Building Surveyor - Historic Building Advisory Service in London

If you have experience of working with or have an interest in historic buildings and structures then we would like to hear from you. The Historic Building Advisory Service is an established historic building consultancy and chartered surveyor practice working across the UK from our office in a small popular village near Salisbury, with mainline train station from Waterloo and Exeter.

The role involves the delivery of professional advice and assistance for the conservation, repair, alteration and adaptation of all types and sizes of pre-1945 built heritage. This includes producing condition and other surveys, preparing impact statements, as well as designing, specifying and overseeing works from concept stage, through the planning and regulatory process, to completion of a project.

This is a professionally rewarding, sometimes demanding and challenging job, where you will be working with historic buildings and their owners, as part of a small friendly team within a commercial professional environment. You will run and manage your own workload for a wide range of clients, with often eclectic projects, where there is rarely a standard response. For this you will need to be adaptive in your thinking, while following the project’s brief, meeting professional and conservation standards, within time frames and budgets.

To support you in the role and help you develop your skills and abilities, we will provide ongoing professional training and development as may be appropriate.

The job includes:

• Liaison with clients to understand and develop their requirements
• Analysis of historic buildings
• Building pathology
• Various types of building survey
• Report writing
• Design and intervention of new and repair work in to a historic built environment
• Specification preparation
• Developing and handling planning and building regulation applications
• Working closely with other members of the team, clients and contractors
• Contract administration, tendering and oversight of work on site

You should have:

• Experience as a building surveyor or architect in a professional practice
• Working knowledge of building construction – modern and historic
• An understanding of the UK planning legislation and Building Regulations
• Ability to develop good professional working relationships with clients
• RICS, RIBA, IHBC, CIOB, CIfA accredited desirable
• Competent computer skills, Word, Excel, etc.
• Working knowledge of CAD desirable
• Ability to self-manage workload
• Good verbal communication skills
• A current full UK driving licence

Job Type: Full time, Part Time/hybrid considered

Salary: from 45K pa dependant on experience

To Apply: email your CV with supporting letter via the 'Apply now' button

Application Process: all applicants must be eligible to work and live in the UK without restrictions. Evidence of eligibility will be required as part of the application process. HBAS are unable to provide employment sponsorship.

Company Details: Historic Building Advisory Service is a well-established specialist for built heritage consultancy and chartered surveying practice providing independent advice and assistance on all aspects of historic buildings, man-made structures and landscapes dating from before 1945. Our professional service provision includes technical assistance and help, condition and pre-purchase surveys and advice, the preparation of heritage impact assessments and writing detailed specifications for building repairs, conversion and adaptation works. We undertake re-use and redevelopment appraisals, provide design and planning assistance, act as party wall surveyors and undertake archaeological recording and investigation and much more. We apply high standards of conservation practice mixed with practicality and imagination to produce results that ensure the sustainable preservation and enhancement of our heritage. We achieve this by starting from a full and thorough understanding of what is wanted by our clients to go on and develop the results that they want. Our clients range from private individuals, commercial and industrial bodies, farmers and other landowners, local and national government organisations, as well as professional practices. We work all across the UK and sometimes beyond helping to maintain, conserve and where possible enhance the built historic environment.

Visit our website to see more of what we do.