Businesses operating within the insurance sector must navigate an increasingly challenging environment; with the regulatory landscape and sector itself constantly evolving.
Gateley Built Environment provide specialist property and construction consultancy services supporting the UK insurance market across the full lifecycle of a claim. Combining technical excellence, commercial awareness, and a detailed understanding of the insurance environment, our innovative team deliver defensible, practical and value-led outcomes.
Why Gateley Built Environment?
Our national, multidisciplinary capability brings together building surveying, quantity surveying, project management, engineering, and specialist technical expertise within a single integrated business. As part of Gateley, our experts benefit from access to the complementary legal and specialist advisory expertise offered by the wider Gateley professional services group.
We support insurers, loss adjusters, brokers, claims administrators, contractors and policyholders, taking a collaborative approach to maintain momentum and resolve technical issues quickly. We recognise that successful reinstatement is not simply a construction exercise but an important part of the customers’ overall claims experience. Our experience covers a broad range of property types, including domestic, high-net-worth, commercial, industrial, retail, leisure, education and complex or specialist buildings.
Our built environment specialists have experience ranging from high volume and routine property damage, through to high value major and complex losses.
What do we do?
- We provide independent technical investigation and assessment of the cause, nature and extent of building damage.
- Our experts develop appropriate, proportional, and technically robust repair and reinstatement strategies.
- We provide building surveying works including: schedules of work, specifications, tendering, contract administration, and monitoring of reinstatement works.
- Our quantity surveying and cost consultancy work includes damage valuation, scope and cost validation, benchmarking, tender analysis, change control and final account agreement as well as reinstatement cost assessments and associated property risk consultancy.
- Our major and complex loss expertise means we can provide senior technical and commercial support on high value or technically challenging claims.
- We are specialists in subsidence, structural movement, fire, flood, escape of water, impact, and other insured damage.
- Our structural and civil engineering capacity enables us to support investigation, repair design, and complex building failures.
- We undertake project management of complex reinstatement programmes, coordinating multiple stakeholders and specialist disciplines.
- We handle defect diagnosis, forensic investigations, expert advice, and dispute support where causation, liability, scope or cost is contested.
- Our team advises on statutory compliance, Building Regulations, planning, CDM, neighbourly matters and the evolving requirements of the Building Safety Act.