Matthew Vesey

BSc Building Surveying, Thames Polytechnic MRICS

Partner

Matthew Vesey has over 20 years experience as a building surveyor and was elected as a Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in 1993. He has experience in the full range of building surveying activities, providing focussed advice for clients in the commercial, education and residential sectors.

His experience encompasses due diligence surveys of buildings as diverse as 30 St Mary Axe (the Gherkin) and the Kamppi retail complex in Helsinki. His project experience includes extensive work on Grade 1 and 2 Listed buildings, project management of education new build and refurbishments and project monitoring of distribution warehouse schemes in the UK and retail property in the Nordics.

In addition to survey and project work, Matthew has extensive dilapidations experience including strategic advice for both occupiers and building owners.

Matthew has also worked with managed estates such as the Bedford Estates, formulating service charge strategies and overseeing repairs and maintenance programmes.

Project experience:

Retail and Commercial Properties in the Nordics
Pre acquisition due diligence building condition surveys of retail complexes in Finland, industrial/warehouse buildings in Denmark, Sweden and Finland and offices in Sweden.

Hotels
Building condition surveys and repair programmes for Alternative Hotel Group properties.

High Profile Office Buildings
Pre acquisition due diligence building condition surveys of significant buildings including 30 St Mary Axe (The Gherkin), the Devonshire Square Estate and CAA House.

Industrial and Business Parks
Pre acquisition due diligence building condition surveys, including Poyle 14 Heathrow, Croxley Park Watford and the Tesco Distribution warehouse West Thurrock.

Rail/Public Sector
Accessibility feasibility surveys for Great Eastern Railway station, Liverpool Street to Southend Victoria. Condition surveys and maintenance plans for British Transport Police stations, Eastern region.

Project Monitoring
Fund monitoring surveyor for new warehouse and office schemes. Purchaser's monitoring surveyor for new retail complex in Lappeenranta, eastern Finland.

Listed Buildings
Project management of reconstruction works to fire damaged Grade 1 Listed mixed use scheme in Guildford.  Design and project management for conversion and extension of a Grade 2 Listed stable block to create a wedding and function venue, in Finchingfield, Essex.  Refurbishment and conversion of Grade 1 and 2 Listed buildings, Bloomsbury.

Education and Healthcare
Employer’s Agent for various new building projects including £5 million new teaching block at SEEVIC College, Benfleet, Essex.  Numerous refurbishment and repair projects for primary and secondary schools.  Various ward refurbishments and roofing projects within acute hospital campuses.

Commercial
Various office refurbishment schemes within central London.

Background & Other Interests:

Watts Group Plc – Associate – Commercial Building Surveying
Pre acquisition and vendor’s due diligence building condition surveys of commercial and hotel premises.

Design and contract administration for office and mixed use schemes.

Project monitoring.

Dilapidations.

Strutt & Parker – Associate and Head of East Anglia Building Surveying and Architectural Department
Building surveys for commercial and residential properties.

Design and contract administration for commercial, schools and residential extension and refurbishment projects.

Ingleton Wood – Associate
Pre acquisition building condition surveys of residential buildings.

Design and contract administration for schools and healthcare projects.

Bedford Estates – Assistant Estates Building Surveyor
Refurbishment schemes and external redecoration projects for Listed buildings.

Service charge budgeting including associated condition inspections.

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