MEP Technical Due Diligence
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Buildings are constructed to last, but the world around them is constantly changing. The mechanical and electrical systems that serve them have shorter life expectancies, while legislation, compliance requirements, new technology and design solutions are driving up standards for best practice and sustainable performance. Occupiers have a greater understanding and are more demanding in terms of the property requirements. This allows them to future proof their investments and improve end user experience, workforce wellbeing and effectiveness and reduce operational costs. Commercial risks of a landlord/investor falling short include reputational damage from sub-standard delivery, and asset obsolescence in the long term.
Technical due diligence (TDD) identifies and manages these risks to facilitate acquisition and disposal of commercial property. TFT’s Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing TDD (MEP TDD) consultancy supports clients by identifying the risks presented by building services systems to our clients’ property investment goals and future needs.
We know how MEP systems are designed, how they function and how they can fail. We also understand design criteria, maintenance, servicing and compliance. We work closely with our clients to recognise their investment strategies and apply this knowledge to advise purchasers and occupiers on the condition of complex building services installations, along with the cost, impact and responsibility for improving them. We support sustainable investment strategies, assessing the long-term picture of environmental, social and economic impacts across the building lifecycle.
We can help embed sustainable outcomes in development, operation and transaction processes to save clients significant costs and loss of value when it comes to ‘catching up’ with more progressive regulations and market expectations in future.
Our engineers and consultants assess buildings against new legislation, standards and certification schemes to ensure our analysis is relevant to the needs of all kinds of building investors.
These can include:
- Resilience to climate change
- Net zero carbon
- Energy Performance Certificates
- BREEAM and LEED
- Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards
- WELL Building Standards and Fitwell
Our team includes CIBSE accredited engineers and consultants who have years of technical and management experience of commercial properties.
We have provided TDD advice on buildings ranging from basic industrial units to some of the UK’s most complex and valuable buildings, as well as properties across Europe.
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Meet our team
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.
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.
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