Robert Speirs-Ferrari BDA designer and project management is under the umbrella of Building Diagnosis Centre (BDC), specialist in coastal forensic investigations, providing independent professional engineering, architectural, and building consultancy, of coastal corrosion damaged buildings, structures, and strata units suffering poor dilapidation conditions.

Assessments include damage and defects, environmental and OHS asbestos, lead dust/paint hazardous materials; spalling concrete cancer; flaking pitting rust corrosion of steel elements; eroding masonry walls and foundations; building movements and cracking; structural timber wet rot; defective waterproofing membranes and flashings; and faulty construction and materials.

Our forensic investigations include visual and physical destructive assessments and core sample drilling into concrete and masonry construction; photographic evidence of damaged conditions and during work-in-progress construction. We provide reports.