Reasons to Hire the Professional Property Surveyors for Your Project

by Vision Surveys Land Surveyor Companies & Consultants Perth

Often the new residential building project owners tend to overlook appointing the property surveyors in their construction projects. As stated in the amendments made in the Building Act, all landowners in Perth have to allow their builders to take guidance from the property surveyors for ensuring smooth and legal workflow.

The property surveyors in Perth have to put on their creativity and transparency to, and above all, they are registered. Thus they can provide their independent yet legal oversight regarding the construction work to make sure the buildings are absolutely safe for usage and access, built according to the building permit, and are energy efficient.

Being qualified in their field, they actively assess the building control processes like the designs and drawings, specifications, apt computations, and reports to make sure these aspects have clearly compiled with the Building Act 1993, National Construction Code, and Building Regulations 2018.

At the same time, the property surveyors conduct inspections to survey each stage of the construction build-up. A survey is extremely helpful to highlight the existing constraints in a plan which the architects, engineers, consultants and the council can read. A few of these constraints often pertain to the site locations, site dimensions, topography, easements limitations, underground services positons, and adjoining buildings.

The appointed surveyors are even responsible for the protection of the illegal building procedures, as they monitor the existing work legality by conducting specific tasks like the direct to fix non-compliant work.

Once the completion stage is reached, the property surveyors take the responsibility to issue an occupancy permit or certificate of final inspections. Being registered practitioners, they conduct the surveys in the new residential constructions that require a five-stage inspection, which could cost up to the amount of $2,500. According to the industry adage, the property surveyors are the “best insurance policy money is able to buy”.

A property surveyor even functions on preventive measures to maintain a proper condition of the buildings and find out the ways for making the buildings sustainable. Often, their works are related to more than building inspections and constructions, and they are called upon as the expert witness on the defects of the buildings so evidence can be easily given in court cases wherever the building regulations were violated or breached. It is said that they even prepare the insurance assessments as well as claims on behalf of their clients. Before laying the foundation stone, make sure to consult the property surveyors.