Building Defects and Surveys (am) Short course

The University of Portsmouth has its own detached property, a former Caretakers ‘Lodge’ that has been turned into a laboratory for the study of building surveys.

On this Building Defects and Surveys short course, you'll get hands-on, with practical exercises that will then be reviewed against the known case history of the building. This will be followed by an explanation of how more advanced surveying techniques might be used by the practicing building surveyor.

Because of the capacity of the Lodge, places on this course are limited to 10.

On this short course you'll cover:

• practical workshop activities
• residential survey reporting
• defect diagnosis
• schedule of condition
• use of equipment
• thermal imaging

You'll be taught by:

Stephen Neale, a Chartered Building Surveyor responsible for construction technology subjects at the University of Portsmouth. He previously ran his own Building Surveying consultancy specialising in defect diagnosis and commercial energy assessment.

Ray Faulkner, the managing director of iRed Ltd a company set up in 2002. iRed specialises in the use of thermography and other advanced surveying techniques.

Bruce Arnold CEng, FIMechE, MCIBSE is a thermographer and a senior trainer at iRed. He is a chartered engineer, and served in the Royal Navy for many years, Bruce now conducts thermographic building surveys on behalf of iRed specialising in BREEAM and investigative projects.