Welcome to Northen Surveying Services

A Chartered Quantity Surveying Practice, based in Bristol and Scotland, delivering expert built environment measurement services Internationally.

Location

Northen Surveying Services 1, Green Farm Business Park, Latteridge, Bristol, BS37 9TZ

About Us

Northen is a chartered surveying practice, specialists in Measurement and Quantification of construction projects. As experts in the production of detailed Bills of Quantities we can also act as an Expert Witness for quantification, measurement, and valuation of construction work. Measurement works are carried out following SMM7, NRM suite, CESMM4.

Alan Northen is the lead author of the updates to the New Rules of Measurement 2 (NRM2) for the 2nd Edition published in 2021. Training in NRM2 and measurement is available on request.

Following participation on the working group for the RICS Whole Lifecycle Carbon Assessment (WLCA ) Standard 2nd Edition. Alan is lead Author and Tutor of the 2024 RICS training course for the WLCA Standard.

Northen can deliver a whole lifecycle carbon assessment for a building. Including newbuild and refurbishment projects, in addition to preparing baseline carbon data models for existing buildings. Over the past 15 years we have carried out over 1300 projects for Major Contractors, Sub-Contractors or Clients within these sectors:


EDUCATION
Primary & Secondary Schools, Colleges, Universities & Research Facilities

HEALTHCARE
Hospitals, Health Centres, Doctors Surgeries, Dental & Veterinary Practices

RESIDENTIAL
Social and Private housing, Refurbishment, Extra Care & Retirement Homes, Student Accommodation, Heritage Conversions.

COMMERCIAL
Retail parks, Offices New and Refurbishment to CAT A & CAT B

CIVIL ENGINEERING
Highways & Infrastructure to CESMM4 and Highways method of measurement

INDUSTRIAL
Warehouses, Distribution Centres & Data Hubs

Services & Staff

Type of surveyor

  • Chartered Quantity Surveyor

Services

  • Expert witness
  • Dispute resolution
  • Quantity surveying
  • Quantity surveying (Commercial property)
  • Procurement
  • Churches
  • Healthcare
  • Repair & restoration
  • Schools & educational premises
  • Social housing

Business type

Private Practice
Commercial

Regulation

RICS Regulated Firm
This firm is regulated by RICS. Regulated firms must follow the RICS Rules of Conduct for Firms and are held to a higher standard in areas such as staff training, professional indemnity insurance, complaints handling and security of clients' money.

Partners and Directors

  • Alan Northen

Accreditations

Registered Expert Witness

  • Alan Northen

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RICS Regulated Firm
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Commercial

Firms that are Regulated by RICS commit to the highest professional and ethical standards. In the rare cases where disciplinary action has been taken against a firm, records are published online.

If you cannot find the information you are looking for, please contact RICS Regulation at regulation@rics.org. Alternatively, if you wish to make a complaint, please contact complaints@rics.org.