CONSULTANCY & DESIGN

St Blaise has long been recognised for innovation, understanding and extensive experience. Our advice and experience is respected and sought after. We are members of the Heritage Buildings Contractors Group The HBCG and work as “Consultant Contractors”

We write detailed and precise Specifications of Workmanship and Materials, and Quantified Schedules of Work or Bills of Quantities on specific and complex elements of work for inclusion in tender documentation Testimonials Edinburgh Castle Prior Park

Pre-contract surveys, recording, opening up, trials, samples, and cost assessments are critical to the success of most contracts. One good sample pre-contract can save thousands of words of subjective prose in the specification or wasteful trials during the programme. A degree of cost certainty is imperative to happy contracting and St Blaise has a keen interest in time and motion studies Eton College

St Blaise believes in non-destructive investigation and uses techniques as diverse as impulse radar Temple Bar thermal mapping and imaging, photogrammetry and ultrasonics. We analyse many building materials Rose of Jericho and possess a sound grasp of decay mechanisms and their amelioration

We have considerable knowledge of traditional detailing, construction and regional variations. We design extensively; we are trained draughtsmen and AutoCad literate. We work up our own shop drawings, templets and rods. Equally we interpret loose design intents, design, draw, and build them into reality. We have designed and built follies from scratch Reeves Mews

St Blaise understands Historic Buildings, their repair and conservation. Our staff is trained to examine all problems in both isolation and context. They will ask the question “Why do anything?” Making use of St Blaise’s experience saves money and saves historic fabric

WE “LISTEN” TO HISTORIC BUILDINGS