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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Insite supports conservation and heritage assets through a structured, evidence‑led approach to 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.
Insite supports asset portfolios through a structured, evidence‑led approach that establishes a consistent baseline across multiple buildings. This enables comparable data, aligned structural risk profiles and prioritised actions, supporting informed decision‑making, strategic investment planning and proactive management of structural safety, maintenance and future use at estate scale
Following the launch of INSITE, we sat down with Board Director and Service Lead, Andy McFarlane, to discuss the service as part of our Behind the Curtin podcast. Click below to listen on Spotify.
Episode 9: Behind the Curtin | Andy MacFarlaneAs 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.
ProjectsThe ongoing transformation of this prominent multi-storey office building on the Liverpool city centre waterfront exemplifies Curtins' strategic approach to existing buildings through our Insite service.
ProjectsOur Liverpool team are working with Equans and Birmingham City Council to deliver structural engineering services for the refurbishment of Large Panel System (LPS) buildings, and have applied Insite to establish the structural behaviour and where further investigation is required.
ProjectsWe've been utilising our new service to help clients maintain the structural integrity of their built assets and confidently plan for their future use. Here's an update on Liverpool John Moores University's Henry Cotton Building.
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