Stage 05 · How we work
Work checked by the people accountable for it
An inspection is not the moment the work is judged for the first time. It is the moment a building shows what has already been checked.
Stage 05 · How we work
An inspection is not the moment the work is judged for the first time. It is the moment a building shows what has already been checked.
By the time an inspection happens the work is closed up. What can still be shown is what was recorded while it was open, which is why this stage begins long before anyone is invited to look.
Our own checks run while the work is open, because most of what an inspection is interested in stops being visible once the wall is closed. Reinforcement, cover, anchorage, flashing and the back of a joint are recorded when they can still be seen.
The condition before, the work carried out and the locations, kept as the job runs rather than reconstructed afterwards.
The inspection may need the access still standing. It is programmed to be there.
Anything raised is corrected and re presented rather than carried.
Inspections tied to the permit and the filed work.
Where the work is in the street or the sidewalk.
On a facade cycle the critical examination is made by a Qualified Exterior Wall Inspector, who files the technical report with the Department of Buildings as SAFE, SWARMP or UNSAFE. That determination is theirs, not ours - our part is that the repair is complete and can be examined.
An UNSAFE condition requires repair within one year of the examination. A SWARMP condition is safe at the time of inspection but has to be corrected before the next cycle - and a SWARMP left uncorrected has to be reported as UNSAFE at the following report. Getting a repair genuinely finished and examinable is what stops a condition rolling forward.
No. The critical examination under FISP is made by a Qualified Exterior Wall Inspector and filed by them. We carry out the repair and present it so it can be examined.
It is corrected and re presented. Carrying an open item into close-out is how a record stays open.
SWARMP is safe at the time of inspection but needs repair before the next cycle. UNSAFE is hazardous and requires repair within one year of the examination. A SWARMP condition that is not corrected must be reported UNSAFE at the next cycle.
Tell us where the job is and what has been filed, and we will tell you what has to be documented and still visible when it is examined.