Artek Design House Ltd., Cambridge, UK.

Services

The practice offers a complete professional service of the highest caliber available to all clients on all projects. Based on our considerable, wide ranging and extremely broad based experience of the industry gained over 30 years operating within it we can, in complete confidence, make this statement knowing it to be true. Consequently the practice has remained stable in both its staffing and its volume of construction works specified throughout the recent global down turn.

Whether you require a modern, ground breaking design, or perhaps something more vernacular, Artek has the flair, drive and experience to provide, not only the conception, but also and far more importantly, the delivery of your project. That delivery, will be on time and within budget.

We have experience in running all types of construction project from, in monitory terms, and at todays rates, £20k to £1b and of the simplest forms to those of immense complexity. Today however Artek specialises in projects of between £100k and £5m in value although we will, under certain circumstances, work outside of these limits.

The design process may involve a considerable number of stages and each stage may contain may facets. Artek can advise and execute all of them either in house or with our regular, experienced, team of specialist consultants.

Specifically we offer the following :-

Feasibility studies

Project viability assessments

Establishing Design Brief and User requirement specifications

Site surveys

Condition Surveys

Structural Surveys

Building Surveys

Conceptual Design

User Consultations

Pre Planning Consultations

Planning Advice

Planning Applications

Planning Negotiations

Planning Consultations

Section 106 Advice

Conservation Advice

Listed and Historic Building Restoration and adaptation

Waste Management Reports

Sustainability Reports

Energy conservation measures

Energy production measures

Redced Carbon environments

Ecological Reports and recommendations

Arbourculturalists Reports and Recommendations

Flood Risk Assessments

Endangered Species Reports and Recommendations

Daylight Studies

Traffic flow analysis

Noise studies

Party Wall Work, Negotiations and Act Compliance

Working Drawings

Pre planned and preventative maintenance schedules

Specifications

Structural Calculations

Structural Detailing

SAP Calculations

Site Supervision

Contract Administration

Chairing project meetings

Project Management

Snagging and day to day scheduling and monitoring of construction defects, non compliance issues and latent defects and their rectification

Commercial Negotiations, cost analysis and quantity surveying

Dispute resolution, expert witness, legal team support

Final Account Computations

All of the above are either dealt with in house or by our regular consultants

We offer commercially advantageous rates, with either ring fenced money held by solicitors for payment on preset dates or benchmarks, payment on presentation to preset bench marks or 7 or 30 day terms which ever we feel more comfortable with having met a potential client and established their circumstances and their trading vehicle.