About
Our geographical reach puts our building experts close to clients right around the world.With expertise in all the critical aspects of building structures and fabric - as well as engineering systems - we develop strategies that optimise building performance and operational efficiency. Combining technical due diligence, compliance and certification with commissioning and engineering design into a single integrated organisation, we can move rapidly from understanding the issue and identifying the problem to devising a solution and implementing it. This simplifies points of contact, saves time and reduces risk.
Technical & Environmental Due Diligence is essential to buying & selling property. They highlight risks, bring clarity to complex technical issues, identify & quantify liabilities & give an informed position from which to negotiate.
Buy, sell and negotiate with confidence
Our team combines local expertise and international experience to secure the best outcomes for large and complex transactions involving cross-border or multi-site portfolios. We support your transactions every step of the way, leaving no open issues and no questions unanswered.-
Renowned for Quality
A single point of contact is our critical link in delivering consistency and quality across Belgium. Behind the scenes, we share experiences and knowledge continually to make sure the advice we give you reflects the very latest thinking on building technology, occupier trends, legislation and market practice. -
Industry Specialists
We have the largest network of real estate advisors in the world. That means we have the specialists in all the places you need them. We investigate everything thoroughly - from building structures and complex facade systems to the many engineering services installations - assessing their quality and condition, as well as measuring how they perform against energy legislation and the sustainability agenda.
And at the frontier of innovation, our Geomatics team offers 3D modelling, to provide accurate measurement data, BIM-ready floor plans and digital twins.
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Speed of Response
With so many in-house experts we can hit the ground running with a team specially picked for your assignment. Our RICS qualified surveyors, ESG consultants and building specialists are ready when you need them. Our team is coordinated by your single point of contact which guarantees the clarity and consistency of our advice, whilst driving optimal results. -
Transaction Certainty
When you’re buying or selling property, we know our advice is always part of a broader agenda, so we make sure it’s practical, commercially focused and leaves no questions unanswered. Our technical insight, detailed analysis and market knowledge will save you money and manage your exposure to risk.
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Design, construction and performance insights about façades - new and old - and every kind of building envelope.
Cutting edge digital measurement technology for multiple real estate applications. Unleash the latent power of building data.
Building systems engineering, technical intelligence and design, rooted in energy efficiency, low cost in use and ease of maintenance.
Project Monitoring
Our team specialises in providing comprehensive technical design assessments for a wide range of development projects. By offering quality assurance for purchases or financing, we ensure that all aspects of a project meet the required standards and expectations. Our approach includes periodic monitoring of construction works, which is essential for verifying compliance with investment agreements and project specifications. We focus on several key areas to guarantee the overall success and integrity of the project:
- Timely Completion of Works: We closely monitor project timelines to ensure that all construction activities are progressing according to the established schedule. By identifying potential delays early, we can implement corrective measures to keep the project on track and avoid costly overruns.
- Budget Management and Cash Flow Oversight: Our team conducts detailed budget analysis and cash flow assessments to ensure that expenditures align with financial plans. We provide insights and recommendations to optimise resource allocation, minimise waste, and enhance financial control throughout the project lifecycle.
- Quality Assurance Throughout the Construction Process: We perform regular inspections and assessments of construction materials, workmanship, and adherence to design specifications. This proactive approach helps to identify and address any issues promptly, ensuring that the final outcome meets or exceeds quality standards.
In addition to these core areas, we confirm and verify the successful completion of each project phase, providing stakeholders with comprehensive documentation and reports. Our team is dedicated to supporting any follow-up actions required post-completion, ensuring that any remaining issues are addressed and that the project continues to meet its objectives. We are committed to fostering a collaborative relationship with all stakeholders, ensuring transparency and accountability throughout the entire process of project monitoring.
Technical Advisory
We offer tailored technical advisory services for real estate assets, addressing a variety of needs. We have in-house teams to tackle most technical challenges, or we can unburden you of the more complex issues, by managing and coordinating specialized subcontractors. Such support can consist of:
- Acceptance/snagging processes
- Permitting issues
- Fire safety audits
- Dilapidation surveys
- Condition surveys
- Area measurement (certificates)
- Data room management
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Dilapidations done differently. Creative advice with a commercial focus, tactical strategies and expert negotiation on managing dilapidations risks for landlords and tenants.
We have unique access to in-house experts like mechanical and electrical engineers, façade consultants and environmental experts, so our advice is always detailed and comprehensive. We have in-house cost consultants too, working day-to-day in the construction market, so our pricing is always accurate and reliable.
We approach dilapidations from a commercial perspective. Working hard to achieve the best outcome for our clients, using all our experience representing both landlords and tenants, in each case seeing the world as they see it.
Our Services
Protecting the value of your property assets through effective enforcement of a tenant’s dilapidations obligations.
