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Insite: Our Starting Point for Existing Buildings 

Curtins’ bespoke Insight service helps clients maintain the structural safety of existing buildings and confidently plan for their forward use.

With deep expertise in the maintenance, refurbishment and retrofit of existing buildings, our team identifies structural and compliance risks and provides a clear, actionable pathway to remediation and reuse.

From investigation and remedial solution design to ongoing support, we coordinate every stage across all building types and sectors, both public and private.

Our innovative approach often uncovers smarter, more cost-effective solutions that reduce risk and protect reputations.

Insite. Let’s unlock the potential of your buildings.  

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Why Insite? 

Insite provides a consistent, structured and evidence‑led starting point for understanding existing buildings and asset portfolios. By establishing a robust baseline of structural information, Insite enables our clients to understand structural risk, meet regulatory requirements and make confident decisions about structural safety and future use.

Insite can be applied to individual buildings or across portfolios, supporting clients to:

  • Establish the structural Golden Thread

  • Understand structural condition, capacity and constraints

  • Identify risks and unlock opportunities for forward use

Insite aligns technical assessment with client priorities, including safety, quality, programme, cost and sustainability, whilst enabling digitally led, data‑driven approaches to asset management and decision‑making.

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Insite Delivers

Through Insight, we establish:

  • Building typology

  • Basic and construction information

  • Common issues and defects

  • Initial structural risk profile

  • Forward recommendations

This common starting point supports meeting regulatory requirements, managing structural risk, and making confident, evidence-based decisions about structural safety and forward use, whether for individual buildings or across complex portfolios.

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Insite Supports

Building Safety Cases

Insite is aligned with the Building Safety Act requirements, following a structured, evidence‑led approach to establish a robust baseline of structural information. This baseline forms the structural Golden Thread and risk profile, supporting a clear understanding of structural safety risks and defining the forward actions required to ensure ongoing structural safety.

Ecofurbishment

Our Ecofurbishment service is supported by Insite through a structured, evidence‑led approach to establishing a baseline understanding of existing structural capacity and constraints. This baseline enables informed decisions on reuse, refurbishment and retrofit, supporting low‑carbon interventions while managing structural safety risk, cost and programme considerations throughout the building’s next phase of use.

Conservation and Heritage

Insite supports conservation and heritage assets by establishing a baseline understanding of historic construction techniques, materials and condition. This baseline informs considered conservation decisions, helping manage structural risk, guide sensitive intervention, support future use and protect heritage significance.

Asset Portfolios

Multiple buildings and asset portfolios are supported by Insite through its consistent approach to baseline information. This enables comparable data, aligned structural risk profiles and prioritised actions that aids informed decision‑making, strategic investment planning and proactive management of structural safety, maintenance and future use at estate scale.

Our Approach To...

Windmill Green

Insite

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Curtins’ bespoke Insight service helps clients maintain the structural safety of existing buildings and confidently plan for their forward use

Foursite

Foursite

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Our innovative approach to due diligence, pre-planning and other development services.

Ecofurbishment

Ecofurbishment

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Our economical remodelling of existing buildings to ensure they can reused or retrofitted in a sustainable, continuous loop.

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Masterplanning

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Strategically delivering city masterplans and phased developments

Our Insite Projects

Henry Cotton LJMU
Higher Education

As part of Liverpool John Moores University’s largest redevelopment project, we are providing civil and structural engineering expertise to support decarbonisation and deliver modern, flexible facilities for students and staff.

Henry Cotton Building, LJMU, Liverpool

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29th May 26

Curtins Roundtable with Liverpool Innovators: Unlocking the Future of Existing Buildings

Last month, we hosted a Liverpool Innovators roundtable bringing together voices from across the built environment, public sector and innovation ecosystem to explore how the reuse and retrofit of existing buildings can support a more sustainable, adaptable Liverpool City Region.

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Our Values

Being Human

We value people as people. We believe in fostering meaningful human connections that speak to the hearts and minds of our stakeholders, to build strong powerful relationships and communities that thrive and flourish.

Integrity

We say what we mean and mean what we say. Integrity lies at the heart of everything we do. It is the constant in the choices we make which builds trust, honesty, fairness, and respect for our colleagues and our clients alike.

Impact

Impact demonstrates the immeasurable power of our shared values and collective effort to effect positive, ground-breaking change and deliver excellence for our customers, colleagues, and the communities we serve.

Curiosity

We foster a culture of curiosity to help us constantly improve our work, inspire others to do better and think bigger, and to never stop learning.

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Let’s talk about your next project and how our experienced team can help

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