Produced by the SCSI Building Surveying Professional Group Committee, this guidance has been developed to provide a defined structure to building inspections and reporting of information to clients. Given the complexities of different property categories requiring different types of reporting, this guidance note offers surveyors useful information to provide appropriate recommendations to their clients.

This guidance note covers condition-based residential surveys of all types. It does not include any aspect of valuation or property marketing issues: its primary purpose is to consider the property as a physical asset.

The guidance note aims to describe the:

• Different types of service to which this document applies;
• Nature of the pre-inspection preparation, activities and research required;
• Inspection process associated with each type of service;
• Report writing methodology;
• Post report client liaison; and
• Project closure activities.

The document concisely considers each objective in turn.

It provides sufficient information to establish the  nature and extent of each type of service and avoids unnecessary detail.

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