Homes & Houses Services
Thinking Buildings deliver exciting and beautiful homes and houses for our clients. We offer a wide range of services to suit our client’s requirements to deliver the very highest quality projects; our services can be broadly categorised as follows:
• Architecture
• Masterplanning
• Interior Design
• Landscape & Garden Design
• Project Management
• Other Consultancy
The following services are provided by Thinking Buildings or by our reliable and trusted supply chain of consultants:
RIBA 0-1 Briefing & Site Assessment
- Brief Taking & developing the client requirements
- Site Analysis & Site Development Potential
- Building analysis – Opportunities to reuse and retrofit existing buildings
- Financial & Cost Viability Assessments
- Arranging surveys of sites and/or buildings
- Appointing any other specialists
RIBA 2 Concept Design
- Feasibility Studies
Master-planning studies - Concept Design Proposals
- Low Energy Design
- Landscape & Garden Design
- Sustainability & Energy Assessments
- Heritage Impact Assessments
- Transport Assessment
- Pre-planning Advice consultation & applications
- Budget Costs
RIBA 3 Design Development
- Architectural Building Design
- Interior Design
- Landscape & Garden Design
- Planning drawings
- Design & Access Statement for planning applications
- Highways Impact Assessment reports for planning applications
- Submission of Planning Applications
- Listed Building Applications
- Heritage Impact Assessment Reports for planning applications
- 3D Building modelling, including 3D visualisations & animations
- Integrating information from other consultants, including ecology, flood risk etc.
- Detailed Costs Analysis and Reports
RIBA 4 Technical Design
- Technical drawings for construction
Discharging Planning conditions prior to start on site - Building Regulations drawings
- Building Regulations Applications & Compliance
- Low energy and sustainability assessment
- Passivhaus Accreditation
- Advice on the procurement route & Build methods/systems
- Coordination and project management of other consultants (Civil, structural, mechanical and electrical engineers, landscape etc.)
- Pre-construction Health & Safety Plan (a legal requirement)
- Cost report or Bill of Quantities
- Tender Documentation
- Managing Contractor Tendering
- Tender reporting & Contractor Selection
RIBA 5-6 Construction Phase
- Preparing the building contract
- Contract administration & management of the Building Contract
- Contractor’s Construction Phase Health & Safety Plan review
- Site Visits & Quality control
- Responding to contractor queries
- Project management for kitchens, bathrooms etc. which are often chosen by the client for the contractor to install
- Practical Completion inspection and Certification
- Post-completion support during the defects period (usually 12 months)
- Post Occupancy Assessment & building user feedback
