TÜV SÜD Ltd Dunbar Boardman joins SFHA as sector associate
TÜV SÜD Ltd Dunbar Boardman has become an SFHA sector associate.
By TÜV SÜD Ltd Dunbar Boardman.
TÜV SÜD Ltd Dunbar Boardman is Europe’s leading independent lift consultancy. We provide a complete range of lift services, tailored to your individual requirements. We have a dedicated team of lift consultants, based in Scotland, available to support your needs.
As a client-focused business, we are committed to delivering quality and cost-effective services, which clients trust and value. You can be assured of our independence and have complete confidence that our advice is appropriate and impartial.
Benefits of having a consultant:
- reduces the cost of the maintenance by ensuring that any works offer best value to the client and are necessary
- able to adjudicate in contractor and client differences
- assists in and control annual expenditure
- provides budgets and life expectancy of the equipment
- reduces client administration time
- improves operational standards and reduces down-time
- provides advice on health and safety requirements, codes and practices
- provides technical and logistical problem solving
- provides advice on statutory inspections
- assists with project planning
- provides technical reviews of existing lifts
Typical services
Condition surveys and assessments
Our reports can provide invaluable information about the life expectancy, condition of key components, and options available for improvements, allowing you to make informed decisions about the most suitable solution to suit your building needs and budget.
Many buildings have equipment that fails to meet current standards and could pose a risk to the safety of users, including in the event of a fire. Our expertise in fire fighting and evacuation equipment allows us to fully assess the state of essential lift equipment and provide advice and risk assessments to ensure compliance with fire and evacuation and safety plans when considering improvements in buildings.
Maintenance management
We offer a range of services that can provide you with as much support as you need, allowing you to fulfil your compliance goals with certainty and confidence. We can help you develop maintenance specifications and contract documents that put you in the driving seat and give you complete control over service delivery and supplier performance. We can assist with the management of budgets to ensure financial decisions can be made with confidence. We can help review quotations and technical proposals to ensure validity and value for money. Statutory compliance can only be demonstrated by having the necessary processes in place to manage statutory reports (i.e. LOLER thorough examinations), defects and safety recommendations. At TÜV SÜD Dunbar Boardman, we have a team of experts and management systems that ensure you don’t fail to meet your statutory obligations.
Tendering and project support
We can help you to simplify the decision-making process and ensure that equipment is specified correctly to meet the performance demands of your building. Our specification documents stipulates precise requirements for testing and commissioning to ensure the equipment is fully compliant prior to the final handover.
Our impartial approach to the tendering and procurement process ensures that bids are evaluated not just on cost but on the grounds of technical compliance and suitability for each individual project ensuring best value.
We have the competence and skills to help and guide you in the safe delivery of lift projects. We can fulfil the duties of Principal Designer (CDM Regulations 2015) to ensure your project is managed from inception to completion where we will ensure the health and safety file is properly compiled for use in any future projects.
Our consultants have the experience of working within existing residential buildings and can provide a full service from project management or just technical support to suit your projects requirements, resolving issues to keep the works on programme.