Specialist, tailored support

At Podium, we specialise in Building Safety, providing expert services backed by a comprehensive approach to quality and professional standards. With focus on continuous improvement and commitment to using appropriately trained personnel for every project, our service ensures expert guidance tailored to the unique needs of each client.

The team at Podium is collaborative and highly responsive, with senior members involved in every project.  The recent addition of Rosie Sonnenschein to the team, a Chartered Architect with extensive building safety experience, has further enhanced our expertise in this area.

We are an RICS-regulated firm. Additional certifications, such as ISO 9001 for quality management and ISO 14001 for environmental management, reflect our dedication to industry best practice. We have achieved Constructionline, SSIP, and Alcumus Safe Supplier accreditations demonstrating our adherence to high safety standards, ensuring our clients receive reliable and compliant Building Safety services.

Podium operates in the following areas of building safety

  • Cladding desk top assessment
  • Cladding intrusive surveys and reports, including all builders work in connection
  • General fire safety advice
  • Structural surveys
  • Compartmentation surveys and reports
  • Fire door inspections and reports
  • Production of building safety case reports

  • Principal Designer (Higher Risk Buildings) including building control applications
  • Registration of Higher Risk Buildings
  • Resident Engagement Strategies
  • Design and Contract Administration of remedial works for Building Safety
  • Golden Thread information review and co-ordination

Stuart Buckley, Partner

BSc (Hons) MRICS MIFSM

07713 508 238


Stuart is a chartered building surveyor who has worked in the building industry for the past 39 years. He uses his experience on large and complex projects to ensure all projects are finished to a high standard, meet the clients’ needs, are within budget and are completed to programme.

Jason Paine, Partner

BSc (Hons) MRICS AaPS

07818 443 245


As a Partner, Jason specialises in the role of employer’s agent on new build social housing schemes on both infill sites and estate regeneration schemes; and administration of improvement works to existing housing stock.

Rosie Sonnenschein, Senior Project Manager

BA(Hons) M.Arch PGDip ARB RIBA

07955 265 226


Rosie is a Chartered Architect with experience in master-planning, housing, sustainable design, project management, and building safety. She joined Podium in 2024 to assist the team with existing projects and to develop new building safety services for clients.

Building safety projects

Podium Surveying provided Lead Designer, Contract Administrator and Principal Designer services for a housing provider on this significant refurbishment and external wall insulation remediation project in Aldershot, Hampshire, with the scheme completed in October 2023.
The Boardwalk Directors Ltd appointed Podium Surveying to conduct a cladding review on six residential buildings in Sovereign Harbour, Eastbourne. The Boardwalk is a development of six leasehold residential buildings, managed by Fell Reynolds on behalf of the Leaseholders.
For a leading Registered Provider, a Podium Surveying was appointed to assess the construction and build-up of the external wall system on a residential building in Hackney, London.