Two partners join SEC research groups

COVID-19 – an opportunity for change
In March 2020, along with the rest of the world, the UK Construction industry was disrupted in a way that none of us had experienced before by the coronavirus pandemic. At Baily Garner, like most other businesses, we had to react quickly to enable our operations to continue, whilst keeping our employees safe as we went into a nationwide lockdown.
Christmas Charity Donation

The end of gas?
As part of our involvement with this year’s HOMES UK conference, Partners John Milner and Ian Maun spoke at a session about the proposed future ban on gas boilers in new homes and alternative heating sources that can be considered as a replacement.
Fire safety, cladding and the PI Insurance crisis – the perfect storm?
We are in an environment where the Government are making millions of pounds available for crucial remediation and compliance work, and there is a need to build more and higher quality housing, which will ultimately be governed by the need for new skills and accreditation. Alongside this, the incremental reductions in PI cover available and the increases in premiums and excesses applied, run the very high risk of restricted capacity in the market, greater risk aversion, or indeed burying one’s head in the sand and less appetite to deliver the work, all potentially leading to the perfect storm.
Managing Partner, Andy Tookey, hosted a round table session at the 2020 HOMES UK virtual event, to discuss the challenges, potential solutions and their implications for the construction market. Below he summarises the key points from the discussion with our panel of speakers from across the industry representing views from the insurance sector, consultants, lawyers, contractors and clients.
BIM and existing buildings: time to rethink?
The tendency to believe that BIM is the sole preserve of new-build construction overlooks the advantages it can have for the management and refurbishment of existing buildings. Partner, Rob Ireland, wrote the following article for the RICS Built Environment Journal to discuss.
Quality Summit 2020
Approved Document B (Fire Safety) Amendment – what you need to know
On Thursday 26th November 2020, an amendment was made to Approved Document B (Fire Safety) (ADB) such that the height threshold for provision of sprinklers is no longer triggered at 30 metres, but now at 11 metres for residential buildings, extensions, change of use or material alteration and mixed use properties under Regulation 3 (Building Works). Provisions of additional way finding shall also be required in properties above 11m in height.
Karen nominated for PA Life Club Member of the Year

HOMES 2020 sponsorship

Lockdown 2 offices update
Following the announcement of a second lockdown in England starting from Thursday 5th November, we will be ensuring we work within the current Government guidelines.
Our Newest Associate Partner

Andrew Little promoted to Equity Partner

Procure Partnerships Framework
We are proud to announce that Baily Garner has been appointed to the Procure Partnerships Framework Professional Services Agreement, which runs from 2020-2024.
Through this framework we can support our public sector clients in five different geographical regions and the framework allows clients to make direct appointments or to run a competitive tender. Read more >
Our Office to Residential Bulletin
Due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and its impact on the economy, businesses are changing the way they operate with increased home working. This has caused both owners and tenants to reconsider the future of their office buildings. For our view on the incoming rise of office to residential developments read our latest bulletin
Success at the LABC London Awards
Northdown Gardens won in the category of Best Individual New Home at the LABC London Awards. Congratulations to the entire project team for all of their hard work. BG provided Professional Services for this project. If you would like to read more about the project and the awards click here.
Our Fire Safety Bulletin
Fire safety on construction projects has probably never had a greater profile so our latest Fire Safety Bulletin, showing the impacts of recent legislation on the construction industry as well as what BG are doing to help drive change in terms of fire safety is an important read. in the bulletin we show projects and share information on this changing landscape.
Opening of our Eltham and Birmingham Offices
After the successful re-opening of our Head office in Eltham earlier in the summer, a small number of staff have now also returned to office working in our Birmingham office, as of Monday 27th July.
Both offices are now operating successfully within the safety parameters required by government guidelines, but with a reduced level of occupancy.
Please note that at this time all offices remain closed to visitors.
APC Success: Our New Chartered Building Surveyors
Well done to our 3 new Chartered Building Surveyors from our Head Office. Jack Plummer, Max Skeet and George Gardner who all passed their APC exams and as of last week are Chartered.
Quality Results
It was a busy week on the quality accreditation front with Baily Garner being separately audited for 3 different accreditations over the first 7 days of June. We’re thrilled to confirm that we were successful in maintaining our quality accreditations for our ISO 9001 Quality Management System, our Cyber Essentials Plus IT security accreditation and our ISO 14001 Environmental Management System. Read more >
Dilapidations
In these uncertain times the many challenges presented by the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has seen an impact on the economy and how businesses operate. With the obvious economic impact unfolding and the deployment of staff to home working policy, tenant’s will be considering their strategy for retention and future occupation of properties, looking perhaps at early lease breaks or not renewing leases. Landlord’s might therefore be faced with a tenant vacating early requiring them to manage a re-let. Read more >
Site Operating Procedures CLC latest (third) version 15/4/20
Baily Garner is now following the latest CLC guidance set out in its Site Operating Procedure Advice note (3rd) version 15/4/2020 and drawing this latest guidance to our Partners attention, to request that it is being followed on those sites currently in operation.
The Housing Forum – Coronavirus: a view from the sector
The Housing Forum members have put together a bulletin entitled “Coronavirus – a view from the sector” which reaffirms a Partnership approach to how the housing industry should manage the implications of the current Covid-19 public health crisis. Baily Garner LLP were keen and active contributors to this guidance which we would encourage readers to read, contemplate and share.
Kensington Street Shortlisted at the Housing Design Awards
Our Kensington Street scheme has been shortlisted in the Completed Schemes category at this year’s Housing Design Awards. Baily Garner provided Architectural and Employer’s Agent Services for this 100% Affordable Housing Scheme in Brighton for Brighton and Hove City Council and the Guinness Partnership.
Our plans and actions to deal with the ongoing Covid-19 (Coronavirus) outbreak (Update 24 March)
UPDATE 24 MARCH
As the Covid-19 crisis has been deepening, day by day, we have been carefully reviewing all our operations and putting plans into place to ensure that we are following and complying with all government guidance to keep people safe and reduce the risk of spreading the coronavirus infection whilst, at the same time, also ensuring we continue to provide the appropriate service and support to all our clients and construction project partners. Read more >
Consultant Thought Leadership Group
Baily Garner are proud to be members of the Consultant Thought Leadership Group, a group of Chartered Surveyors, Employers Agents and Project Managers that have got together to help drive quality and change within the construction industry through collaboration and knowledge sharing. The attached open letter to all our clients discusses the impact of Covid-19 on our industry and discusses some potential ways through
Our plans and actions to deal with the ongoing Covid-19 (Coronavirus) outbreak
Purpose
In addition to our Business Continuity Policies, we are doing the following in order to to deal with the 2020 Covid-19 (Coronavirus) outbreak. Due to the changing nature of the risks, it is a plan that is subject to regular review and change.
Email Delivery Problems – an update
Following some changes to email settings made in a Microsoft update in January we are encountering a higher than usual number of mail delivery issues when sending and receiving emails from clients. If this is/has affected you, here’s some detail you should share with your email service provider or IT team so that they can liaise with our IT team to resolve the issue https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/security/office-365-security/use-dmarc-to-validate-email. .
Second Quality Summit for Technical Staff – “such an engaging day”.

