About Us

Jon Evans BSc (Hons) MRICS
Founder and Director

jon.evans@heritage-surveys.com
020 8916 2212
 

Jon’s love for historic buildings and their conservation is the reason he founded the practice in 2009, having spent the years prior to that as Director and Head of the Heritage Conservation Team for a leading property consultancy in the City.

As a Chartered Building Surveyor with over 25 years’ experience in the construction industry, Jon’s primary focus is providing strategic asset management advice, project management and technical consultancy in the conservation and repair of historic buildings of all grades to his public and private sector clients. Memberships’ include:

- RICS conservation forum
- Institute of Historic Buildings Conservation (IHBC)
- Historic Houses Association (HHA)

Fostering the future of the profession is equally important to Jon. He is an Assessor for RICS for the Assessment of Professional Competence (APC) and delivers CPD seminars and presentations on building pathology and building conservation.

Specialisms:

• Project management and contract administration
• Design and specification including management of the design team
• Carrying out quadrennial and quinquennial inspections
• Preparing listed building consent and planning applications
• Consultation and liaison with statutory authorities, including Historic England and Royal Parks
• Undertaking archival research into historic buildings
• Leading forensic defect investigations, utilising non-destructive techniques

Steve Brewer BSc MRICS
Director

steve.brewer@heritage-surveys.com
020 8916 2213
 

With a career spanning more than 35 years, Steve is a Chartered Building Surveyor focusing on the aspirations and care of his public and private sector clients’ commercial property assets.

With experience on projects ranging in value up to £56 million, and twelve years in a Lead Director role for a well-known property consultancy in the City, he joined Heritage Surveys in 2013 to enable the practice to diversify and offer the full complement of building surveying, lead consultancy and project management services, including Employer’s Agent. Steve is now heading up their healthcare sector, which focuses on project management and lead consultancy services for a number of NHS Trusts and PFI SPVs.

Steve is passionate about stakeholder involvement, which is key when buildings are occupied and in use. From inception to completion, he engages with all stakeholders to ensure their needs are considered. This extends to working with multi-disciplinary teams on complex projects, whereby Steve takes a hands-on role in managing this process to ensure successful project delivery.

Specialisms:

• Lead consultancy, design specification and contract administration
• Project management
• Project recovery – guidance and support for underperforming projects
• Defects, condition and planned maintenance building surveys
• Feasibility studies and options appraisals
• Statutory approvals
• Compliance, quality and clerk of works site inspections