Commercial Building Inspection Report
Commercial Building Inspection Reports (a.k.a Equity Property Condition Reports) are our specialty. When investing in a major complex real estate asset, trust us to inspect the asset and to identify the immediate repairs and deferred maintenance issues.
The key to a quality Commercial Building Inspection is staffing with experience. Our assessors are all highly experienced and many are licensed Professional Engineers or Registered Architects. Our property inspection practice is so large that in most national markets we have specialist for each major property type, in other words, we can staff a garden style apartment building and a high rise office building with inspectors specializing in that property type. Again: experience is everything.
Our Commercial Building Inspections comply with the scope of work specified in ASTM 2026 and includes a comprehensive visual inspection of the building's construction including the following:
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Building structure and foundation
Roof condition and remaining useful life
Building envelope
ADA accessibility
Electrical panels and wiring
Tenant improvements
Pavement systems
Plumbing fixtures and piping
Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems
Elevators and conveyance systems
Landscape, irrigation, site grading & drainage
Our Commercial Building Inspections are done by a single experienced inspector or by a team of inspectors. We often deploy teams of 3 to 6 inspectors. The team will always be captained by our senior building inspector and may include sub-specialists; such as a Structural Engineer, an HVAC specialist, an energy auditor, an ADA Inspector, and/or a Licensed Elevator Inspector. The benefits of sub-specialists are great. For example, our building inspector may have inspected thousands of elevators in his or her career, but without an elevator inspector’s license, he will not be able to open the shaft and inspect beneath the cab.
Regardless of the level of Commercial Building Inspection (Property Condition Report) ordered,our inspector will find:
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Inadequate design
Improper maintenance or worn systems
Equipment nearing the end of its useful life
Building code violations
Poor workmanship
Most of our clients request a standard narrative Property Condition Report. The narrative report discusses each building system and will describe all of the significant concerns or defects that were found during the inspection. Each report will include a table of immediate repairs and a table of replacement reserves over the desired reserve period.
Let us help you avoid the physical risks associated with investing in a commercial property.