Real estate consulting

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About DM 20 million of losses occur in Germany each year as a result of shoddy workmanship at the construction site. This involves improvement work for companies, contractors and construction supervisors, and often additional work, as well as annoyance and stress, for contracting clients; there are also sometimes unnecessary additional legal expenses for both parties. So as to avoid this and to ensure comprehensively the quality of an item of real estate, TÃœV now provides a new service: real estate consulting. This means that we test, provide expert reports, certify, advise you in all matters of real estate as well as organizing training sessions.

TÃœV carries out geotechnical examinations of land for you and compiles expert reports on land contamination and shock. Certificates and expert reports give you the certainty of having excluded potential cost risks.

Planning
You should make use of our experts' know-how in the first planning stages of your construction work. TÃœV experts carefully check plans and all documents in respect of technical regulations, specifications and operating safety. We provide you with consulting in selecting the correct components and technical systems, develop individual heat, sound and fire protection plans and energy-saving measures for you.

New construction/conversion/rehabilitation
TÃœV checks architects' and contractors' planning documents and provides consulting on issues of energy supply in the case of new constructions.TÃœV provides assistance in the early identification and elimination of defects as a result of regular construction site inspections. It carries out the quality checks on the trades and technical facilities and thus helps to ensure quality at the construction site. The achieved standard of quality is documented with certificates and test papers. TÃœV compiles repair and rehabilitation plans, loss analyses and expert reports. Our specialists accompany all the necessary rehabilitation measures. Depending on the project, our specialists ensure the safety and the health protection of those employed on the construction site.

Operation/use
TÃœV carries out physical examinations and tests the shell and sealing of buildings during the use phase of an item of real estate.We carry out the acceptance tests on building systems and on fire protection systems and check all maintenance and repair work.In addition, we carry out sound protection measurements, analyze and evaluate the causes of noise, engage microbiological examinations and carry out hygiene examinations.Of course, we also test regularly electrical systems, material-handling systems, heating systems, ventilation systems and sanitary installations.

Purchase/sale
TÃœV compiles expert reports on values when it comes to purchases and sales, financing and insuring items of real estate. TÃœV's work also includes carrying out examinations into contamination and pollutant loads.TÃœV certificates: powerful arguments when hiring out and sellingYou can obtain certificates for many aspects of real estate consulting. You can use them as marketing instruments.Certificates give your customers confidence and assist you in distinguishing yourself positively from your competitors. Companies which have met the quality requirements of TÃœV can be given various quality seals."TÃœV at the construction site" for quality-related construction and modernization and "TÃœV Tox-proof" for the use of low-pollution materials are just two of the many tests from our wide range.More and more customers will be paying attention to this tested quality in future.