Building, Structures, Facade Inspection Services using Drones

Here’s a look at the most compelling advantages of putting drones to work inspecting building exteriors:

Speed: An experienced drone pilot can scan the exterior of a building in a fraction of the time required to inspect a building manually. This allows inspectors to take on additional building inspection assignments which ensures each inspection can be done more efficiently and effectively..

Cost: With time being money, speedy drone inspections cost far less than manual inspections and are safer. Furthermore, aerial photography that used to be cost-prohibitive with planes or helicopters is now widely available thanks to drones.

Safety: Manual inspection of the exterior walls of a high-rise building requires an inspector to repel down the side of the building with ropes, pausing to look for damage or flaws  along the way. High winds could put the inspector in danger and create delays in the inspection process. A failure in the rope and repelling equipment could become fatal. Remote-controlled drones eliminate these risks to people and property.

Liability: With the hazards of traditional manual building inspections, the liability exposure has been substantial. Inspectors have to be insured, and those who hire them had to be indemnified against the cost of serious or even fatal injuries. Removing these risks with drones shrinks potential liabilities and potentially saves money.

Maneuverability: Drones can hover over a specific area to check for potential problems, and they can move into places that human eyes could never see without assistance. Complex building exteriors that jut out at odd angles can easily be inspected with remote-controlled drones.

Visual clarity: Cameras with up to 4K resolution can reveal flaws and/or damage that the human eye potentially can miss. Thermal cameras on drones can detect heat differentials that reveal leaks.

Share-ability: Digital video and images are easy to share among multiple stakeholders, so when time is of the essence everyone who need to know about an exterior problem can review them in high-resolution and high-quality.