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STRESS has provided specialist services to the insurance industry through major loss adjusters and for most of the main insurers for more than 30 years. We have a wealth of experience dealing with regular, and sometimes challenging, subsidence and listed building claims. We pride ourselves in providing innovative solutions to difficult and unusual projects.
Historic buildings and structures are susceptible to climatic changes or accidental damage. We provide insurers with help, guidance and solutions for listed building claims.
Finding the appropriate remedial foundation improvement to support an existing structure which has suffered subsidence is an art as well as a science. There is a balance between no intervention and wasted effect, and the skill is to carry out as little remedial work as possible whilst also solving the problem, hopefully for the long term.
STRESS’s qualified engineers and decades of experience help clients save money and disruption. As a long-time member of the association of underpinning contractors all underpinning schemes come with an ASUC insurance backed guarantee.
When ground conditions permit, the technique of permeation engineering can save considerable costs and disruption so helping to satisfy both insurer and claimant. STRESS uses the well tried and tested patented ReFORCE system to underpin buildings and structures. Our geotechnical engineers design an appropriate solution and our trained technicians install the piling works to specification. The technique has proven very effective in economically and swiftly capping swallow holes.
‘The art of structural repair’. The most important thing is to design an appropriate and sympathetic remedial solution to suit the problem, the age and use of the structure. STRESS has in excess of 30 years specifying and installing remedial structural schemes to all types of edifices from dwellings to bridges, listed buildings and monuments to commercial structures. As one of Helifix’s oldest and largest approved installers we can design and install complex masonry reinforcing solutions. All approved structural repairs schemes come with an ASUC insurance backed guarantee.
Repairing heritage structures requires a different level of consideration and our in-house conservation department with their qualified staff of managers, engineers and trained craft persons ensure that our insurance clients are helped through the obstacle course of listed building consent for remedial works. We produce relevant Design & Access Statements and engage directly with Local Authority and English Heritage officers to ensure that any required works are carried out to and meet specification.
Producing elegant, relevant, practical and cost-effective solutions, particularly for complex problems which require specialist techniques often falls outside conventional approaches. STRESS’S engineers, surveyors and technical teams can assist and design unusual and often innovative methods of repair and strengthening.
