
Eric Roberts
Director at Black Cat Building Consultancy in Manchester; chartered building surveyor (FRICS, ACIArb) with 40+ years' experience.
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Oct 8, 2026
What Makes a Great Surveyor? Experience, Judgement and the Future of the Profession
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Eric RobertsGUEST
Valuation, there could be two correct answers, which I thought was a load of rubbish.

Eric RobertsGUEST
But a size of a brick was the size of a brick, so I thought, "Oh, I'll do building surveying then." So I did building surveying in the last year, and then went on from there to join the PSA, which was the Property Service Agency at the time, and did all the government work.

Eric RobertsGUEST
Uh, and then I spent, uh, two and a half years at, uh, i- in the PSA working on MOD stuff, uh, DHS, stuff like that.

Eric RobertsGUEST
Uh, and so th- that was a really good, um, good grounding because, uh, they put you into different departments.

Eric RobertsGUEST
So, so, uh, and then when I finished there, uh, I was offered a job, uh, with what was called Burner Thornton Partners.
When Buildings Go Wrong | Courtrooms, Cladding & Fire Safety: Black Cat Lates Episode 02
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Eric RobertsGUEST
I think I've been to court twice on dilapidations, with the first one being Elite Investments and TI Bainbridge, which was some case in the 80s.

Eric RobertsGUEST
But the one I remember most was what was called the Texas Home Care and Balfour Beatty, which is the way they named the cases.

Eric RobertsGUEST
And so I'd given my evidence and I was there for two days so I had to go and buy a shirt because I thought I was going to be there for the first day and not the second.

Eric RobertsGUEST
So I was coming out the second day and as I'm coming out, all the press people around the entrance and they all started taking photographs.

Eric RobertsGUEST
I'm looking around, all I've done is just give evidence of the dilapidations and then as I'm walking out, I look behind me and I see Teddy Venables and Alan Sugar coming out behind me.

