Rachel Atherton

Expertise

Rachel is a senior structural engineer employed as a consultant as part of the engineering team, to assist with private, domestic and commercial clients. She works on 80% of instructions that come from the insurance sector. The latter covering all types of perils including fire, storm, subsidence, impact, landslide, accidental damage and explosion and the likes. Private work covers new design and alterations together with report writing for structural defects in relation to property acquisition to gain a mortgage or similar and inspections on general structural matters. Rachel also assists with structural advice to a utility company on a framework agreement as part of the Northern Engineering team’s responsibilities.

Rachel has various experience across local authority, design practice and private consultant fields bridging a span of over 30 years.

How do you help clients?

I assist insurance clients with causations where they can be pinpointed, with recommendations of further investigations and/ or repairs where applicable.

I assist clients as a secondary role on insurance claims where structural advice is required for reports and/ or on site with regards to my colleagues who may be building surveyors or architects.

I help clients pursue property purchases with unbiased structural reports outlining structural defects or issues and recommend any further investigations, other advice and/or recommendations for repairs and the likes.

I advise clients on structural alterations whether they are a part of renovations or new builds in conjunction with other construction professionals and/ or independently.

I assist with structural inspections as pre-works, interim and post works surveys along with providing advice in line with the framework agreement.