Step 1 · Competence
Whether this is ours to review.
What we do, in detail
Four services, each delivered within a competence and a scope we state.
Program 01 · A second pair of eyes
Technical review
A review before commitment is the cheapest engineering anyone buys. We read what has been produced and report plainly on what is sound, what is unsupported and what is missing. Where the honest conclusion is that the original designer has done a good job, that is the report you get rather than a manufactured list of concerns.
Step 2 · Read
Against what it claims to do.
Step 3 · Report
Sound, unsupported, missing.
Step 4 · Questions
What to ask before proceeding.
Step 1 · Inputs
What is given, and by whom.
Step 2 · Assumptions
Written into the output.
Step 3 · Calculate
To the stated basis.
Step 4 · Caveat
What would invalidate it.
Program 02 · Assumptions stated
Calculations and assessment
An assessment is only valid for the assumptions it states, so those go in the document rather than in a cover email. Change the loading, the use or the information we relied on and the assessment needs revisiting. We also do not independently verify supplied survey data unless instructed to, and we say which figures came from where.
Program 03 · What we could not see
Existing structures
Older structures hide their history: previous alterations, concealed defects, loadings nobody recorded. Without opening up, some of it simply cannot be known. So we list what we were unable to inspect instead of quietly treating it as adequate, and we say when opening up is the only honest way forward.
Step 1 · Records
Any drawings or history available.
Step 2 · Inspect
What is actually visible.
Step 3 · List gaps
What could not be examined.
Step 4 · Advise
Including opening up, if needed.
Step 1 · The question
Framed precisely, in writing.
Step 2 · Evidence
What we have, and have not.
Step 3 · Opinion
Reasoned, with its basis.
Step 4 · Limits
Stated on the document itself.
Program 04 · Not a certificate
Independent opinion
An opinion is not a compliance certificate and we will not let it be read as one. We are not a building control body and we do not certify Building Regulations compliance or statutory approval — those rest with the building control body. What we provide is a reasoned engineering view, with its limits on the face of it.
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