Work expertise

Expertise of disorders with or without litigation

The main purpose of the construction appraisal is to examine the disorders that affect a construction work, most often to find the causes, define the remedies and costs and analyze the responsibilities involved.

It is ordered to inform those responsible for settling these disorders, either in an amicable framework, most often under a construction insurance contract, or in a judicial framework if the occurrence of a disorder is the origin or consequence of a dispute.

In both cases, it complies with strict procedural rules set out in the Law and its implementing decrees, to which the formal requirements of a settlement agreement may be added.

In general, a construction expertise can be requested or ordered by any person confronted with a pathology or a disorder affecting a building or civil engineering structure, whether this disorder has given rise to a dispute or not.

It can also be ordered to investigate a dispute, in relation or not to a material disorder.

DEFINITION OF MALFUNCTION:

The role of the expert

The role of the expert is to:

Look for the causes
Look for responsibilities
Verification of documents and contracts
Verification of the financial health of the contractor in the event of a dispute
Analyze the problems
Find solutions
To give advice
Produce a complete and well-argued report that can be used as a support for a complaint.

Expertise in workmanship, disorders, etc.

The construction activity is increasingly codified and technological.

The application of standards, DTU, seismic rules, thermal regulations, etc. is not always ensured by the interveners, little or badly trained in new regulations and techniques which are constantly evolving.

During construction or carrying out works, it is common for disputes to arise between companies and the Client.

Building a house or carrying out simple work is very stressful, compliance with contractual specifications and the rules of the art is often uncertain.

Expert du Sud Ouest assists and advises you in the event of a disagreement with your manufacturer, a company or a Project Manager, in the event of disorders, poor workmanship or equipment malfunction.

The assistance of an Expert from the Expert du Sud Ouest firm removes the pressure from building professionals and re-establishes a balance between the client and the company.

The achievement of all these missions is necessarily a matter for specialists; in fact, these checks involve real technical skills in building pathology and good practice in construction and insurance law.

It is also necessary to have a perfect knowledge of the activity of the building all trades in order to precisely interpret the nature of the defects or the disaster, to define the protective measures to prevent the possible aggravation of disorders and damage. stop the quantum of damage.

To permanently guarantee this good quality of intervention, Cabinet EXATIS undertakes to regularly follow continuous training programs and to keep legal and technical monitoring up to date.