Stock Condition – Best Practices
Course Details
(1 Day / Virtual) – C211 – £1,200 + VAT per course
- 1- 4 participants (maximum 10)
- Additional participants above four would only be charged at the discounted price of @ £250 + VAT per participant
Who’s it For?
This course is aimed at social housing providers, specifically asset, property, estates and technical managers, and those with the responsibility for commissioning new stock condition surveys of their stock. The course explores the main considerations when contemplating commissioning new surveys, equipping you with a strong approach, to provide the best outcomes for your organisation.
Develop and setup survey strategy:
- Analyse existing stock & data hierarchy set up
- Age profiling
- Tenure and User group profiling
- 100% data population
- Use of cloning
- Survey lifecycle
- Validate existing data desktop and on-site
Surveying delivery model:
- Internal Surveyors
- External Surveyors
- Combined
- Component Installation dates
- Servicing & Inspection records
Develop survey design & software:
- Planned component replacement
- Planned repairs
- DHS
- HHSRS
- RdSAP
- Custom questions
- Limitations of survey
- Software setup including walk order
- Component costs and lifecycles
- Hardware
Procurement :
- Procurement route
- Contract specification & survey brief
- Contractor experience & competencies
- Surveyor qualifications and experience
- Scope of surveys
- Project timescale
- Budget
Contractor selection & appointment:
- Evaluation criteria
- Interview
- References
- Contract
- Pilot project
Project pre-start setup:
- Surveyor selection
- Surveyor induction
- Briefing manual
- Onsite training
- Surveyor variability
- Access arrangements
- Pilot
Communication strategy:
- Internal
- External
- Surveyors
Quality assurance:
- Post survey desktop validation
- On-site validation using third party surveyors
Project management:
- Points of contact
- Day to day management
- Regular contractor meetings
- Interim payments
- Post contract review
