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A Building Systems Review is a fixed-fee, on-site quality check of the electrical, access and control systems already in your building – a plain-English report on what’s unsafe, what’s wasting money, and what’s just working fine.
Anyone can make a system work. Fewer contractors ask whether it’s safe when nobody’s watching, whether it’s wasting power in an empty building, or whether it depends on someone remembering to do something every single day. We visit your premises and check the installed systems against three questions: is it safe, is it efficient, and does it need a person to remember it?
The answers matter beyond the day of the visit. A fault found in a review is a line item on a report; the same fault found by an incident is an injury, an insurance claim, or a building that can’t open. The review exists to move problems from the second category into the first – and to leave you with a dated, written record that the systems were professionally checked.
If an incident is ever investigated, the questions start with what you knew and what you did about it. A dated report from an independent engineer, with the findings acted on, is documentary evidence of due diligence – the kind insurers, landlords and the HSE ask to see. Silence on the same question is much harder to defend.
Most failures announce themselves quietly first – a gate safety edge that no longer stops the leaf, a thermostat drifting toward scalding, a barrier arm dropping faster than it should. The review finds those early warnings while they’re still cheap to put right, and recommends the added protections – sensors, interlocks, safeguards – that put an extra layer between a fault and a person.
Systems that misbehave wear on the people who use them every day – gates that need a second badge press, lighting that leaves corners of the car park dark, doors that staff have learned to prop open because the reader is unreliable. Fixing those raises the daily experience for everyone on site – and closes the workarounds that quietly undo your security.
Lighting, heating and air conditioning running to a timer nobody has revisited since installation is money spent on nobody. The report prices each efficiency recommendation individually, so you can see which ones pay for themselves fastest.
A component that fails without warning gets replaced at emergency rates, on whatever day it chooses. Knowing what’s ageing lets you schedule the work in normal hours, compare quotes, and spread the cost across a maintenance budget instead of absorbing it as a crisis.
Taking on a new unit, renewing a lease, or inheriting a building from a previous occupier? The review gives you an independent picture of what you’re actually taking on – and a clear record of the systems’ condition at the point you took responsibility for them.
Power, lighting, access control, CCTV, automated gates and barriers, plus the electrical and control side of heating and hot water – immersion heaters, electric boilers, thermostats and time controls.
Gas appliances and gas safety, structural or fabric condition, plumbing, and any wet heating system beyond its electrical controls. We’ll tell you plainly if something needs a different specialist.
This is not an EICR. A Building Systems Review is a quality and efficiency check, not a periodic Electrical Installation Condition Report, and it doesn’t replace one. If you need a formal EICR for landlord, insurance or compliance purposes, call us and we can arrange one alongside the review.
Every review ends in a comprehensive written report. It sets out exactly what was checked, system by system – power, lighting, access control, CCTV, gates and barriers, heating controls – and what we found in each, written in plain English rather than trade shorthand.
Safety findings come first, ranked by urgency, so the things that could hurt someone are impossible to miss. Efficiency recommendations follow, each one explaining what it would change and why it earns its place. Every recommendation is priced individually, with no obligation to have us carry out the work – the report is yours to act on however suits you.
The timer nobody has revisited. An office running lighting and air conditioning to a fixed schedule regardless of whether anyone’s in the building. Adding occupancy-linked controls to both is a typical recommendation – and your report uses your own meter data and run hours, so the saving we quote is specific to your building.
The safety device that was never put back. An automated gate whose safety edge was disconnected during an earlier repair and never reconnected. The gate works perfectly every day, so nobody looks – until it closes on something that matters. Reinstating and force-testing it is a small job once it’s found; finding it is what the visit is for.
We walk the premises with you and inspect each system in place, typically two to four hours depending on size.
Safety findings and efficiency recommendations in plain English, each with a costed option, within a few working days.
Use your existing contractor, do it yourself, or have us carry it out. The report is yours either way.
Every review is individually priced as a fixed fee, confirmed before we attend based on the size of your premises and the number of systems in place.
Thank you. We’ve received your systems review request and it’s with our team.
We’ll be in touch within 2 working days to confirm a date. If it’s urgent, call 0330 043 0143.
Back to HomepageEvery review is individually priced, as a fixed fee based on the size of the premises and the number of systems to be reviewed – agreed before we attend, so there are no surprises.
Most sites take two to four hours on site, depending on size. Larger or multi-building sites may need a full day. Your written report follows within a few working days.
No. The report is yours to do as you like with – take it to your existing contractor, do the simple items in-house, or have us carry it out.
Yes – that’s most of what we do. We’re assessing the outcome, not scoring anyone’s workmanship.
No. It’s a broader quality and efficiency check across electrical, access and control systems, and it doesn’t replace a periodic EICR where one is required. We can arrange both together if needed.
Every two to three years for most premises, or whenever occupancy changes significantly – a new tenant, a refit, or a shift in operating hours.
It can. The report is a dated, written record that your systems were independently checked, with each finding set out and priced – evidence of the reasonable steps you took, which is what insurers and investigators look for. What it can’t do is guarantee an outcome – that depends on the facts of the incident and on the findings having been acted on.