About Us

Chartered Building Surveyors

Record Associates is a Shropshire based firm of Chartered Building Surveyors, Project Managers and Development Consultants which specialises in providing property and construction expertise both regionally and nationally across the Residential, Commercial and Public Sectors.

Our Vision is Simple… To provide high quality cost effective advice and excellent client service using our diverse property skills, experience and expertise.

Our priority is our customers so no matter whether you are a private homeowner or the representative of a large organisation you will receive the same high standard of professional service and advice.

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Reasons to choose us

Using our hard won knowledge and experience, Record Associates, are able to advise clients on a range of Construction Project Management skills and disciplines across the whole project lifecycle including:

We are an independent firm of Chartered Building Surveyors and Project Managers who are regulated by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
All services are Director led with over 20 yrs experience in practice.

Partnership and collaboration lies at the very heart of our services. We believe that working with clients to understand issues, develop insight and generate solutions brings the best results.
We strive to deliver a service that we would wish to receive ourselves. That means…

We strive to deliver a service that we would wish to receive ourselves

That means…

Understanding what is required
Being responsive
Providing a personal touch focused on good communication
Communicating in plain English
Highlighting key issues and offering simple, concise advice with pragmatic solutions

Record Associates is owned and managed by Julian Record, a Chartered Building Surveyor & Chartered Project Manager and former Partner at Drivers Jonas. Julian has in excess of 20 years experience as a building surveyor, project manager and real estate advisor within the residential, commercial and public sectors having worked for WSP Group in their residential building surveying department before joining Drivers Jonas in 1999 and Deloitte in 2010 where Julian developed his passion for property and the built environment notably sustainable development, strategy, the implementation of best practice and development of innovative solutions. Julian is also a regular author for JCT News.

Our Building Surveyors cover a broad geographic area which includes Shropshire, Mid Wales, the North West, East Midlands and West Midlands and all the town and cities including Welshpool, Shrewsbury, Chester, Telford, Wolverhampton, Manchester, Birmingham, Coventry, Nottingham, Derby and Leicester – though we have taken on larger co

Recent Projects

Miscellaneous Instructions | Expert Witness

All our expert witness instructions are undertaken by Julian Record, a Chartered Building Surveyor and Chartered Project Manager with over 20 years’ experience in project management and general building consultancy across the public and private sectors.

Wesley House | Construction Project Management & Architectural Design

Record Associates were appointed by Via Property Development Ltd to provide Architectural Design and Construction Project Management services in connection with the conversion of this former Methodist Chapel into 12 apartments extending to approximately 780 sq.m.

Aberclay Finance | Development Monitoring and Due Diligence

Record Associates have been appointed to monitor three housing developments on behalf of the funder, Aberclay Finance. The developments comprise 13 units in North Shropshire, 20 units in Worcestershire and the conversion of 5 listed barns in Oxfordshire

All projects

I’d like to thank you for all your hard work and commitment facilitating our move to Baskerville House which, given the complicated structuring of the leases and phasing of the works to accommodate the changes to our organisation, was by no means straight forward. Overall we are extremely pleased with the end result, which was achieved at great value for money and with excellent client service.

Tim Manson | Director of Operations Marketing Birmingham TESTIMONIALS

Thankyou for the Schedule of Condition you produced which was extremely comprehensive, well laid out and flagged more issues than we were aware. It will certainly protect us from having to address these issues ourselves at lease termination!

We were particularly pleased with your advice on the fit out of the space and how the layout should be changed to suit the growing needs of our business, provide better space utilisation, ventilation and natural light.

Julian Smout | Managing Director, Verve Graphic Design and Marketing TESTIMONIALS

Hi Julian, My apologies I thought that I had sent an email already to thank you. I will be recommending you to others and can I thank you very much for your professionalism and the in depth report. It has made the whole process so much easier and we now have a ‘bible’ of things to do!
We are looking forward to now completing on the property, With very best wishes Louisa

Louisa Allison-Bergin TESTIMONIALS

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