Second Annual Baily Garner Summit is Nearly Here…

Andy Tookey and Baily Garner Feature in Masthead October 2019

Kensington Street Wins Best Architectural Design

Jack’s Article – RICS Built Environment Journal

Kensington Street Shortlisted Finalist in 2019 South East Construction Awards

Karen Featured in PA Life

24Housing Roundtable Discussion

Tops Club Shortlisted for Housing Essex Excellence Award
We are excited to announce that Tops Club has been shortlisted for a Housing Essex Excellence Award, Baily Garner provided Quantity Surveying services to the residential project. We have been nominated for the 2nd category – Best Housing Schemes Under 50 homes. The awards ceremony will be held on the 10th of October.
Member of South East London Chamber of Commerce

Congratulations to Dan – our New Associate Partner

Mock Interviews for Year 13 Pupils

Baily Garner Breakfast Briefing – 18 January 2019 – Brexit and Construction (an economic view)

2019 Graduate and Year Out Application Deadline

Baily Garner Sponsor Homes 2018

We’re Cyber Essential Plus Accredited

Attending your University Careers Fair?
Autumn is always a busy period for university careers fairs – we’ve been travelling across the country talking to students about our Year Out and Graduate opportunities and have received some great feedback so far from Anglia Ruskin, Oxford Brookes and Nottingham Trent universities. Read more >
Congratulations to our New Associate Partner Os

BG Quality Summit – BG’s Commitment to the Quality Agenda

Baily Garner Quality Summit

Graduation and RICS Award Congratulations

ISO 9001 Audit Success

Digital Signatures
The Technical Stuff
Baily Garner have introduced digitally signed pdf documents using a 1024bit encryption public key infrastructure (PKI) certificate issued to Baily Garner from VeriSign. The certificates are held on a Class 2 crypto device, with access being controlled via a microsoft active directory authentication using a Strong Password Policy. What this means is that you have the peace of mind to know that signer’s digital identity is legitimate.
The ‘signature’ will appear on each document in a similar looking format and will include the name of the authoriser, the date and time the document was signed and a web link to this page to help explain digital signatures, see example
This gives you the assurance that the information has not been altered since it was authorised, as any modification made to the document after signing will invalidate the signature, and acrobat reader will allow you to see what was actually signed (the original document).
For more information see http://www.adobe.com/security/digsig.html
APC Success for June

Announcing our New Non-Executive Director

Join Andy at CIH Housing 2018 Manchester

Andy Tookey Co-Chairs Working Group for Housing Forum Commissioned Report

Baily Garner Now Constructionline Gold Accredited

Our Latest Associate Partner

BG Feature in Women in Construction Project

Take a Look at our New Publications

Launch of our City of London Office

Jeremy Corbyn Opens New Community Centre at Ivy Hall

Baily Garner Support Osborne and Demelza Children’s Hospice DIYSOS build

Christmas Celebration at Sea Containers

APC Success for Suki and Alex

Attending your University Careers Fair?

Homes 2017 – 22 & 23 November – London Olympia

Baily Garner and Osborne and Building Space

Celebrating our Latest Partnership Promotions

Welcome James Thacker

Join us at the SEC Conference 1st November 2017

Congratulations to Amy Ramsook

Spring at Stonebridge shortlisted in Building Awards
