Graham + Sibbald toasts 1st birthday of Manchester office

Graham + Sibbald, the independent Scottish property specialist, is experiencing strong growth at the Manchester office it opened at the beginning of 2019. Representing Graham + Sibbald’s second office opening outside Scotland, with the firm having had a London office for a number of years, the Manchester office has built its client list over the…

Neil MacFarlane

Neil MacFarlane

Partner – UK Head of Technical Services Neil is a Chartered Building Surveyor with over 30 years’ experience in private practice. He studied Building Surveying at Glasgow College of Building + Printing and started working with Graham + Sibbald in 1999 where he became an Associate in 2007, before being promoted to Partner in 2013….

Mark Esslemont

Mark Esslemont

Director Mark heads the Building Surveying team within our Inverness office and is a Chartered Building Surveyor of over 25 years’ experience. In 1993, he graduated with a Degree in Building Surveying from Glasgow Caledonian University and started his professional career in Edinburgh in the same year. Mark gained experience working for a number of…

Paul Docherty

Paul Docherty

Partner Paul is a Chartered Building Surveyor with over 30 years’ experience dealing with property matters throughout the UK. He studied at Glasgow College of Building + Printing between 1984-1988, graduating in the summer of that latter year and immediately commencing employment with Graham + Sibbald where he has remained, gaining promotion to Associate Partner…

Tameside, Greater Manchester

Tameside, Greater Manchester

Graham + Sibbald were instructed to undertake condition surveys of 25 primary schools to identify maintenance requirements over a 5-year period. The purpose of collecting building condition information was to improve the management of school building stock and in particular: Identify backlog maintenance items Assign a description of the condition and a priority grading to…

Nationwide Building Society, Wigan

Nationwide Building Society, Wigan

Initially, Graham + Sibbald were instructed to undertake a defect analysis inspection following a report of leaning chimneys. The inspection found the chimneys had suffered a sulphate attack and were in need of urgent remedial attention. Additionally, a number of external fabric repairs were also noted, which included flat roof defects, pitched roof defects and…

Scottish Residential Portfolio

Scottish Residential Portfolio

Following a standard tender process, Graham + Sibbald were instructed by Charles White Limited to carry out Reinstatement Cost Assessment (RCA) reports for a large portfolio of residential developments. In the tendering stage, our team issued a template and detailed the structure of how they would carry out the RCA surveys to ensure that they…