FA Surveyors

FA Surveyors was established in 2017 in response to continued positive feedback from clients served. It is this feedback together with the professional pride and satisfaction taken in achieving consistently good results for our clients that will remain the core aim of the business day to day.

My working career started as a software Engineer, back in 1984. I worked for several large IT companies e.g. Logica space and defence, BAE Systems, Thomson Marconi Sonar and Racal Avionics. My work involved designing, coding and testing real time safety critical fly-by-wire flight control Software for military aircrafts such as AMX, Tornado, Eurofighter; Merlin, Lynx and Sea King Helicopters. My most auspicious project was working as a team leader on the Cassini/Huygens project for ESA and NASA. Cassini was a spacecraft built by NASA and Huygens was a probe built by ESA which was transported to Saturn by Cassini and designed to land on Titan. Launch date was 1997 and rendezvous with Saturn was in 2004. My claim to fame is there is a space probe sitting on the surface of Titan right now with my code on it.

Having had a successful and rewarding career as a software engineer for 20 years, I felt like a change and a new challenge. In 2003 I left my software engineering career behind me and in 2004 achieved an MSc in building surveying and started a new career as a Building Surveyor. I worked for Lawson Queay Chartered surveyors, a renowned and successful company based in the south east. During my time with them I became chartered and honed my skills and experience in many aspects of building surveying, i.e. as a Contract Administrator, Employer’s Agent, CDM Principal Designer. I worked on various refurbishments and new build projects for dozens of Housing Associations and Local Authorities in the south east and was Involved with Designing, Specifications, Employers Requirements, Tendering, Health & Safety, Building inspections, Building pathology, Building surveys, Measurement surveys, Condition surveys, Feasibility reports, Party walls etc.

In 2017 I decided the industry was missing good, experienced, dedicated surveyors who sincerely cared about the service they provided and the needed to be conscientious, responsive and flexible and empathetic when dealing with clients.

As a small business FA surveyors care about your project as much as you do, and the advice you will get will always be qualitative and practical, all with a personal touch. We take professional pride and satisfaction in achieving consistently good results for my clients that will remain the core aim of the business and this is evidenced in our Google reviews.

At work I am passionate about the built environment, however outside work my passion lies in the natural environment. I am a member of several local wildlife groups, a group scout leader and a STEM ambassador. My interest and knowledge of the natural environment allows FA Surveyors to provide additional information in our tailored L3 reports, i.e. Japanese knotweed, pests etc; something which other surveying companies cannot match.

I have good all round knowledge of not only the built environment but also the natural environment. I can therefore put a lot more useful information in my surveys which other surveyors cannot match. I go over and above to ensure client satisfaction and my Google reviews are a testimony to my efforts.

I care about the environment and can confidently say my office is 98% paperless.

I will be happy to look at photographs free of charge and offer my professional impartial opinion. Sometimes a photograph is all that is needed to dispel any concerns you may have.

All government guidelines are followed: i.e. checking before a survey if anyone has shown any Covid symptoms, mask wearing, using sanitizer gel before and after surveys, asking clients to open all windows before a survey, asking them to stay in one room during the survey etc.