COMMERCIAL INSPECTIONS
WHAT TYPE OF COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES DO WE INSPECT?
Restaurants
Offices
Warehouses
Hotels
Bed & Breakfast Properties
Dentist, Doctors and Veterinarian Clinics
Retail Stores
The key to a quality Commercial Building Inspection Report is finding someone with experience. Our assessors are all highly experienced in building inspections and are licensed and certified. Our property inspection practice is so large that in most national markets we have specialists for each major property type; in other words, we can staff a garden-style apartment building and a high-rise office building with inspectors specializing in that property type. Again: experience is everything.
COMMERCIAL BUILDING INSPECTION REPORT SCOPE OF WORK
Our Commercial Building Inspections comply with the scope of work specified in and includes a comprehensive visual inspection of the building's construction including the following:
Building structure and foundation
Roof condition and remaining useful life
Building envelope
ADA accessibility
Electrical panels and wiring
Tenant improvements
Pavement systems
Plumbing fixtures and piping
Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems
Elevators and conveyance systems
Landscape, irrigation, site grading & drainage
COMMERCIAL BUILDING INSPECTORS
Our Commercial Building Inspections are done by a single experienced building inspector or by a team of inspectors. We often deploy teams of 3 to 6 inspectors. The team will always be captained by our senior building inspector and may include sub-specialists such as a Structural Engineer, an HVAC specialist, an energy auditor, an ADA Inspector, and/or a Licensed Elevator Inspector. The benefits of sub-specialists are great. For example, our building inspector may have inspected thousands of elevators in his or her career, but without an elevator inspector's license, he will not be able to open the shaft and inspect beneath the cab.
ESSENTIALS BUILDING INSPECTION REPORT FINDINGS
Regardless of the level of Commercial Building Inspection (Property Condition Report) ordered, our inspector will find:
Inadequate design
Improper maintenance or worn systems
Equipment nearing the end of its useful life
Building code violations
Poor workmanship
Most of our clients request a standard narrative Property Condition Report. The narrative report discusses each building system and will describe all of the significant concerns or defects that were found during the inspection. Each report will include a table of immediate repairs and a table of replacement reserves over the desired reserve period.