Case Studies

Pepper Assets Panel

TEAM

Building Surveying Team

Sector

Residential

Commercial

Services Provided

Building Surveying and Consultancy Services

Overview of service

Asset management company Pepper manages a wide range of assets, including residential home loans, commercial loans, equipment finance and consumer finance on behalf of its clients.

Pepper Asset Services commissioned the ORS Building Surveying Team to provide various building surveying services for the Permanent TSB (PTSB) portfolio, consisting of approximately 1,400 properties. Most properties in this portfolio are distressed assets.

The role of the ORS team was to conduct planning and building regulation compliance checks, building condition surveys and PRA mapping. For the building condition surveys, the scope included inspecting and reporting on suspected significant issues like pyrite, mica, subsidence, and cracking. The reporting requirements included preparing recommendations for remedial works with an associated budget cost plan.

For the PRA mapping element of the work, ORS provided ground truth surveys on all properties mapped.

Project challenges

Stakeholder engagement

The main challenges with the project were the vast number of properties in the portfolio spread across the country, monitoring the status of each, and managing communication with the various stakeholders. To keep track of individual properties, the ORS team created a ‘master list’ database with all the pertinent information, updated weekly as the project progressed. This list contained the client’s property ID and a unique ORS property ID number.

As with all projects, effective communication was vital with the survey team and other agents involved in the properties. For example, each individual property liaison with the client, a keyholder and the legal advisor at a minimum.

For PRA mapping, ORS dealt directly with the legal advisors. The ORS Building Surveying Team often takes this approach. It eliminates unnecessary technical communications through the client and permits the surveyors and the solicitors to build a strong working relationship.

Leaders

Key Contacts

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Darren Holmes

Director
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Damian Kenny

Director
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Deirdre McShane

Associate Director

Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council

ORS was appointed by Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council (DLR CoCo) to deliver a large-scale Building Surveying Inspections programme across the council’s rented accommodation portfolio.

Building Surveying

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Iarnród Éireann/Irish Rail Asset Surveys

ORS was engaged by Iarnród Éireann / Irish Rail to deliver a comprehensive programme of structural and facilities surveys, integral to their 5-year rolling asset management strategy.

Building Surveying

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Lidl Structural Condition Surveys

ORS has been appointed to deliver structural condition surveys for Lidl under a new contract, following our previous nationwide engagement.

Building Surveying

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Transforming Precision: Measured Building Survey with BLK360 3D Laser Scanner

Building Surveying

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Detailed Services for Irish Rail

Irish Rail commissioned ORS to undertake detailed surveys of 111 IÉ occupied residential properties that consisted of level crossing cottages and station houses.

Building Surveying

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Tusla’s Building Condition Surveys

Tusla commissioned ORS to carry out building condition surveys across all their properties in Dublin North-East and Dublin Mid-Leinster Regions.

Building Surveying

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Metrolink

TII appointed ORS to undertake condition assessments of numerous properties in Dublin City Centre that coincide with the proposed route for the MetroLink project.

Building Surveying

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HSE Estates

HSE Estates appointed the ORS building surveying team to create as-built floor plan drawings and undertake area measurements for various properties across Ireland.

Building Surveying

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LIDL Condition Surveys

ORS was appointed by Lidl to conduct stock condition surveys on over 100 stores across Ireland.

Building Surveying

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Pepper Assets Panel

Pepper Asset Services commissioned ORS to deliver building surveying services for PTSB’s portfolio of approximately 1,400 properties.

Building Surveying

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Stakeholder engagement

Leaders

Key Contacts

Darren Holmes

Damian Kenny

Deirdre McShane

Related Projects

Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council

Iarnród Éireann/Irish Rail Asset Surveys

Lidl Structural Condition Surveys

Transforming Precision: Measured Building Survey with BLK360 3D Laser Scanner

Detailed Services for Irish Rail

Tusla’s Building Condition Surveys

Metrolink

HSE Estates

LIDL Condition Surveys

Pepper Assets Panel

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