Background to Backlog

Backlog is the cost to bring estate assets that are below an acceptable standard in terms of their physical condition or do not comply with mandatory fire safety requirements and statutory safety legislation (as they apply to the built environment) up to an acceptable condition.

Canty Young Associates as main contributing authors to the NHS Estates standard 'A risk-based methodology for establishing and managing backlog' are recognised as having authoritative expertise in 6 Facet Property Appraisals and Risk Management. With our extensive knowledge and experience in these areas, we are ideally placed to take Property Appraisal, incorporating the risk assessed backlog methodology, forward into the new era.

The survey methodology used in the document is based on systems which have been established for some years now and used extensively by ourselves and adopted by others when carrying out property appraisals.  In order to determine the validity of the risk assessed backlog methodology we have surveyed properties using the methodology with good results, providing an improved level of information to the Trusts involved.

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