Roger de Boehmler, BSc, FRICS, FIWFM

Background

Roger has over 40 years of experience as a chartered building surveyor and strategic facilities management consultant.  He is a building fabric expert witness for all types of built assets within most industry sectors.

Roger has extensive experience in the investigation of building defect pathology. He has prepared complex CPR35-compliant technical reports for negotiation and submission in court proceedings and for expert evidence in adjudication and arbitration hearings.  He has attended expert meetings, given evidence at mediations, and briefed legal teams on available options and remedial works.

He acts for either client or contractor on any scale of construction-related technical dispute or insurance claim.  He has managed multi-skilled inspection teams of surveyors, engineers, and other specialists. He can design mobile digital survey systems to deliver consistent data quality across large inspection teams.

Roger has extensive experience in managing and designing real property information systems and founded an estate management software business. He can design digital survey systems for mobile devices to deliver consistent data quality across any scale of estate or portfolio that requires the use of large inspection teams.

Roger is an expert in the technical appraisal of all forms of buildings and estates for condition appraisal or due diligence reporting in asset acquisition.  He has provided development monitoring on multi-million GBP construction projects on behalf of funding bodies and owners.

He is an industry expert on systems for planned maintenance, facilities management, and asset data management.  Between 2005 and 2007, he was an FM expert member of the CEN Technical Committee 348. This Committee was commissioned by CEN, the European Committee for Standardisation (Normalisation), to set FM work procurement standards for Europe.  CEN operates alongside the International Standards Organisation (ISO) and the British Standards Institution (BSI).

Roger has over 25 years of experience at the Partner or Director level within national and international property firms and has worked in the UK, Europe, the US, Asia, Australia, and Dubai, including 5 years working in Hong Kong.

Roger’s sector experience covers corporate real estate/offices, central and local government, private residential and public housing, healthcare, military, retail and banking, data centres, logistics and industrial, higher and further education, telecom and postal, railway and airports, museums and historic buildings.