Webinar
The race to the bottom: The high cost of cheap building assessments
Why measurement beats assumption in both retrofit assessments and new build inspections. In the bid to deliver energy efficiency upgrades and heat pump installations at scale, the built environment faces a quiet crisis: a race to the bottom on price. Retrofit assessments and building inspections are increasingly being squeezed into cheap, rapid, compliance-driven tick-box exercises. But when we slash the cost of data, who actually wins?
The reality is: no one. Low-cost, basic assessments tend to rely heavily on default look-up values, basic visual inspections on site alongside desktop based guesswork. They overlook the true performance of a building and its services, leading to misguided specifications, incorrectly sized heat pumps, failed retrofits, unexpected delivery costs, and massive long-term liabilities.
Join Build Test Solutions for this month's webinar, where we tackle this industry problem head-on and make the definitive case for evidence over assumptions.
Using real-world case studies spanning deep retrofits, heat pump rollouts, and heritage properties, we will demonstrate the undeniable commercial and practical value of actual thermal performance measurement. We’ll show you how spending a bit more upfront to measure saves thousands down the line.
In this session, we will cover:
- The True Cost of 'Cheap': Why low-cost, basic inspections create hidden liabilities for housing associations, landlords, installers, and project teams.
- Assumption vs. Evidence: Frontline case studies where physical measurement exposed critical performance gaps left entirely undetected by standard assessments.
- De-risking the Delivery: How embedding measurement early protects your budget, your margins, and your professional reputation.
- Shifting the Value Proposition: How to articulate the commercial value of physical measurement to clients who are conditioned to buy the cheapest compliance option.
Whether you are a social landlord, private landlord, developer, surveyor, retrofit professional, or heat pump installer, this session will arm you with the arguments - and the evidence - you need to move beyond reactive fixes and champion true, measured performance assurance.
