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Date Posted: 15:16:33 03/14/03 Fri
Author: 何焯華條賓周+歡迎炸佢:justinem@crowninsurance.com.au
Subject: 淨屌何焯華條仆街呢+歡迎炸佢:justinem@crowninsurance.com.au

Underpinning a London terrace house

History
Your client, a major Housing Association, has approached you to assist them in negotiating an insurance claim and letting a contract to carry out major repairs to an end-of-terrace house in North London.

The Housing Association has a Head Lease with the London Borough of Camden who are the freeholders. This is a Short Life property. The lease states that the Housing Association are responible for repair to the external fabric of the building up to 10,000pounds beyond that they should notify the Local Authority as to whether they are able to proceed with work.

Objectives
Your clients has 'blanket' building insurance policy and wishes to make a claim because the building has subsided due to what appears to be damage by tree roots. There is a large London plane tree on the pavement near the cover of the property. The tree has not been pollarded for some time and is overgrown.

Procedure
Write a report of not more than 1,500 words giving the information existing on site and clearly set out the procedures you intend to follow, assuming dates and events are current and the potential claim has only just been reported by one of the tenants.

The building is a two-storey end-of-terrace Victorian dwelling constructed circa 1890. There is a small garden and yard at the front, side and back. The construction was London stock brick load bearing walls with stone facings and lintels. The house has been converted into two flats and the tenant in the upper flat is not an Assured Shorthold tenant but possibily a "Bruton" tenant and refuses to move.

No major repairs have been carried out to the exterior of the building for a number of years and there is considerable disrepair. The windows are double hung timber sash and the roof which appears to be suffering from roof spread is covered in natural slate,

The works proposed must include a structural survey report as there is a gap appearing at the party wall and the building is rotating away from the wall.

Requirements
(a)Structural Survey Report

(b)Soil investigation-site plan will have four bore-hole locations

(c)Short Specification and cost Plan to cover the proposed works for underpinning the existing foundations and repairing the brickwork and brick window surrounds and arches

(d)Drawing at 1-50 scale to show the general arrangement of the building plans and elevations. Details at 1-20 for the underpinning and repairs to brickwork.

(e)Tender documents to obtain prices for insurance purposes

(f)Write to insurer's loss adjusters and set out how the claim should be settled and write to the successful tenderer letting the contract; giving him the date for commencement of the works and when he will have vacant possession of the site.

(g)Finally write to your client explaining what you have done and the action you have carried out on his behalf.

Learning Outcomes
Learning aims are that the students will be familarise themselves with current legistaion relating to the Housing Act 1989, the Building Regulations, Party Wall Act, current forms of Building Contract and the engineering and design of underpinning and specialist repair of brickwork for an inner city building. At the same time the student will become aware of the necessary to have Building Insurance and in the event of a claim the procedure to follow and how to advise clients.

The assignment should be carried out in groups of not more than four or less than three students, each member bearing a responsibility for a particular part of the assignment. A team/job diary should be kept.

You have four weeks for this assignment-hand-in date is 24March 2003.

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