each client with a bespoke report and user-friendly interface that can be integrated into their existing reporting systems.