Expert work
Housing and communal services damage evaluation
This procedure allows you to establish compliance (or identify inconsistency) with the technical requirements of already completed construction and installation works. What issues are solved by construction expertise? What is the procedure for conducting construction and technical expertise? What types of studies does construction expertise include? In this article we will answer these questions.
Preparation to examination:
- Introduction to the subject of examination;
- selection and analysis of design documentation;
- work program compilation based on technical specifications received from a customer.
Preliminary (visual) examination:
- continuous visual inspection of building structures and identification of defects and damage by external signs with the necessary measurements and their fixation.
Product market damage evaluation
In legal practice, construction expertise of damage evaluation is most often associated with damage to apartments, offices or private houses caused by the fault of neighbors – flooding, fire, damage to utilities, security systems, windows or doors, as well as damage to the land.
The second most common reason for the court appointing a construction examination is the evaluation of damage caused to the owner by negligent workers of a construction organization during poor-quality construction or repair work.
Evaluation of new housing construction and damage evaluation
In legal practice, construction expertise of damage evaluation is most often associated with damage to apartments, offices or private houses caused by the fault of neighbors – flooding, fire, damage to utilities, security systems, windows or doors, as well as damage to the land.
The second most common reason for the court appointing a construction examination is the evaluation of damage caused to the owner by negligent workers of a construction organization during poor-quality construction or repair work.
Forensic investigations in construction and repairing of buildings and structures
Construction expertise is appointed in cases when during the judicial review of civil, arbitration cases and cases of administrative violations there is a need for special knowledge in the field of design, construction, operation, reconstruction (repair), dismantling and disposal of buildings, constructions and structures. The subject of a construction and technical examination (forensic building examination) is technical, organizational, economic and other issues, the solution of which provides the establishment of actual circumstances in a civil, criminal or administrative case.
Construction and technical expertise can be conducted in following purposes:
- Identification and analysis of defects in building structures and elements.
- Determination of a construction object compliance with the current GOST and Construction Norms and Regulations, examination of the quality of construction.
- Determination of actual volume of repair and construction works.
- Determination of materials volume and cost used for construction, installation and repair work.
- Establishment of the validity of the actual cost of construction specified in acts of construction.
- Establishment of project documentation compliance with construction norms and regulations and, in case of non-compliance, identification of persons responsible for violations.
- Determination of object preparedness for a specific date.
- Determination of volume and cost of eliminating defects, the nature of the deviations from Construction Norms and Regulations.
- Determination of the size and composition of losses due to violation of the terms of a construction contract.
Evaluation of buildings and structures condition
Inspection of buildings and structures is an essential part of a complex work to evaluate their technical condition. During the inspection, actual bearing capacity and serviceability of constructions and foundations must be determined in order to use this data in the development of the reconstruction project. A search should also be made for the best option for a structural and planning solution, a method for the possible strengthening of load-bearing structures, taking into account its manufacturability minimum of labor provision, material resources and time for fulfillment.
