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Andrew Ferrznolo

Mark Day

Neil Wotherspoon

Navigate building safety requirements with practical, joined-up support from experienced specialists.

TFT helps building owners, investors and developers understand their responsibilities, manage building safety risks and deliver improvement and remediation works with confidence.

Our multidisciplinary team combines technical, project and commercial expertise to support you from initial assessment through to completed works.

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Building safety expertise from assessment to remediation

Building safety projects can involve complex regulation, multiple stakeholders and difficult decisions around risk, cost and programme.

We bring the right specialists together to give you a clear route forward, whether you need to understand the condition of an existing building, navigate building safety regulations and responsibilities, investigate potential fire safety issues, plan remediation works or manage a project through to completion.

We can help you

  • Understand the risks affecting your building and identify where further investigation may be required
  • Establish the right course of action, from initial assessment through to remediation
  • Plan works around cost, programme and operational constraints
  • Coordinate the specialists and stakeholders involved
  • Manage remediation works through design, procurement and delivery
  • Monitor progress and quality on site
  • Maintain the technical information and evidence needed throughout the project

Why work with TFT?

Joined-up expertise

Building safety projects often require input from several disciplines. Our multidisciplinary approach brings that expertise together, helping you make informed decisions and move projects forward with greater clarity and coordination.

Practical advice

We work extensively with existing buildings, where incomplete information, occupied properties and legacy issues can make safety improvements complex. Our advice balances technical requirements with cost, programme, disruption and deliverability.

Evidence-based approach

As an independent consultancy, we provide clear, objective guidance focused on your building, its users and the outcomes you need to achieve. This helps you make informed decisions based on evidence, risk and practical priorities.

Proven experience

Our building safety work spans investigations, technical assessments, remediation planning and project delivery across a wide range of existing buildings, including complex cladding, external wall and remediation programmes.

Meet our team

Andrew Ferrznolo

Andrew is based in the London office and is part of the Project Consultancy team. Andrew joined TFT in 2006 and qualified as a Chartered Building Surveyor in 2009. Having started his career as a building surveyor, he has a well rounded experience of construction related matters which today are applied successfully in his role as a Project Manager. His areas of expertise are Project Management and Employer's Agent.

He is currently project managing in a wide range of projects including a new build residential scheme, an office to hotel conversion and a variety of value add mixed use office and retail schemes.

He has been involved in many interesting projects however one of the most enjoyable one was the redevelopment of Greenwich Market, a world heritage site. The scheme involved replacing the roof and restoring the structure, replacing all of the public realm, creating a new food quarter with bespoke feature canopy, construction of new build retail units and a new storage building for the traders.

Andrew enjoyed the logistical and phasing challenges which the scheme had in abundance as the works had to be completed without closing the market and with an immovable completion date due to the Royal Opening.

Mark Day

Mark heads up the M&E Professional services line for TFT and also has extensive knowledge and experience in the completion of Technical Due Diligence (TDD) surveys for commercial, industrial and larger domestic properties across the UK and in Europe.

TDD surveys undertaken at TFT have ranged between single office buildings to portfolios of different types of buildings that are located all around the UK. These surveys have previously included a large private estate in the centre of Birmingham that is served by a private high voltage electrical supply system with combined heat and power systems (CHP) and district heating systems to serve approximately 3,500 flats and apartments.

Mark has also substantial experience in the compilation of M&E Dilapidation schedules and in the subsequent negotiations process. Once the dilapidations schedules have been finalised Mark undertakes the project management role to ensure the associated rectification and remedial works are fully completed to return the property to the original configuration.

As part of the M&E Maintenance Management service Mark undertakes all aspects of the formal tender process for M&E maintenance contracts from start to finish including the compilation of bespoke asset registers and contract specification documents and all aspects of the formal tender analysis process.

Neil Wotherspoon

Neil’s areas of expertise are development monitoring, technical due diligence (TDD) and dilapidations. He also has a keen interest in sustainability. He is a Senior Director, head of TFT’s Edinburgh office and part of the firm’s TDD and dilapidations working party. He is a member of the Scottish Property Federation Building Standards and Sustainability Committees.

Neil's prominent clients include Nuveen, APG, Tishman Speyer, Aviva, Steinhoff, Tesco, Legal and General, Amber Infrastructure and Homebase.

Neil’s principal instruction is the Project Monitoring of St James Quarter, Edinburgh, a mixed-use development in the heart of Edinburgh on behalf of the investors, APG and Nuveen. Neil’s involvement started at the construction contract stage in October 2016. The leisure and retail element of the development is due for completion in Spring 2021 with the other elements (Hotel, Residential, Cinema and Aparthotel) due for completion in Autumn 2022. Development costs are in the region of £1billion and comprise 850,000sq ft of retail, 214 room Hotel, Cinema, Aparthotel and 152 Residential Apartments.

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