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 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.
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.
Experienced assessments, investigations, appraisals and the development of cost-effective structural repair solutions for existing buildings, including non-traditional housing.
We understand the importance of conserving and sensitively restoring heritage structures so that their stories can continue and our connection with history is preserved. Our solutions are driven by our commitment to be sympathetic to the historically significant Monuments and Listed structures we design for, redevelop and regenerate.
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