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001 / Practice

Independent building surveyor for London and the South East.

Dominic Bowkett is a one-person practice based in Hartfield, East Sussex. Building surveys, Energy Performance Certificates and PAS 2035 retrofit assessments — for homeowners, landlords and small developers across Kent, Sussex, Surrey and London. Written plainly, priced up front, walked, measured and signed by the surveyor on the cover.

07946 618203 info@dominicbowkett.com
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002 / Practice

A small independent practice.

One surveyor, working with homeowners, landlords and small developers. Every report I deliver is one I’ve walked, measured, written and signed — no juniors, no template-and-tweak, no white-label sub-contracting. Email is the best way to reach me; if you ring, your call is answered, your details taken, and I’ll ring you back the same day.

Fees are fixed and agreed up front. Reports are written in plain English. The post-survey call to talk through findings is included in the fee, not extra. The practice is fully insured and DBS checked.

More about the practice →

Dominic Bowkett, building surveyor
Dominic Bowkett — Building Surveyor, ACABE, MRPSA
003 / Memberships

Member of the bodies that set the standards.

Each of these does a specific job for a client. Between them they say who has checked my competence, whose survey standards I work to, which schemes license and audit my energy and retrofit work, and where you can go if you are unhappy with something I have done.

Chartered Association of Building Engineers — associate member

Chartered Association of Building Engineers

Associate Member — ACABE

CABE is the professional body for building engineers and surveyors. Associate membership is granted on assessed evidence of qualifications and practical competence, and is conditional on keeping to the association’s code of conduct and logging continuing professional development each year. ACABE is the designation after my name on every report.

Residential Property Surveyors Association

Residential Property Surveyors Association

Member — MRPSA

The RPSA is the trade body for residential surveyors specifically. It writes the survey products I deliver — the Home Condition Survey, Building Survey, Home Insight Survey and Buy to Let Survey — sets the practice standards behind them, and requires members to hold professional indemnity cover.

The Property Ombudsman

The Property Ombudsman

Member — RPSA surveys

An independent redress scheme. If you are unhappy with an RPSA survey and my own complaints procedure has not resolved it, you can take the matter to the Ombudsman free of charge and have it looked at by someone with no connection to me. Details are on the complaints page.

TrustMark — Government Endorsed Quality

TrustMark

Registered — Retrofit Assessor

TrustMark is the Government-endorsed quality scheme for work carried out in and around the home. I’m registered with it as a Retrofit Assessor, so PAS 2035 assessments are lodged through the scheme and the work sits under its audit regime — a requirement on most government-funded retrofit.

Elmhurst Energy — approved energy assessor

Elmhurst Energy

Registered — Energy & Retrofit Assessor

Elmhurst is one of the government-approved accreditation schemes that license energy assessors. I’m registered with them as both a Domestic Energy Assessor and a Retrofit Assessor — the accreditation that lets an EPC be lodged on the national register, and that puts my certificates under their quality-assurance sampling.

ECMK — accredited member

ECMK

Accredited — Energy & Retrofit Assessor

ECMK is a second accreditation scheme I’m registered with, again as a Domestic Energy Assessor and a Retrofit Assessor. Holding accreditation with more than one scheme means an EPC or a retrofit assessment can be lodged through whichever route a project, funder or client requires.

004 / Endorsed

Endorsed by Which? Trusted Traders.

Dominic Bowkett is endorsed as a Building Surveyor and Retrofit Assessor through the Which? Trusted Traders scheme — independently assessed against the scheme’s standards. Energy Performance Certificates are not covered by the endorsement.

Which? Trusted Trader — endorsed business
005 / Reviews

What clients say.

Which? Trusted Traders 5.0 Google 5.0 Checkatrade 10 / 10

“Same-day EPC, sold my flat”

“I needed this done urgently as I’m selling my flat and Dom came out the same day and completed and logged the assessment. Communication was excellent and he was very respectful and efficient.”

Lynne W · BN1Checkatrade · Jun 2026

“Turned it around in a day”

“Dom turned it around within one day of calling him. Professional, friendly and reliable — 5 stars! Cheers Dom!”

Sam PGoogle · 2026

“Friendly, efficient and helpful”

“Dom was great. He was incredibly polite and respectful and good with our dogs. He completed the task super quickly and was very patient in answering all our questions.”

Customer in West SussexWhich? Trusted Traders · Jul 2026

“Fully recommend Dominic / EMS-2”

“Dominic was great and very professional from start to finish. My enquiry was picked up quickly, and contact was made on the same day. Work was carried out efficiently, my tenant was also happy with the service. I would fully recommend Dominic / EMS-2 Ltd.”

Mark M · TN9Checkatrade · Feb 2026

“Excellent from enquiry to completion”

“Excellent service from initial enquiry to job completion. Fast and efficient service, very pleased.”

Adam JonesGoogle · 2026

“Extremely professional”

“Dominic is extremely professional. He responds very quickly and is very polite. I highly recommend him.”

Sandra G · CR0Checkatrade · Mar 2026

Every review is held on an independent platform — read them all on Which? Trusted Traders, Google and Checkatrade.

006 / Services

Eight lines of work, all delivered personally.

