01 Paris
Bernard Avava
Chartered surveyor
Surveys signed1 240
The house behind it.
Surveyors, archivists, photographers and the people who keep the register honest.
Plate 01 Who answers for it Signatories 01 — 03
0610122018302440
Signed by hand.
Three people carry the clause: the founder who wrote it and the two partners who have never let it be amended.
Clause 01 — 1998
“I have never signed a survey I had not walked myself.”
B. Avava Founder · Paris · 1998
Est. 1998 Paris
Signatories03
Combined years58
AmendmentsNone
02 Paris
Hélène Marchal
Head of survey
Surveys signed610
03 London
Julian Reed
Head of archive
Surveys signed380
Drawing
Leadership plate
Sheet
01 of 06
Scale
1:1 · 2440 mm
Filed
Paris · 05.09.2026
Plate 02 One firm, measured across Drawing 02 / 06 · rev. C
Seventy-five people, one span.
The whole firm drawn as a single dimension. Each segment is a discipline, measured against the same overall length.
Overall — 75 people · 100 %
41
Advisory
12
Val.
9
7
6
01530456075
0141 people54.7 %
Advisory
The advisor who takes your first call signs the last page with you.
One city each · 41 desks0212 people16.0 %
Valuation
Measured on site, priced against three thousand filed surveys.
Every home visited twice039 people12.0 %
Legal
Counsel drafts the clause here and sits with the notary at signing.
Clause never amended047 people9.3 %
Design & Media
Daylight only, a fixed lens list, no removed radiators.
Two photographers056 people8.0 %
Operations
The archive, the register and the keys are kept in one room.
3 300 files indexedSum 75 · checkedNothing outsourced · Paris, London, New York
Plate 03 Five sheets in every file Docket 03 / 06
Every home arrives as a file.
Five sheets, signed in order. The last one is the only part a buyer usually sees.
Sheet 01Day 0 — 1
Intake
One advisor takes the house, walks it once and writes the brief in their own words.
OutputWritten brief
Signed byLead advisor
Advisory
Sheet 02Day 2 — 9
Survey & valuation
Measured on site, priced against comparable files already in the archive.
OutputMeasured plan
Signed byValuer
Valuation
Sheet 03Day 10 — 13
Photography
Two mornings of daylight, a fixed lens list and a plan drawn to scale.
Output40 frames
Signed byArt desk
Design & Media
Sheet 04Day 14 — 19
Legal check
Title, charges and permissions read line by line. Nine in a hundred stop here.
OutputTitle report
Signed byCounsel
Legal
Sheet 05Day 20 — 21
Filed
Publication
Numbered, bound into the archive and released to the register at nine.
OutputRegister entry
Signed byArchivist
Operations
Median 21 daysTwo site visits minimum · 9 in 100 turned away
Plate 05 The archive room, rue de Sèvres Photographed March 2026
11 400 mm — room elevation, west wall
02 m4 m6 m8 m10 m11.4
4 200 mm — floor to ceiling
Detail A — shelf 12 · 420 × 300
Camera 24 mm · f/8Daylight, no fill
05
The room every file comes back to.
Three thousand three hundred surveys on the west wall, filed by street. A buyer may ask for any one of them by name.
Files held3 300
Oldest entry1998 · Rue Vaneau
Kept byOperations · 6
Open to clientsOn request
Drawn
Design & Media
Checked
O. Charrier
Sheet
05 of 06
Scale
1 : 50
Date
March 2026
Hiring
Plate 06 Notice posted March 2026 Ref. AV-CAR-26/04
Four desks are open.
We hire slowly and keep people — median tenure is nine years. Read the four notices, or write to us anyway.
9
Years median tenure
14
Days to an answer
3
Offices hiring
RoleOffice · closes
AdvisorLondon · 30 Apr
AdvisorNew York · 15 May
ValuerParis · 30 Apr
ArchivistParis · rolling
careers@avava.com · answered within two weeks
