In 2005, Property Technologies celebrated 20 years of engineering excellence. Since 1985, we have provided a personalised service in the building services engineering field to a client base consisting of developers, architects, builders and owners. We have constantly evolved with the industry and always strive to stay on the cutting edge.

In early 1999, our senior management realised that changes within the traditional construction industry design system had occurred. The traditional in-house client project group had downsized radically and the focus of this group was changed. Traditionally used to review and cross check Architectural, Structural, Civil and Services Engineers drawings, the focus of the in-house design team was now on providing improved design briefs.

Coincidental with the change in management focus came major improvements in data and drawing transfer through the internet. Principally all consultants now simply take the architects' base drawings as electronic drawings and place their designs over them. Often there is now no fully co-ordinated drawing review process in place.

In 2000, this new focus for the industry caused Property Technologies to review the way they approached projects. A new 5 year plan to upgrade the disciplines carried out within the practice, and to provide a full in-house team that could cover all disciplines was put into place. Our belief was that this would allow our own in-house coordination, thus achieving fully coordinated services engineering drawings, removing inaccuracies and minimising construction variations.

At the end of 2005, we were proud to announce that we had achieved our 5 year goal. We now have a fully operational in-house design team covering all services disciplines.