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Building Surveying - Building Approvals

Building Approvals and Building Approval Certificates, BCA audits, Due Diligence reports, Fire Safety Upgrades, Authority negotiations, BCA Alternative Solutions, and Aged Care Audits are just some of the services provided by the HENDRY Building Surveying Consultants.

Having introduced and pioneered private certification and private building approval systems in Australia in 1988, the HENDRY consultancy companies have extensive building surveying and essential safety measure experience in all sectors of the building and property industries.

HENDRY provides consultancy services in the evaluation of designs (building certifier), auditing properties, buildings and the issuing of compliance reports in support of applications for building approval and (retrospective approval) Building Approval Certificates throughout Western Australia.

Fire Safety Engineering & Alternative Solutions

The deemed to satisfy requirements of the Building Code of Australia can often impose unnecessary building costs as a result of conservative provisions. The BCA is however, a performance-based code and its performance requirements can be used in order to achieve an acceptable alternative to prescriptive specified standards. The performance provisions provide the criteria to ensure that regulatory objectives are achieved, and to allow for alternative innovative, safe and cost effective building designs to be presented.

BCA Audits

Since the BCA does not apply to buildings retrospectively and is being continually being revised and improved, numerous buildings in South Australia do not comply with the current Building Code of Australia. A building owner wishing to sell, or a prospective purchaser of a building, may need to know whether the building complies with the BCA in such areas as fire safety provisions, health and amenity provisions, access for disabled, services compliance and services life expectancy. HENDRY building surveyors can provide building owners or prospective building purchasers with an accurate assessment of the compliance status of a building, so that informed decisions can be made.