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SurvPal is the party wall industry’s best kept secret!

"My strength and passion are to get out of the office and do party wall surveying, not to sit behind a desk copy and pasting legal documents! That’s not what I trained for!"
Jean-Pierre Panchaud, Founder of SurvPal

The Evolution of SurvPal

This is the story of a party wall surveyor who resented the admin overwhelm, stress and feeling out of control, and decided to create a software solution to enable him to enjoy life whilst building a successful business, serving his owners, earning a great income AND growing a team!

SurvPal was created by Jean-Pierre Panchaud MRICS FFPWS, a London based party wall Surveyor. The idea was developed from a basic spreadsheet set up to make notice generation and owner contact storage easier.

Over time, the spreadsheet evolved into SurvPal – a highly valuable, stress-reducing software solution.

SurvPal has saved Jean-Pierre and his team countless hours of admin. It has helped him feel more organised and in control of his workload, so he no longer wakes up in the night worrying about whether he’s missed any statutory deadlines!

With years of party wall experience, at SurvPal we know what works and how to simplify our processes. Alongside this, our continual development by a professional software company, intensive testing and huge investment, SurvPal is officially the party wall industry’s best kept secret!

It has been used in house since 2013 by our sister companies, Stanley & Strong and Stanley Associates.

Plus, we have organically grown our user base through word of mouth. Many of our users have been with us since the beginning and have experienced the time, dedication and attention to detail given to SurvPal’s comprehensive development to ensure its purpose suits a wide range of company structures.

At SurvPal, we believe in functionality and ease of use. Saving time, money and stress is at the heart of what we do and we’re confident that once youʼve tried Survpal, youʼll never go back.

For this reason, we offer a free 3-month unlimited trial (see below for more details).

Itʼs time for you to have more time and less stress so you can focus on the bits of your life and business that you enjoy!

SurvPal in Jean-Pierre’s life:

SurvPal has literally changed my work and personal life, and I wouldn’t be where I am today without it!

Developing SurvPal has enabled me to grow my team of surveyors and admin support. By following the methodical flow, even my team members without prior party wall knowledge have quickly become proficient in the party wall process.

It’s allowed me to take on more party wall jobs and enjoy a higher turnover. I feel more organised and we have more fun in the office! We work hard but we have less stress because we can instantly pinpoint where any owner is within the process and are able to have quick job review meetings.

My working day feels less mundane because the documents are automatically generated and don’t take me hours of copy, pasting and quadruple checking. Plus, I have less sleepless nights because I have peace of mind that everything is under control and I know my team is generating documentation to a consistently high quality.

Over the past few years, in my personal life, SurvPal has allowed me greater freedom to spend more time out of the office to collect my children from school, for my morning running group and to oversee my own home renovations. I’ve also enjoyed extended working holidays visiting family overseas because SurvPal and my experienced team give me full trust that everything is in order back at the office and on site!

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What other party wall surveyors say about working with us:

SurvPal has many time saving elements and it’s a rock-solid platform. There are no glitches. It just works and that’s what I like about it. My PA had no prior knowledge of the party wall process, and she didn’t even know what it was. In a matter of weeks, it was very easy for her to understand the whole process. The owner notes function is really useful so I can see a log of the phone conversations she’s had while I’ve been out of the office. My favourite feature is that you enter the owner details only once, that’s it! And the fact that you can connect a lot of adjoining owners to one building owner. With other systems, I’ve found that I could only deal with one matter at a time and every matter had its own account, which was ridiculous!
Darryl Miller
Darryl MillerRellim Surveyors
The software is very easy to use. It saves me a couple of hours on every award I generate, and it makes it so much easier to put together awards. I use SurvPal for the full party wall process and it’s great to get email reminders when S10(4) is required. They come through reliably at the right time and I haven’t missed one yet. My favourite feature is the award settings and automation. It’s a huge help being able to select the different clauses to include in each award. Putting together notices is simple and easy to do, and I enjoy the time saving element. Our main business is architectural work and the party wall side is a separate part of the company. SurvPal makes us more efficient because we know where all the jobs are from the tracking flags and I can easily update the owners. Everything is there and there aren’t any additional features I need. I use all the standard SurvPal templates provided. It definitely saves money in terms of my hourly rate and SurvPal has made our office more efficient and profitable. When we first started using SurvPal we were finishing projects earlier than anticipated and now we have time to get more clients through the door. The architectural side is faster now we’re not spending as long on party wall work. We’re still in the office for the same amount of time each day but can do so much more other work and spend more time on the company tendering for bigger developments. I definitely recommend trying it, just to see how much time it saves!
Carl Pringle
Carl PringlePringle Design
I have complete trust in SurvPal. I’ve been using it for a while now and I find it reliable and robust. There was a little gremlin in it a year or so ago. The support team was already aware of the issue and it was fixed straight away. The support offered to users is good. When I first joined, I was very impressed with it for setting up notices and awards, managing a project and how efficient the software is for merging the job information accurately into documents. I was really, really impressed! I’m confident that the information in awards is accurate. It’s saving me considerable amounts of time. The award saves significant time (approx. 2/3 hours). It’s the same for notices and the time savings (approx. 50%) are more significant when a job has multiple owners. I can easily navigate myself through SurvPal from the notice stage to the award. I find that when it comes to technology, I do embrace it but at the same time I don’t! However, SurvPal is simple to use with regards to setting up a new job with a number of different adjoining owners. SurvPal enables me to create more balance to my work.
Giles Lewis
Giles LewisGiles Lewis & Co.
My favourite feature is the flag system because I can clearly see the steps throughout the party wall process and it helps me identify the actions required. I don't see a need for any additional features now as SurvPal does everything I need it to do. The awards generation definitely saves me a lot of time. SurvPal arguably halves the time. It’s a case of inputting the owner information only once and then pressing a button to download it. Having to copy and paste the details would drastically increase the time. I couldn’t do party wall work without it! I need SurvPal to be able to keep an organised workflow. My boss has seen what it's capable of and how quickly I can turn around party wall jobs. If I need to suddenly go out on site, I can easily pick up the party wall admin when I’m back in the office. SurvPal is fluid like that. It streamlines the party wall process and just makes my life a little easier. It makes it more of a stress-free workflow!
Louis Mathieson
Louis MathiesonEllis Belk Associates
My team of party wall surveyors has grown with SurvPal over the last 6 years. Without it would have meant slower growth and a lot more headaches! As more surveyors joined our team, it made sense to use something more automated. There are various software solutions out there for party walls, but we’ve found that SurvPal is the better one. Every time you generate an award, you get a clean document with no copy and pasting and no mistakes. The worry of getting everything right (punctuation, pronouns etc.) has gone. SurvPal takes the stress out. I can generate a Letter of Appointment within 5 minutes and notices within 15 minutes, which has cut the time in half and is great for urgent jobs. SurvPal has saved us a considerable amount of money when accounting for the time savings it gives. It saves you time so you can get other work done and you get to go home on time rather than fiddling around with copy and pasting documents. I’ve trained our new surveyors using SurvPal and within a short time they’re proficient with the process and the software. SurvPal regulates and keeps our documentation consistent across the company. It doesn’t matter which surveyor’s using it. If there’s a problem with the job, it’s not down to the documentation. SurvPal is definitely a tool to use.
Paul Williamson
Paul WilliamsonFirst for Party Wall Surveyors
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