Our Services:
- Lease Advice and Dilapidations Strategies
- Terminal Dilapidations Claims and Negotiations
- Interim Dilapidations Claims and Negotiations
- Dilapidations Project Management
- Break Option Advice
- Tenant Surrender and Assignment Advice
- Pre-Lease Advice
- Portfolio Management
Effective strategies to manage the risks of exiting a lease. We help manage and mitigate your dilapidations liabilities at the end of your lease or at any time during it.
Our Services:
- Lease Advice and Dilapidations Strategies
- Dilapidations Provision Reports and Lease Accounting Standards (IFRS 16) Advice
- Cross Border Portfolio Provisioning
- Defence of Terminal Dilapidations Claims
- Defence of Interim Dilapidations Claims
- Break Option Advice and Managing Break Risks
- Surrender, Assignment and Sub-Letting Advice
- Decommissioning Advice
- Dilapidations Project Management
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Building surveys highlight risks, bring clarity to complex technical issues, identify & quantify liabilities and give an informed position from which to negotiate.
Building systems engineering, technical intelligence and design, rooted in energy efficiency, low cost in use and ease of maintenance.
Make informed decisions on rent reviews, lease renewals and other lease driven issues with advice from market leading experts.
Energy efficiency building systems. Design, control and performance strategies to maximise the contribution engineering systems make to sustainable, productive and cost-effective buildings.
Keep on the front foot with smart technology, innovation and sustainable engineering.
Our Services
Analysis, advice and strategies to meet the day-to-day demands of building operation - and for transaction activity - guidance on the features most valued by occupiers or investors.
We focus on managing risks and liabilities, carbon reduction and optimising energy costs.
Committed to low energy, low carbon design, and net zero, we deliver project strategies to achieve the sustainability accreditation you need - MEES, BREEAM, LEED, WELL, NABERS, fitwel and GRESB.
Design – turning ideas from feasibility studies into detailed designs - we can use our Geomatics team’s 3D scanning technology to capture site data digitally and design in CAD or Revit for BIM. We handle everything, including supervision on site through to completion and handover into occupation.
Technical Advisor – Choose an independent, client-focused review of commercial and technical proposals from consultants and contractors, so you can be confident you’ll receive exactly what you’ve asked for.
Peer Reviews – A design appraisal looking for value engineering, design gaps, compliance shortcomings, with clear guidance on alignment with your budgets and the design intent.
Plant and system replacement – complete projects in live working environments, planned and phased to manage critical interfaces and mitigate the risk of business interruption.
Project monitoring – critical quality monitoring and assurance on third party projects
Investigation and diagnostics – system analysis and design review to identify, and correct, underperformance.
Leasing services – technical support for landlords and tenants agreeing licences for alteration, and resolving dilapidations and disputes.
Contract Management Support – contractual compliance oversight - making sure risks and liabilities are managed effectively, driving high performance standards and best value for money for you.
Projects – from new build to complex refurbishment, we deliver technically advanced and innovative solutions, commercially focused from the start through design and procurement stages to inspections, commissioning and handover.
Procurement – benefit from our deep industry connections and buying power to get value for money maintenance and project solutions. From development of the client specific contract and through the tender process we ensure that the mobilisation procedures are completed to ensure a smooth transition.
Without significant capital cost, an annual consultancy service allows us to administer the platform and support building managers, and FM teams, in driving plant optimization - increasing plant lifecycle, reducing energy costs and ultimately maintaining peak levels of performance.
A live web portal shows every stakeholder the benefits through a user-friendly dashboard. Benchmarking and energy performance data can be shared on screens in public areas to demonstrate how owners and occupiers are achieving their Corporate Social Responsibility objectives.
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Get lifetime performance from building façades of every type. Fault diagnostics and cost effective, engineering strategies for new systems, maintenance or refurbishment.
Lifetime façade engineering
Manage risk, match appearance with performance, meet ambitious environmental standards and get the best possible value for money from your building façade systems. Expert façade engineers, we investigate and diagnose faults, deliver effective maintenance and replacement strategies, and satisfy compliance standards.
Embrace our sustainability and the cradle-to-cradle ethos. We handle everything from design, material selection and manufacture to installation and subsequent lifetime care.
Façade consultancy
Technical Due Diligence
Technical insight, detailed design analysis and market knowledge focused on saving you money and managing risk. All round façade expertise covering performance, service life, cost in use, compliance and safety - so you can buy and sell with full knowledge and confidence.Statutory Compliance
Comply with façade legislation and get up to date quickly when it changes. Overhead glazing, structural integrity, health and safety, statutory requirements or compliance, we’ll handle it all for you - and tell you what it means from a real estate market perspective too.Project Management
Sustainability Expert façade advice, advocacy and representation for legal actions, warranty and insurance claims, defect investigations and assessments. Sustainability informed engineering strategies designed to optimise the contribution building façades make to achieving sustainability goals and ESG objectives - both in design and in use.Sustainability
Expert façade advice, advocacy and representation for legal actions, warranty and insurance claims, defect investigations and assessments. Sustainability informed engineering strategies designed to optimise the contribution building façades make to achieving sustainability goals and ESG objectives - both in design and in use.Façade Fire Safety
Navigate safety, technical and commercial requirements and stay ahead of the latest legislation and market trends in relation to Façade Fire Safety, with our detailed understanding and real world application of the latest advice and guidance, supported by industry leading teams, commercial insight and insurance cover.Expert Opinion
We know that sometimes things don’t run smoothly and you may need an expert opinion as part of a claim. Or perhaps you are looking for a peer review. The Façade Consultancy team have detailed knowledge of expert roles and can provide you with the expert opinion required for your project. Whether it is dilapidations, insurance, defect analysis, warranty review, product guarantee or dispute resolution in the real estate industry, the team has the right expert for you.Related Services
Building surveys highlight risks, bring clarity to complex technical issues, identify & quantify liabilities and give an informed position from which to negotiate.
