Now that party wall work has been drying up for the past two months and the majority of surveyor staff are either working from home or furloughed, how can we get back to work in an efficient way while lockdown progressively eases? Sunday’s PM speech gave broad guidelines but what can you do now to make sure instructions flow your way once business picks up again. In this podcast Philippe will explain what you can do to (i) speed up the process to get your instructions back up; (ii) run an efficient party wall practice while managing your team remotely; and (iii) save money on the way
I’ve had a few customers ask for my views on what to do now that party wall work has dried up. As a matter of fact it’s most of the work surveyors do face to face that has dried up, not just party walls. Because party wall professionals are my customers it is my duty to put ideas out there to help you cope with these difficult times. I am not covering how many people have been infected or how…
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Rob French, an equity partner at Delva Patman Redler, tells us about the unique issues arising with digging basements next to basements and provides practical advice to surveyors confronted with these problems.
Michael Cooper, head of Neighbourly Matters at Colliers International and Chairman of the Working Group on RICS Party Wall Legislation and Procedure 7th edition Guidance Note walks us through the most important changes of the 7th edition and how to implement them.
Four years after launching our flagship product Party Wall PRO, on the 23rd of September 2019 we officially released our second software tool for Party Wall Surveyors: SurveyKit. SurveyKit is the only software designed specifically for party wall Schedule of Condition reports. In this blog post I will explain how this new project was born and talk a bit about the problems that SurveyKit is solving. How did it all begin? Back in the early days of Party Wall PRO we…
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I talk to party wall surveyors as much as I can because, as I am running Party Wall PRO, it is my duty to understand how the industry is doing and where it is heading. Not being a surveyor myself, I need to understand the subtleties of what drives surveyors’ businesses and the profession as a whole. Over the past year, the majority of people I talk to are telling me that things have slowed down. The reasons are numerous…
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In this episode, Shirley Waldron of Delva Patman Redler talks about her work with Crossrail and how the Crossrail Act affected the application of the Party Wall Etc. Act 1996.
Shirley also gives her views on the effectiveness of the Party Wall Etc. Act 1996, its failings and what kind of amendments could be put forward and her opinion on whether all leaseholders are entitled to service of notice for works under section 6 of the Party Wall Etc. Act 1996.
This blog post is about the most important events and highlights of 2018 here at Party Wall PRO: January/February: The first achievement of the year was rolling out the Online Acknowledgement Forms (OAF) which allows Adjoining Owners to go “paperless”. They finally can fill acknowledgment forms online on a page that resembles the paper version. The Building Owner’s surveyor receive a response very quickly which enables them to carry on with the process rather than wait several days or even…
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In this episode, Stuart Birrell talks about party wall fees, good practices, training for Party Wall surveyors and much more.
In this episode, Andrew Schofield gives his views, interpretations and opinion on invoking the Party Wall etc. Act 1996 without serving a notice; the scope of Section 7(2) compensation; rights and obligations in using drones for surveys; demystifying the old conflict between the Pyramus and Thisbe Club and the Faculty of Party Wall Surveyors.
