Building Permits: Building Surveyors: Building Surveying

HENDRY building surveyors provide a comprehensive suite of building surveying control services which includes the issuing of building permits, BCA Audits, essential safety measures reports, occupancy permits and various other services. HENDRY building surveyors nominated to assist our clients, have the necessary expertise to professionally represent your interests and issue the necessary building permits.

Building Audits

HENDRY building surveyors have the experience to perform BCA Audits, Due Diligence Audits, Disability Access Audits, Aged Care Audits, Fire Safety Audits, Building Sub-division Audits, Dangerous Goods Audits and Essential Safety Measures Audits for clients, a number of BCA Audits lead to the issuing of building permits.

Since the Building Code of Australia (BCA) does not apply to buildings retrospectively and is continually being revised and improved, building surveyors will advise that most buildings in Victoria do not comply with the current BCA or building permits conditions. Therefore a building owner wishing to sell, or a prospective purchaser of a building, may need to know from our building surveyors whether the building complies with the current BCA in such areas as fire safety provisions, health and amenity provisions, access for disabled, services compliance, consequences of building permits and services life expectancy. HENDRY building surveyors can provide building owners or prospective building purchasers with a BCA Audit on the compliance status of a building, so that informed decisions can be made in the building permits process if required.

Fire Safety Engineering & Alternative Solutions

Our building surveyors advise that the deemed to satisfy provisions of the Building Code of Australia can often impose unnecessary building costs in building permits as a result of conservative provisions. The BCA is however, a performance-based code allowing alternative solutions to be assessed by building surveyors when issuing building permits. Its performance requirements can be used by our building surveyors in order to achieve an alternative solution to prescriptive specified standards. Performance requirements provide the building surveyors with the criteria to ensure that regulatory objectives are achieved, and allow for innovative, alternative solutions, and safe and cost effective building designs to be presented for various building permits. HENDRY building surveyors have the qualifications and experience necessary to assess fire safety engineering performance-based alternative solutions. Our building surveyors are able to assist you with your building permits requirements.