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Building Surveying - Building Permits

Building Permits, BCA audits, Due Diligence reports, Fire Safety Upgrades, Authority negotiations, BCA Alternative Solutions, and Aged Care Audits are just some of the services provided by the HENDRY Building Surveying Consultants.

Having introduced and pioneered private certification and private building approval systems in Australia in 1988, the HENDRY building surveying consultancy companies have extensive building surveying and essential safety measures experience in all sectors of the building and property industries.

HENDRY building surveying provides consultancy services in the evaluation of designs (building certification), auditing of properties, buildings and the issuing of building permits throughout Victoria.

Fire Safety Engineering & Alternative Solutions

The deemed to satisfy provisions of the Building Code of Australia (BCA) can often impose unnecessary building costs as a result of conservative provisions. The BCA is however, a performance-based code and its performance requirements can be used in building surveying in order to achieve an alternative solution to prescriptive specified standards. The performance requirements provide the criteria to ensure that regulatory objectives are achieved, and allow for alternative innovative, safe and cost effective building designs to be presented.

BCA Audits: Building Surveying

Since the BCA does not apply to buildings retrospectively and is being continually being revised and improved, most buildings in Victoria do not comply with the current Building Code of Australia, a building owner may consider a BCA Audit. A building owner wishing to sell, or a prospective purchaser of a building, may need to know whether the building complies with the current BCA in such areas as fire safety provisions, health and amenity provisions, access for disabled, services compliance and services life expectancy. HENDRY building surveying can provide building owners or prospective building purchasers with an accurate assessment of the compliance status of a building, so that informed decisions can be made.