De-risking from the start with long-term asset protection
By their nature, Build to Rent construction projects can involve a significant level of risk, with potentially major consequences for developers, investors and tenants. Financial, environmental and reputational factors all come into play – highlighting the need for a partner who understands how to effectively mitigate risk and support the decision-making processes. At NHBC, we have more than 80 years experience doing exactly that, empowering the industry to build better homes and maximise the long-term value of your assets.
Our partnership ethos focuses on working with you from the earliest opportunity to help you deliver homes of the highest quality and value. From day one, our advice and support aims to mitigate specific, tangible risks to your projects, whilst maximising the quality of construction and safeguarding your investors’ long-term assets.
Our teams are on hand to provide technical expertise and guidance from day one. We engage early in the process to help de-risk your project.
Our in-house geo-technical and environmental experts review land intended for residential development to endorse land quality and help inform improvement or remediation work to ensure the land is suitable for residential development and meets required standards, including the NHBC Standards.
We embed NHBC technical specialists in your design and development team to detect and work through any risks of defects or to safety. We work to ensure a design life for buildings of at least 60 years.
We provide rigorous on-site inspections, checking for, advising on and working with the contractor on quality matters through each key stage of construction.
Our construction quality service offers analysis, assessment and reporting on the quality of construction being delivered on your site(s). We benchmark sites against others to give you the best view on performance and areas for improvement.
We’ve been working with developers and contractors for more than 80 years to improve the construction quality of new homes. The NHBC Standards define the technical and performance requirements for the design and construction of new homes registered with us and provide guidance on how these can be achieved.
We have our own inspectors, surveyors and construction quality specialists who support your contractors to meet the standards required. For large and complex developments, particularly high rise, we have our specialist Major Projects Team and fire-safety experts, many of whom have worked on some of the most iconic developments of recent times.
Examples of Build to Rent projects currently covered by NHBC.
Manchester, M15 4QZ
Developer
Pomona Phase One Ltd
Builder
Rowlinson Constructions Ltd
Architect
Nicol Thomas
Number of homes
164 (plus link block)
Tallest block
11 storeys
Gross development value
£24m
Princes dock, Liverpool, L3 1DL
Developer
Peel Land and Property and The Regenda Group
Builder
Vermont Construction Ltd
Architect
Hodder and Partners
Number of homes
105
Tallest block
16 storeys
Gross development value
£21m