Quality Assured Asbestos Surveys in Brighton

Qualified and highly experienced local surveyors and removal operatives on the south coast of England

With an office located on the south coast of England, Oracle Solutions is perfectly placed to provide a full range of asbestos services to those requiring asbestos surveys, removals, air monitoring, and asbestos training throughout the southern counties, including Hampshire, Dorset, Berkshire, Sussex, and Oxfordshire. We use local asbestos operatives who enable us to provide you with a fast and reliable service.

South Regional Office:

Office Address: Director General’s House, 15 Rockstone Place, Southampton, SO15 2EP

Telephone: 0844 245 1719

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When you require a management survey, refurbishment survey, or demolition survey at a site in or near Brighton and Hove, you don’t need to look further than our local operatives.

Our Southern Office – located about 60 miles from Brighton – leaves us well-placed here at Oracle Solutions to cater to the asbestos inspection requirements of individuals and organisations in this beautiful part of East Sussex.

Whether your building is in Brighton city centre, Seven Dials, Kemptown, Brunswick Town, Ovingdean, Patcham, or elsewhere in the locality of Brighton and Hove, our well-qualified asbestos surveyors can move fast to provide you with a complete and dependable service.

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What asbestos surveys do we undertake in Brighton and nearby?

The short answer to that question is… all of them! There are two broad types of asbestos survey in the UK. So, if you are looking to arrange an inspection at your Brighton premises to fulfil your legal “duty to manage” asbestos, you will be pleased to know we can carry out both:

A management survey can be undertaken to enable the “dutyholder” for a building in or near Brighton to put together an asbestos register and an asbestos management plan. This type of survey is the less intrusive of the two. It helps with the management of asbestos-containing materials (ACMs) during a property’s normal occupation and use.
A refurbishment or demolition survey allows a dutyholder to satisfy their legal obligation to have all ACMs removed from their building, as far as reasonably practicable, prior to major refurbishment or demolition work. This type of survey entails destructive inspection. It is designed to find and identify even ACMs that are embedded deep in the given property’s fabric.

Oracle Solutions is quality assured and accredited (inspection body 4600) for all these types of asbestos survey in Brighton or elsewhere in East Sussex. So, you can be sure that we will carry out a thorough and safe asbestos inspection at your building.

Once the survey itself is complete, we will issue you with a thorough asbestos report. This document will set out information on the asbestos situation in your building, including a bulk analysis report and material assessments.

Crucially, the report will be in easy-to-understand plain English. No less importantly, the document will set out recommendations that will help you to manage the ACMs at your Brighton premises in a well-informed, safe, and legally compliant way.

The vital things to know about asbestos surveys in and near Brighton

Below, we have picked out a few of the questions we most frequently receive about asbestos surveys in Brighton and the south of England. In response, we have provided answers from our highly trained and certified professionals.

If you have any further questions or would like to request a quote for an asbestos survey in Brighton, please get in touch with our team directly.

What is involved in an asbestos survey?

The broad purpose of an asbestos survey is to inspect a building or property in order to locate and identify ACMs. Following the inspection itself, the surveyor typically puts together a report detailing the ACMs at the given site. The dutyholder for the building can then use this information to decide how to manage the substance in their premises.

Our experts at Oracle Solutions have written in the past about the various aspects of the asbestos surveying process. The surveyor normally starts with a walk-through of the premises, so that they can undertake a general risk assessment. They will then get to work on the actual survey, operating methodically to pick out materials they suspect contain asbestos.

In order to establish for sure whether a particular material consists of asbestos fibres, it is necessary to arrange an analysis of a representative sample. Laboratory analysis of suspected ACMs is not something that “just anyone” can do. Instead, specially trained and competent analysts will need to carry out this scrutiny in an appropriate facility.

Air testing might also form part of the asbestos surveying process. This may be arranged if the survey’s initial findings suggest that doing so will be useful for assessing the risk the banned mineral might present in the given space.

Is arranging an asbestos survey in Brighton a legal necessity?

The question of whether there is a strict legal requirement to have an asbestos survey carried out at a UK building has caused confusion among some dutyholders. We have previously set out a detailed explanation of how the law stands on the subject of asbestos inspections.

In summary, however, if you manage a property in or close to Brighton, and:

You’re involved in maintaining, refurbishing, and/or demolishing the given building, and
There is a possibility of asbestos being disturbed as a result of these processes and threatening human health, and
You lack the vital information that would allow you to reduce or eliminate this risk…

…the situation is relatively simple. Yes, you will need to arrange an asbestos survey in such circumstances.

The reality is that while the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 (CAR 2012) doesn’t explicitly state the dutyholder for a given property must have an asbestos survey carried out on it, an asbestos survey is often the only safe and responsible way to gather such information.

Why should you only request the services of UKAS-accredited asbestos surveyors?

There is only one national accreditation body that the UK Government recognises for assessing asbestos surveying organisations against international standards – the United Kingdom Accreditation Service, or UKAS.

By carrying out thorough inspections and making sure asbestos surveying specialists adhere to impeccable standards of technical competency and integrity, UKAS does important work to give building owners and managers peace of mind.

You might be interested in reading our previous in-depth guide to the importance of engaging the services of UKAS-accredited asbestos surveyors.

Ask for a rapid and competitive quote for Brighton asbestos surveying today. Wherever your premises is located in or near Brighton, Hove, or East Sussex, and however urgent your need for an asbestos survey might be, we can quickly leap into action.

We are renowned for the transparency of our quotes, which don’t come with any nasty “extra” charges. So, it really is the case that the price we present to you, will be the price that you pay.