015 SME Surveyor Business Stories with Vanessa Hardwick
Vanessa Hardwick is a Chartered Building Surveyor, she runs her own practice near Cardiff, South Wales and focuses on building surveys, project management, party wall surveys and defect analysis mainly in the residential sectors. A mum of three, her career started in local authority specialising in fire safety and project management before moving into residential private practice.
What You Will Learn In This Episode:
- How to deal with dyslexia while writing surveying reports
- The range of projects you can work on within local authorities
- How to approach the responsibility of fire risk assessments
- The importance of engaging local knowledge of a place for successful surveys
- Why there are many project managers among women surveyors
- The key to success in accessibility and adaptation projects
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Resources:
- Federation of Master Builders https://www.fmb.org.uk/
- Nick Isaacs – Party Walls https://www.tanfieldchambers.co.uk/person/nicholas-isaac/
- Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) 2005 https://www.firesafe.org.uk/regulatory-reform-fire-safety-order-2005/