TECHNICAL EXPERTISE, DIAGNOSIS, SOLUTIONS, AND TECHNICAL SUPPORT

MAKE SURE THAT...
you are requesting your expertise service to a reputable professional, with the technical capacity required, who is registered in Order of Engineers. Check if the professional you are hiring is accredited by the EO , through the website of the Order of Engineers.

DID YOU KNOW...
Many expert reports are discredited in court, as the opposing party claims that the expert who carried out the expert report is not properly accredited and/or does not have technical capacity and experience to carry out the expert report.

HOW ARE THE EXPERTS PERFORMING?

Our technical expertise services are based on medicine concepts so we try to bring them tothe construction: monitoring, diagnosing, and predicting possible solutions. We use test equipment if it’s needed.

The following steps will be followed in this process:

  • Inspection/visits –Observation;
  • Analysis of the information collected on technical visits – Diagnosis;
  • Report writing with technical prescriptions –Prescription

BUILDING PATHOLOGIES

Characterization of the Building

Identification and characterization of elements and systems. Constructive and structural typology. Constructive identity. Interventions history.

Inspection and Diagnosis

Assessment of the state of conservation of a building, in whole or in part.

Damages and anomalies identification, causes and agents at their origin, and their expected future evolution:

  • Water infiltration and installations rupture;
  • Excessive humidity due to condensations: constructive and ascending;
  • Cracks, detachments, structural elements or coating excessive deformations;
  • Stains, efflorescence, rotting, corrosion;
  • Situations of discomfort in use, among others.
  • Structures and constructive elements monitoring.
  • Expertise and technical opinions. Support in litigation or other situations.

PURPOSES

  • Technical expertise for the courts;
  • Procedures for withdrawing bank guarantees;
  • Conflict resolution with the contractor;
  • Percentage financial analysis of the contract against the contractor;
  • Building rehabilitation works;
  • Creation of quantity maps and constructive solutions;
  • Early property purchase;
  • Diagnosis until cost estimate;
  • BuildingMaintenance and conservation (Modelling in REVIT);
  • Building Maintenance Plans;
  • Study of contract documents;
  • Analysis of housing conservation;
  • Reports and budgets.

RECIPIENTS

  • Real estate agents
  • Owners and buyers of buildings or building fractions;
  • Condominium Managers;
  • Insurance Companies;
  • Real estate agencies;
  • Jurists in the preliminary stage of legal proceedings;
  • Owners on the initial phase of the construction process;
  • Lawyers /Jurists;
  • Solicitors;
  • Courts.

WHAT SERVICES ARE INCLUDED ON BUILDING EXPERTISE?

  • Survey and registration of construction work pathologies;
  • Measurements and tests (whenever necessary or in specific situations, the tests will be done by independent and certified laboratories nationally recognised;
  • Validation of all materials compatibility and adopted solutions in construction work with the actual regulations in force;
  • Exhaustive or sample-based validation of compliance with solutions and defined specifications in the projects prepared for the construction;
  • Analysis of the causes associated with the pathologies detected, whether natural or human caused (includes, whenever necessary, the analysis of the projects that served as basis for constructionworks);
  • Technical expertise report writing.

 

Providing solutions to repair detected pathologies:presentation of technical solutions (written and drawn parts, including supporting calculations and specifications) for building rehabilitation.

Advisory on the analysis and supervision of rehabilitation works: analysis of rehabilitation works proposals to be performed and monitoring of their execution.

Technical support in court: support to the law firm and provision of technical testimony in court, if necessary.

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