Condition Surveys
We offer an assessment service to the built environment which provides condition survey work on any structure. This work includes highway structures, commercial and public premises and residential buildings.
The results can be used to assess the structural stability, aging, corrosion and degradation of steel and concrete structures; to assist engineers by the production of structural drawings detailing vertical load paths and horizontal stability systems as well as connections and building fabric details; and finally during forensic engineering to determine the causes of any structural defects and failures.
The durability of concrete structures can be endangered by two different processes: the disintegration of the concrete material as such on the expansive corrosion of the embedded reinforcement causing spalling and cracking of the concrete.
The causes of both can be either aggressive attack of substances in the external environment, or deleterious ingredients within the concrete. Information gained can be verified by a complete suite of insitu tests to determine the condition and causes of any defects to the structure, the durability of the structure and the requirement for any remedial works.
This information can be used to assess the structural suitability for redevelopment or change of use of an existing structure.
