Barclays - whole building risk assessments

Project

A full survey of the entire Barclays retail branch network for the purpose of undertaking fire risk assessments, and health and safety risk assessments.

The project required our building surveyors to undertake risk assessments on more than 2,000 bank premises throughout the UK.

The approach

• Surveyors were selected and trained from the national building surveying team.
• A total of 37 building surveyors from Faithful+Gould’s national network worked on the project.
• The survey project was designed and managed from our Leeds office.

The challenges

• To deliver a major survey programme of risk assessments within 3 years.
• To satisfy our client’s requirements for a ground-breaking approach.
• To produce sufficient information from the surveys in a convenient format in order to aid the procurement of the necessary building work.

Outcome

• The project was completed in 20 months – 16 months ahead of programme - with substantial benefits to our client.
• The surveys have supplied the information necessary to deliver a robust set of risk assessments.
• The surveys and quantified information were used to drive a building works programme.