Condition Assessments

Building service condition assessments

Understand the services in your buildings

Book a building services report for a property you’re buying. Or plan a maintenance schedule to maximise the life of your building services and manage your spend.

“Honoris are very good at explaining complicated technical things without using technical jargon. Their reports are easy to read. Steve especially explains issues really clearly. He’s great at speaking with our clients”

Rory Crosbie, South Island Regional Manager, Prendos

For property investors

Make more informed decisions

If you’re buying a property, you don’t want unexpected costs. Many expensive problems don’t come from the building itself, but from poorly maintained building services. Understand the state of your building services before you buy.

For building surveyors

Manage your exposure to risk

Building service expertise for your technical due diligence reports. Building services can be the most expensive part of most buildings. Mitigate risk with an accurate report on building service assets, their condition, and the maintenance investment they require.

For property owners

Maintenance plans

Identify expensive issues before your building services break.

Know what assets you own.
Understand their condition.
Future plan your maintenance investment over 5-10 years.
Extend the lifespan of equipment and reduce capital spend.

Manage your property portfolio

Most property maintenance costs are building service repairs, and the damage caused when services fail. Understand when you're likely to have to spend money on building services to make informed decisions on whether to maintain your investment or put it on the market.

“We’ve built a good rapport with Honoris as a project team. They’ve been fantastic with their communication … they also added value by identifying and highlighting project constraints, and systematically working through them, solving problems as they came up. And they added a bit of innovation, which we really value.”

David Slater, Building Facilities Project Manager, University of Canterbury

The process for condition assessments

Condition assessments have four simple steps.

Site visit

We visit your building and do a limited inspection on a sample of building services. Usually, we don’t check every piece of plant and equipment because most condition assessments are conducted within a week to 10 days, and don’t allow time for a comprehensive investigation. We check services in ceiling spaces and plant rooms. We can, however, if required complete a more comprehensive review of the installed systems.
Audit equipment, identify risks and assess condition.

As part of our inspection, we:

Make a note of any areas unsafe to access.
Make a note of any building services that pose a safety risk.
Make a note of any services about to fail.
Make a note of any leaks.
Identify building services equipment installed.
Assess how well it has been maintained.
Estimate expected lifespan and replacement costs.

We refer to the maintenance guide produced by the UK Chartered Institute of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE), which gives expected life for different types of plant and equipment to estimate the life span of your equipment. We also estimate high level budgets to replace existing plant.
Produce condition assessment report.

Your report has 3 parts:

An executive summary that calls out any high-risk issues.
A summary of the issues we've identified, and our view on the longevity of the plant.
A table that identifies when plant and equipment will require replacement, estimating replacement value.

This identifies your spend as:

Immediate action.
Short term action within one to two years.
Medium term action within two to five years.
Long term action within five to 10 years.

A condition assessment forms the basis for a detailed maintenance plan.

Our fees

Condition assessments

Condition assessments typically start from $5,000 for simple single buildings.

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Maintenance plans

Maintenance plans typically start from $12,500 for simple single buildings.

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Condition assessment FAQs

What building services do you assess?

We assess a wide range of building services including:
Heating and cooling systems.
Supply and extract ventilation systems.
Lighting, emergency lighting and small power systems.
Security and access control systems.
Sprinkler systems.
Hot and cold-water systems.
Foul drainage systems.

Please ask if you’ve a building service system to be reviewed that’s not listed here. Chances are. we’ll be able to help.
What information do you need to start doing a condition assessment?

This does vary a bit but as a minimum we would like copies of the following documents before we come to your site. This helps us to be more efficient on site and to do the best assessment for you:
Current Building Warrant of Fitness (BWOF).
Operating and maintenance manuals for the installed systems.

Record drawings for the installed systems.
Maintenance logs, particularly logs showing repetitive issues or faults, as this can identify areas or systems at risk of failure.