Graduate Surveyor - Building Consultancy

Job Title : Graduate Surveyor Department : Building Consultancy Location : London About us : We advise our clients on the full spectrum of building surveying services including, pre-acquisition advice, dilapidations, reinstatement cost assessments, defects advice, together with contract administration, employer’s agent and project management services. Our Building Consultancy team are currently delivering a variety of project management and contract administration instructions across numerous sectors, with project values ranging from minor works up to CAT A and B fit out projects of office spaces. We are also continuously undertaking a range of professional instructions including dilapidations, technical due diligence acquisition surveys, schedules of condition, PPM’s, feasibility studies, BRCAs and party walls. The clients include owners and occupiers and encompass a range of property types with live instructions within the retail, office, leisure, residential and industrial sectors. A career as a commercial Building Surveyor is extremely diverse and rewarding, allowing you to have a direct impact on our clients’ business. This comes in many forms, including : -

• Carrying out a variety of surveys before a company takes a lease on a building. This can include Due Diligence surveys, Pre-Acquisition surveys, Schedules of Condition.
• Advising on the extent of the financial liability in occupying a building and advising on how this can be minimised as part of a Planned Preventative Maintenance exercise.
• Valuing the cost of reinstatement of a building, to make sure that the owner has sufficient insurance cover in the event of fire or collapse.
• Project managing refurbishment of a variety of buildings, Allowing the buildings to be re-let as quickly as possible to minimise lost rental revenue for the client.
• Protecting a tenant when they are about to leave a building, ensuring that a reasonable level of damages or reinstatement is agreed upon with the landlord.
• Protecting a landlord when a tenant is leaving a building, ensuring that the building is reinstated, or a level of damages agreed in accordance with the lease requirements.
• Making sure that new build and refurbishment schemes are built in accordance with the scope of works in terms of quality and workmanship and compliance with Licences to Alter.

This opportunity : If successful the position will see you working within our growing Building Consultancy team, alongside the Head of the London team and our National Head of Building Consultancy. It will give you the opportunity to work closely with the team on a number of key commercial real estate projects that the business has been instructed on. As a Graduate Surveyor in the business the onus will be on you to support our team of chartered surveyors, whether this is taking part in site visits and pre-conditions or working with our learning & development team to stay up to date with your APC progress. In turn the business will work with you in order to progress your career towards chartered status. This opportunity exists for a : -

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