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SURVEYING HOTELS THAT NEVER CLOSE: HOW TO MEASURE AN OCCUPIED HOTEL BEFORE A REFURBISHMENT
A hotel cannot shut so it can be measured. This article sets out how an occupied hotel survey is planned around guests, what to ask for room by room, and what it costs.
BEFORE THE NEW SHED GOES UP: THE SURVEYS A WAREHOUSE OR LOGISTICS SITE EXPANSION NEEDS FIRST
Extending a warehouse, adding loading bays or resurfacing a yard looks simple on a site plan. On the ground, levels, drainage and buried services decide what can be built and what it costs, so a warehouse extension survey has to come before the design.
SURVEYING STADIUMS AND LEISURE CENTRES WHILE THEY STAY OPEN: HOW TO PLAN A SURVEY AROUND MATCH DAYS AND OPENING HOURS
A football club can’t move a fixture and a leisure centre can’t turn swimmers away so a surveyor can measure. This guide sets out how a sports venue survey is planned around the venue’s calendar, what to capture in each window, and what it costs.
RETAIL FIT-OUTS: WHY A MEASURED SURVEY PROTECTS THE PROGRAMME
A shop fit-out runs to an opening date that rarely moves. A retail fit-out survey gives the designer and the shopfitter one set of measured drawings of the unit as it really is, so the joinery fits the first time it arrives on site.
TIGHT SITES, TOUGH QUESTIONS: CHOOSING A TOPOGRAPHICAL SURVEY FOR INFILL AND REDEVELOPMENT
Small infill plots and complex redevelopment sites leave very little room for error. Before you commission an infill topographical survey, or one for a redevelopment, it is worth knowing what these sites need and which questions sort a good survey from a cheap one.
ONE MODEL, EVERY TEAM: HOW A 3D BUILDING MODEL KEEPS A REFURBISHMENT COORDINATED
On a refurbishment, the architect, the structural engineer and the services engineer all design around a building that already exists. A 3D building model gives them one measured version of it to work from, so their designs fit each other and the building.
MAKING CAMPUSES WORK HARDER: WHY A UNIVERSITY ESTATE SURVEY COMES FIRST
University estates are being asked to do more with the buildings they already have. Before anyone can decide how a campus should work harder, a university estate survey has to show how much space there really is and how it is laid out.
KEEP THE FRAME, CHANGE THE BUILDING: INSIDE LONDON’S OFFICE RETROFIT BOOM
Three of London’s best-known office buildings are being kept and reworked rather than knocked down. On every one of them, the design starts from the building that is already there, which makes the office retrofit survey the first piece of work that has to be right.
HOW MUCH DOES A SURVEY COST? UK SURVEY PRICES FOR 2026
Spatial Dimensions publishes its survey prices. This guide sets out the published prices in one place, explains what moves a price up or down, and is honest about what a starting price does not cover. In short: In the UK, a measured building survey from Spatial Dimensions starts at £850 and most fall between £1,500 […]
HOW TO CHOOSE A UK MEASURED BUILDING AND TOPOGRAPHICAL SURVEY PROVIDER
An eleven-point checklist for architects and project managers choosing a UK measured building and topographical survey provider, with published prices and Spatial Dimensions’ answer to each criterion.