Asbestos Refurbishment Surveys: What You Need to Know

If you are planning any upgrades, renovations, or demolition work on a building constructed before 2000, an Asbestos Refurbishment Survey is a legal and safety requirement.

Standard “Management Surveys” (the kind used for day-to-day building occupancy) aren’t enough when tools start hitting walls. You need a deeper look to ensure no one breathes in life-altering fibres.

Why is this survey different?

Unlike a management Survey a Refurbishment Survey is intrusive. Its goal is to locate asbestos-containing materials (ACMs) in the specific areas where work will occur, including those hidden behind surfaces.

• Legal Compliance: This is a mandatory requirement under health and safety regulations (such as CAR 2012 in the UK) before a project begins.
• Planning major building refurbishments
• Demolishing all or part of a property
• Carrying out structural changes to walls, floors or ceilings
• Undertaking work that may disturb previously inaccessible areas

• Destructive Access: Surveyors may need to lift floorboards, break into wall cavities, or check behind partitions.
• Targeted Scope: It doesn’t necessarily cover the whole building; it focuses strictly on the “footprint” of your proposed project.

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