New build handover package Quoted per plot — one handover quote

Four strands come together at practical completion. As-built energy calculations produce the EPC for each dwelling, and that certificate has to exist before the plot is marketed or let. The common parts need a fire risk assessment before occupation, because the duty under the Fire Safety Order starts the moment the building is occupied, not when the managing agent takes over. Communal fire alarm, emergency lighting and any smoke control installation need commissioning certificates and the beginning of a test log, not just an installer's invoice. And the electrical installation needs its certification set, with the distribution documented for whoever maintains it next. Missing any one of them stops the handover in practice even where it does not stop it in law.

Not because the work was not done, but because nobody owned the evidence. The M&E contractor commissioned the alarm but the certificate sat in a site folder. The energy consultant produced as-built calculations but the EPCs were never lodged. The fire risk assessment was assumed to be the managing agent's job, and the managing agent assumed it came with the building. Then a solicitor asks for an EPC reference number on a plot exchanging in four days and the whole thing becomes urgent. Instructing the handover as one package puts a single name against the evidence, and gives you a checklist that shows what is outstanding while there is still time to fix it.

Team EPC produces the as-built calculations and EPCs, and Fire Risk Specialists covers the fire and electrical side, with one coordinator assembling the pack.

We work to the completion programme rather than a fixed date. Plots are surveyed and lodged as they finish, so early phases release for sale while later ones are still being snagged. The communal fire risk assessment is timed to sit just before first occupation, since assessing an unfinished common part produces an assessment that is wrong by the time anyone lives there. Where the programme slips, the schedule moves with it — you get a revised sequence, not a cancellation charge.

As-built calculations and EPCs are priced per plot, falling with plot count, and the non-domestic elements on floor area and zones. The communal fire risk assessment is priced on floors, cores and flats, and alarm and emergency lighting work on device and luminaire counts. The whole handover is quoted in writing against your plot schedule and drawings, and the bundle sits below instructing each element separately. Where we also ran the design-stage Part L work, the as-built stage is cheaper again because the models already exist.