MEP Dilapidations Consultancy
Dilapidations advice is critical for landlords and occupiers. To preserve asset value, minimise waste or deterioration, secure compensation, verify the validity and quantum of a claim or provide statutory protection.
Our expertise of complex MEP building services systems allows TFT’s engineers and consultants to work with your legal team and appointed building surveyor to understand lease obligations and identify a strategy for lease end. This will typically include repairing defective building services installations, reinstating modified systems and removing occupiers’ equipment.
In addition, our commercial dilapidation’s advice helps clients navigate health and safety, statutory and legislative implications, as well as technical obsolescence and improvement issues which may complicate a claim.
We simplify the dilapidations process and reduce the risk of delays and later disputes by working with landlords and occupiers prior to commencement.
This includes identifying and managing the completion of works to ensure that the building installations are in suitable condition for an incoming occupier and provide the building documentation that is required. We support occupiers by undertaking due diligence, prior to agreement for lease, to safeguard against inheriting an existing dilapidations liability, including understanding maintenance obligations and service charge, repairing and reinstatement liabilities to help manage overall expenditure during the lease period.
By addressing unexpected works, we can mitigate against extended periods of time before a building/demise is suitable for occupation, leading to loss of rent for the landlord and occupants incurring additional costs during their fit out.
In preparing for lease end, we allow potential liability to be considered in good time and budgeted for. This can include reviewing appropriate maintenance and statutory inspection records, outstanding defects, potential validation works and reinstatement works/costs.
Not all defects and reinstatement works can be identified by a visual inspection, which may only provide part of the story with regards to the condition and reliability of services plant items. We specify the testing and validation works that provide evidence of the state of repair, confirm actual works required and corroborate costs.
With a combination of technical engineering knowledge alongside an understanding of landlord and tenant law, we improve the transparency of dilapidations claims, as well as reducing settlement timescales, and making claim and reimbursement of costs more equitable.
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Meet our team
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.
Marc Hill
Marc is a Senior Director and head of the TFT M&E consultancy core service line. He specialises in technical due diligence, dilapidations, defect diagnosis and the condition of building services.
Having worked as an M&E consultant for in excess of 20 years, he also has extensive knowledge and capabilities in maintenance contract specification and procurement, auditing and monitoring and planned maintenance reviews.
Marc has provided technical advice for a number of prestigious, seminal and landmark buildings including the London Stock Exchange headquarters, East Village (Olympic Village, London), the Bank of England and The O2 Arena (in its former guise as The Millennium Dome).
Marc’s strategic client relationships include St James’s Place Wealth Management, Cording Real estate Group, Boultbee Brookes, Ashdown Phillips and Partners, Vine Property Management, Northwood Investors and Workman.
He has authored a number of articles on subjects such as technical due diligence, dilapidations and how the operation and maintenance of low zero carbon technologies post occupancy can affect intended design performance and calculated assessment ratings.
Simon Applegate
Simon is based in TFT's Bristol office. He is an Electrical Engineer with over 30 years experience in the Building Services industry and has a broad base of mechanical and electrical engineering knowledge from working within both a Contracting and Consulting environment.
Simon’s experience includes both new build and refurbishment projects in the commercial office, industrial, production and retail sectors.
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