Inspection at Matilda Street

On the 10th Jun 2014, I had assigned to carry out a site inspection on subject property at Matilda Street with my group-mates to investigate the property. It is took about 5 minutes walking distance to the subject property from Sheffield Hallam University. The equipment that had been used to assist us during the inspection are measuring tape, laser tape measure and mobile phone to take photos. The property was used as a storage and it is unoccupied with unfurnished. It is an adjoining land that surrounded by commercial property. The building has consists 3 levels, the ground floor is use as storage, first floor is empty and some fixture and the second floor is an office space with lots of interval. There is an empty land which uses as parking spaces for the building.

The furniture was store at the first floor

The interior of first floor

The random wiring on the floor

From the pictures have shown that the danger of the building due to the disorderly of furniture where the student is hard to walk through for inspection and may harm to the person who inside the building. Not only that, the random of wiring also danger to the student as well. It may causes the student fall down or electric shock if the electric isn't switch off. 

The stripped staircase carpet

The wall crack

The growth of mould on the ceiling 

The deterioration of ceiling board

The cement falls from the ceiling

Through the pictures have shown that the building is in poor condition due to no reparation work carry out. Yet, the causes of defects were unknown due to lack of knowledge on building and we only able to inspect the interior of building for once that we couldn't carry out detail inspection. Luckily is we do have Building Pathology subject in our course and thus we able to inspect the subject building again and our lecturer, Mr. Richard was explained about the defect causes which enable us to understand more. 

Please feel free visit my padlet wall about my propose office building in Matilda Street: http://padlet.com/Hazelyq/k29vhs4drusl