Technical peer review and support to legal teams.
A technical report answers the question it was asked. It does not tell you what it proves, what it does not prove, what it assumes, or where its assumptions conflict with the report next to it in the file. That is the work, and it is usually the difference between a set of documents and a position.
The work
Three kinds of instruction
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Peer review
We peer review FRAEWs, fire strategies, structural appraisals, safety case material and remediation proposals against the methodology each was produced under, citing the clause, step or annex relied on. For an external wall appraisal that means the edition of PAS 9980 it was produced under, and the guidance on review of reports at Annex B of the 2026 edition. The test is whether the document supports the conclusion it reaches, not whether another approach exists, and what it evidences is recorded alongside what it does not.
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Support to legal teams
Counsel or a solicitor holds several technical reports produced for other purposes, at different times, on different assumptions. We identify what each document actually proves, what it does not prove, what it assumes, where the assumptions conflict, what is evidenced and what is inference, and what technical position can be supported on the material as it stands. Where the position needs evidence that does not yet exist, we say so plainly and say what would produce it.
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Standing technical support, on retainer
Some legal teams want a technical adviser on call rather than a report. We read incoming expert and technical material as it lands, give a same-week view on what it does and does not establish, sit in on conferences, and help with the technical content of correspondence, requests for information and instructions to other experts. It is an in-house technical function the firm does not have to carry, available when it is needed and dormant when it is not.
This work arises on remediation contribution orders, First-tier Tribunal applications, warranty claims, Defective Premises Act matters, enforcement appeals and Improvement Notice responses. In each, technical material becomes usable in a legal and commercial context, and the legal team takes strategy decisions knowing which technical ground is firm and which is not.
Retainer or instruction
A retainer suits a team carrying several live matters with a technical thread running through them. A single instruction suits one matter with a defined question. Tell us which you are dealing with and we will say which is the cheaper way to get the answer.
Need a clear position from complex building safety evidence?
Send us the reports, the issue and the decision you need to make. We will tell you whether the evidence supports the position, what remains uncertain and what a proportionate next step looks like.