Condition survey data validation.
Formed in 2008, GreenSquare is a major provider of housing, regeneration, care and support and commercial services across Wiltshire, Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire.
Ridge undertook a desk-top review and physical reinspection of dwellings to determine the accuracy and completeness of the stock condition survey data held, as well as benchmarking and analysis of revenue desk-top costs.
The project has included:
- Initial meetings to fully scope the review process and to facilitate the transfer of relevant data
- Review the general structure of the survey form and adequacy of items collected
- Review of the survey form design
- Review of the schedule of rates
- Review of the lifecycles
- Review of the address list (and the relationship between flats and blocks)
- An analytical review of the extracted stock condition data, looking for gaps, trends, likely erroneous data
- Advice on expected renewal costs for the client’s 26 key elements
- Review of the key elements to provide a commentary in respect of their suitability
- Review of the data collection approach for HHSRS (and staff training for HHSRS)
- Review of the data collection approach for RdSAP
- An overview of the 30-year business planning input cost tables and benchmarking
- Extraction of data and physical reinspections to enable a direct comparison of the data held with Ridge suggested results
- Commentary in respect of the client’s approach to business plan risks, such as high-rise and non-traditional stock and complex M&E
- Provision of a report summarising findings and recommendation
- Meetings to review and present the findings to stakeholders