001 Building surveys RPSA Home Buyer/Condition, Building and Buy-to-Let Surveys, plus new-build snagging inspections. Roof to drains, illustrated, plain English. Particular focus on listed and traditionally-built stock. → 002 HomeBuyer survey The mid-level Level 2 survey — the RPSA Home Condition Survey — for modern, conventional homes in reasonable order. Every element rated 1–3, photographed, plain English, with a surveyor debrief. The right survey for most buyers. → 003 Home Insight Survey A seller’s pre-marketing survey your buyer and their solicitor can rely on — Level 3-standard condition plus conveyancing, environmental and climate-change risk. Cuts fall-throughs. From £700. → 004 Buy to Let Survey The RPSA landlord survey — a full condition report plus a tenant health-and-safety review against all 29 HHSRS hazard profiles, with a separate DASH hazard review. EPC produced on the same visit. → 005 Drone roof surveys Aerial roof inspections by a surveyor and CAA-registered drone pilot. Chimneys, valleys, flashings and gutters photographed close up — no scaffold, no ladders — with a plain-English condition report. → 006 Energy Performance Certificates Domestic EPCs produced under RdSAP and lodged on the central register. Certificates usually ready the same day as the visit. → 007 Retrofit assessments PAS 2035:2023-compliant assessments. Whole Dwelling, Occupancy, Condition & Risk, Improvement Plan. Fabric-first for older buildings. → 008 Ventilation testing Domestic background ventilation testing as part of retrofit. All system types measured with a Testo 417 anemometer, so airflow keeps pace with the fabric work. →
007 / Coverage

Kent, Sussex, Surrey and London.

  • TN
  • RH
  • ME
  • DA
  • BR
  • SE
  • E
  • RM
  • KT
  • CR
  • SM
  • BN

Tunbridge Wells · Sevenoaks · Tonbridge · Maidstone · Ashford · Canterbury · Hastings · Eastbourne · Brighton · South East London boroughs.

Outside that radius and the job is right? Get in touch.

008 / Accreditations

Memberships, certifications and scheme registrations.

ACABE Associate
RPSA Member
TrustMark Registered
Elmhurst Energy
Quidos Energy
ECMK Scheme
PAS 2035 Retrofit
CertDEA Domestic
MEP Tester
AET Teaching
CAVA Assessing
009 / Software

Founder — iCalendar.app

I also build the booking software I use to run this practice.

Surveying is a driving job. Two appointments can sit an hour apart on paper and be impossible in practice. Every booking tool I tried only asked whether the diary was empty — never whether I could actually get there. So I built one that does.

iCalendar.app checks real driving times before it offers a client a slot — around the day’s existing jobs, the school run and being home for dinner. It takes card payments, raises the invoice and logs the mileage for the tax return. It runs my own diary, and it’s now used by other surveyors, energy assessors and mobile trades.

icalendar.app →

🚗 24 min drive — fits your route
app.icalendar.app/book/your-name
Property Survey — 60 min
📍 Client in Tunbridge Wells · 24 min drive
✓ 08:00 hidden — you can’t get there from your 7:30 school run. 16:30 hidden — you’d miss dinner.
💷 Paid & invoiced automatically
iCalendar.app — client booking page. Only the times the surveyor can genuinely drive to are offered.
010 / Industry

Co-Director — EPC Near Me

I’m a co-director of EPC-NEARME.

Most people needing an Energy Performance Certificate have no way of telling an accredited assessor from a call centre. EPC Near Me fixes that: enter a postcode and you get the assessors who genuinely cover that town — each one accredited, insured and DBS checked.

Behind the directory sits the trade side of it: town-by-town listings for assessors, CPD courses, and a free tool for looking up a property’s existing certificate on the national register. The company is EPC-NEARME Limited, company no. 14102285.

epc-nearme.co.uk →

The EPC Near Me homepage: a postcode search headed ‘Find an EPC Near Me Assessor’, with accredited, insured and DBS-checked badges.
epc-nearme.co.uk — enter a postcode, get the accredited assessors who cover that town.
011 / Training

Trainer & Assessor — Energy Trust

I train and assess the next intake of energy and retrofit assessors.

At Energy Trust I train and assess candidates qualifying as Domestic Energy Assessors and Retrofit Assessors — teaching the course, then assessing the portfolios and site work that decide whether someone is signed off to practise. Several hundred students so far, in the classroom and over Zoom.

Training keeps the day job honest. Explaining RdSAP conventions or a PAS 2035 risk assessment to a room of people who will be inspecting real houses next month is the fastest way to find the gaps in your own reasoning.

I hold the Level 3 Award in Education and Training (AET) and the Level 3 Certificate in Assessing Vocational Achievement (CAVA).

energy-trust.co.uk →

The Energy Trust homepage: ‘Find The Right Course For You — browse our selection of energy and retrofit training courses’.
energy-trust.co.uk — the training centre whose energy and retrofit courses I teach and assess on.
012 / Writing

Selected writing.

001 Do listed buildings need an Energy Performance Certificate? May 2026 · The widely-held belief that listed buildings are exempt from EPCs is a misreading of a narrow rule. A surveyor’s plain-English guide. →

All writing →

013 / Contact

Tell me about the property and I’ll come back the same day.

Postcode, age, what you’re trying to do. You’ll have a fixed fee, a date and a clear scope inside one working day — usually within hours.

info@dominicbowkett.com
07946 618203

Mon–Fri · 08:00–18:00 · Hartfield, East Sussex