Our Project Management group partners with clients to implement cost-efficient, scalable solutions to optimise the design & build process.
We offer tailored property management solutions to meet your unique needs, throughout the property lifecycle and across all asset classes.
Capturing reality. Taking the built environment into a new dimension.
With cutting edge technology – such as 3D terrestrial scanners and 360 photography at our fingertips - our RICS-accredited experts capture spatial data with statistical accuracy that’s correct to 0.2%.
We work closely with you to understand your needs, drawing on the expertise of the wider CBRE team – from valuation experts to retail specialists – to deepen our understanding of what you want to achieve.
Our measured surveys contain more detail and more information. They can be used as the basis for architectural design in the form of sections, elevations and floor plans, as well as data for Building Information Models (BIM). All our reports meet the RICS Property Measurement Standards, so you can be confident internal areas are calculated on a common and consistent basis; critically, they are also objective and independent.
We provide 2D and 3D output including BIM, 360 virtual walkthroughs, site area measurement, boundary and topographical surveys, sections and elevations for refurbishment projects, elevations for rights of light negotiations, demise plans for leases, and Land Registry compliant title plans.
We have the technology and the skills to support you with everything from large scale, global portfolio instructions to small one-off instructions, all delivered with the same exacting precision and attention to detail.
Our Services
We can give you virtual access to any building, at any time, anywhere, by providing an analytical, connected model that can be experienced on mobile devices, tablets, desktops, or even Virtual Reality headsets.
Walkthroughs can be hosted and shared, providing you with an immensely powerful tool for virtual site meetings or presentations, to discuss everything from marketing, leasing, space planning and design development, to development monitoring.
By using the very latest 3D laser scanning devices, we can provide virtual walkthroughs of any built environment within hours of leaving site.
The more you think about measured survey data, the more you’ll realise how often you need it, how much it’s part of everything you do, and perhaps most importantly, how vital it is to have information you can trust. More than ever, clients want confidence in the data being used.
Our RICS qualified team is equipped with the latest, cutting-edge data capture technology, combined with the surveying skills that come from years of experience. We guarantee referenced areas within a tolerance of 0.2%, a level of accuracy that meets the guidelines set out in the RICS Property Measurement Standard.
All our area reports are also provided with an assignable letter of reliance, which transfers a duty of care to future purchasers. This is backed up by our market leading Professional Indemnity Insurance providing unrivalled client confidence, to support transactions from the very outset.
In a world where Architects, Engineers and Construction professionals use sophisticated digital tools to plan, design, construct and manage buildings, we recognise the need to provide 3D BIM-ready Revit (AutoCAD) models.
Our team uses terrestrial 3D scanners and UAV drone technology to capture large datasets of the built environment. Once processed we can store this for you, effectively future-proofing all the information about your asset. Our output includes raw ‘point-cloud’ data for architects, as well as allowing extrapolation of detailed 2D floor plans, sections and elevations.
The Building Information Models provide digital description of every aspect of the built asset.
The Model makes it possible for anyone to access or add to the building component information thus improving asset reliability and performance.
Full 3D datasets promote greater efficiency, save money on design and planning costs, deliver reduced capital and operating expenditure, as well as providing asset registers and a basis for service mapping.
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Federated 3D digital building models that deliver design process efficiency, and set the basis for digital FM.
Air quality matters
As cities expand across the planet, the air quality, inside and outside our buildings, is becoming a critical human and political issue. Breathing poor quality air in the work environment caused by poorly designed mechanical systems, ineffective filtration or inadequate ventilation has a detrimental effect on human productivity, wellbeing and overall health.Introducing CBRE Breathe
CBRE Breathe empowers everyone involved in developing, occupying or leasing buildings to analyze indoor air quality, and use this insight to promote the productivity, health and well being of occupiers.Using sophisticated digital technology, coupled with our extensive experience of M&E building ventilation systems, we interrogate your designs to collect and analyze critical data about your building.
CBRE Breathe uses this information to develop and help you implement practical strategies to create the most productive and healthy workplaces, and the most attractive buildings for investors and occupiers.
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Building surveys highlight risks, bring clarity to complex technical issues, identify & quantify liabilities and give an informed position from which to negotiate.
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Pieter-Jan Notelteirs
Director
Expertise: Director – Building Consultancy