Services
Products and Services
Construction Monitoring
Acting on behalf of third parties or prospective owners or occupiers, in monitoring a project to ensure quality, target costs and programmes are achieved.
Feasibility Studies
To prepare feasibility advice on potential projects to include statutory considerations, design options, costs, programme and procurement options.
Legal
The practice and experience to provide the following advice:
- Boundary disputes
- Party Wall Act
- Pre-lease condition surveys
- Schedules of dilapidations
- Value in construction work in progress
- Issuing certificates for payment of construction projects
- Remedial works for building defects
- Fire and insurance reinstatement
- Compliant expert witness
Construction (Design & Management) Regulations 2007 - CDM
Providing advice on the CDM regulations and undertaking the role of CDM Co-ordinator.
Architectural Design
David McGuire & Associates have the experience and technical knowledge to provide a full and comprehensive building design service of commercial and industrial developments, residential estates (high and low density), single houses, nursing homes, restaurants and leisure;
Submitting and obtaining planning permissions and approvals under the Building Regulations;
The practice has extensive experience in designing and overseeing refurbishment and repair works and also new build for private and commercial clients.
Past work includes extensive experience of large scale residential development particularly in high cost development.
Architectural services include:
a) Initial feasibility studies/budget costs.
b) Outline proposals
c) Listed building applications
d) Planning applications
e) Building regulation approvals
f) Detailed drawings
g) Detailed specification of works
h) Obtaining competitive tenders
i) Monitoring works on site
j) Value works in progress and issue relevant certificates
k) Arrange for formal contract documents to be drawn up
l) Undertake final inspections
m) Issue notices/preconstruction health and safety plans under CDM Regulations
Building Surveying Residential
- Building and structural surveys
- Mortgage defect reports
- New homes
- Compliant expert witness
Commercial
- Building and structural surveys
- Defect surveys
- Measured surveys
- Condition stock surveys
- Planned maintenance
- Compliant expert witness
Project management
- Preparing briefs, obtaining quotations, co-ordinating activities of various contractors up to completion of the project including monitoring of work on site, assessing interim payments and issuing contract certificates.
- Acting as employer's representative in monitoring works by design and build contractors including assessing interim payment and issuing contract certificates.
- Acting as tenant representative to ensure works proposed by landlord/others are to the specification agreed.