Building Envelope

Building Envelope Maintenance

Lynx Building Solutions provides both reactive and preventative maintenance services for building envelopes, ensuring the longevity and performance of your building’s exterior. Our maintenance services include roof safety system audits, roof access management, solar PV cleaning, gutter cleaning, and facade maintenance.

We understand that maintaining the building envelope is crucial for reducing long-term costs and ensuring the building is energy-efficient. Our team ensures that all maintenance is carried out in line with any relevant warranties or guarantees. We also offer services such as cut edge corrosion treatment, furniture weatherproofing, and the management of roof warranties and guarantees, ensuring that all compliance requirements are met.

In addition to regular maintenance, we provide comprehensive dilapidation reports and schedule preventative work to avoid costly repairs in the future. By managing and maintaining the building envelope, we help clients reduce operating costs and extend the life of their buildings.

Dilapidations Expertise

Lynx Building Solutions offers extensive knowledge in dilapidations and follows a non-adversarial approach to achieve favourable settlements, avoiding prolonged negotiations. Whether acting on behalf of a landlord or a tenant, we ensure our clients are well-positioned with a comprehensive schedule of dilapidations. Our specialist teams work closely with clients to ensure they understand the claims, settlement strategies, and areas of likely negotiation, whether they be landlords or tenants.

Landlord-tenant relationships can be complex, especially when determining if a tenant has properly maintained the landlord’s building. Interpreting lease terms and navigating case law related to dilapidations requires expert knowledge, and we ensure these aspects are addressed comprehensively.

Our dilapidations team has access to in-house experts such as mechanical and electrical engineers, façade consultants, and environmental experts. This comprehensive expertise allows us to provide detailed advice, ensuring that our pricing is always accurate and reliable. We work to understand the wider property market, not just the immediate repair costs, giving us a unique advantage.

Preventative Maintenance Regimes

Our clients often adopt a regular preventative maintenance regime, which helps reduce the total lifecycle cost of owning a building’s envelope. This proactive approach helps avoid expensive repairs and enhances the overall longevity of the building.

Our Maintenance Division provides both reactive and preventative services, such as:

• Annual maintenance contracts (both preventative and reactive)
• Estate management (multi-location UK-wide)
• Guarantee/warranty management
• Roof access and safety system audits
• Roof access management and control
• Solar PV cleaning
• Gutter cleaning
• Cut edge corrosion treatment
• Furniture weatherproofing.

Warranty and Guarantee Upkeep

The commercial and industrial markets have increasingly demanded longer-term guarantees for new roof installations, which are often subject to complex terms. To maintain coverage, it is essential to follow a strict inspection and maintenance regime in line with the guarantee’s terms. Failure to comply could invalidate the guarantee and result in unnecessary repair costs or roof replacement.

Lynx Building Solutions ensures that the terms of roof guarantees are upheld. We manage warranties and guarantees, conduct annual roof surveys, provide inspections and remedial maintenance, and carry out audits of roof access and safety systems to ensure that all requirements are met.

Building Envelope Upgrade and Refurbishment

Lynx Building Solutions works with clients across the retail, manufacturing, and distribution sectors to refurbish and upgrade existing buildings. Our services address weathering damage, enhance thermal performance, and enable the installation of solar PV systems.

Our team offers tailored solutions, including dilapidation surveys, roof refurbishments, gutter cleaning, rooflight replacements, and asbestos removal. We also provide facade upgrades, using built-up cladding, rainscreen systems, and architectural finishes to improve both the performance and aesthetic appeal of the building.

New Build Building Envelope

Lynx Building Solutions design, install, and provide aftercare for building envelope systems across a range of sectors, including industrial, commercial, and retail. We offer services including the installation of built-up, membrane, and composite roof systems, as well as cladding systems, integrated gutters, and curtain walling.

We focus on delivering sustainable solutions, ensuring that new buildings meet net zero carbon targets. Our commitment to innovation drives our efforts to provide high-quality, energy-efficient systems for new construction projects.

Cladding and Façade Services

We provide expert services for cladding and façade systems, offering both aesthetic and performance upgrades. Whether upgrading or replacing existing cladding, our solutions include composite cladding, rainscreen systems, glazing, and façade cleaning.

We also offer repairs, including asbestos encapsulation or removal, ensuring compliance with health and safety regulations and improving the overall performance of the building.

Maintenance Contracts

Our bespoke maintenance contracts are designed to keep your building envelope in peak condition. Our services include annual roof surveys, warranty management, and regular inspections. We ensure that all maintenance is carried out in line with the terms of any relevant guarantees, ensuring long-term value for building owners.

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