{"id":3815,"date":"2015-06-19T16:45:54","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T20:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randpc.com\/blog\/?p=3815"},"modified":"2015-06-19T17:06:23","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T21:06:23","slug":"ask-our-experts-building-surveys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/m.randpc.com\/blog\/ask-our-experts-building-surveys\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask Our Experts: Building Surveys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To gain a better understanding of your building\u2019s needs and how to best allocate short- and long-term expenditures, a physical condition survey is an invaluable tool. A survey report provides property owners with a comprehensive description of their building systems and a blueprint for planning major capital improvements.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ypWk68vUVqk\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In RAND\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randpc.com\/videos\/#aoe\" target=\"_blank\">Ask Our Experts <\/a>video series, RAND\u2019s Survey Team Leader and Construction Phase Director Ivan Mrakovcic, RA discusses the types of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randpc.com\/videos\/surveys\" target=\"_blank\">building surveys<\/a> that RAND conducts, which systems and components are evaluated, and the anticipated repair and replacement costs itemized in survey reports.<\/p>\n<p>To view other videos of RAND\u2019s experts addressing building issues ranging from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randpc.com\/videos\/fisp\" target=\"_blank\">Facade Inspection Safety Program<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randpc.com\/videos\/special-inspections\" target=\"_blank\">Special Inspections<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randpc.com\/videos\/landmarks\" target=\"_blank\">Landmarks Preservation Commission<\/a> requirements, please visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randpc.com\/videos\/#aoe\" target=\"_blank\">Ask Our Experts <\/a> page on our website.<\/p>\n<p>If you have a building repair\/upgrade question you would like RAND to address, please contact us at 212-675-8844; <a href=\"mailto:&#x69;&#x6e;&#x66;&#x6f;&#x40;&#x72;&#x61;&#x6e;&#x64;&#x70;&#x63;&#x2e;&#x63;&#x6f;&#x6d;\">&#x69;&#x6e;&#x66;&#x6f;&#x40;<span class=\"oe_displaynone\">null<\/span>&#x72;&#x61;&#x6e;&#x64;&#x70;&#x63;&#x2e;&#x63;&#x6f;&#x6d;<\/a> and our experts will be happy to answer it.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To gain a better understanding of your building\u2019s needs and how to best allocate short- and long-term expenditures, a physical condition survey is an invaluable tool. A survey report provides property owners with a comprehensive description of their building systems...<\/p>\n <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/m.randpc.com\/blog\/ask-our-experts-building-surveys\/\" class=\"more-link\" title=\"Read More\"><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/a><\/span>","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":3820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,25],"tags":[324,328,327,326,323],"class_list":["post-3815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-building-information","category-randpcs-better-building-videos","tag-ask-our-experts","tag-major-capital-improvments","tag-pcs","tag-physical-condition-survey","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/m.randpc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/m.randpc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/m.randpc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m.randpc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m.randpc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/m.randpc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m.randpc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/m.randpc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m.randpc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m.randpc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}