Who we work with
Drone inspections for every sector
We work with commercial and institutional property stakeholders across the Midlands and South East. Find your sector below to see how drone inspection helps with your specific building and maintenance challenges.
Hospitals and Healthcare Estates
Healthcare buildings often have complex maintenance requirements, large roof areas, and operational constraints that make traditional access methods difficult and disruptive.
- –Large, complex roof areas across multiple buildings and blocks
- –Operational sensitivity — minimising disruption to clinical areas is essential
- –Backlog maintenance with competing priorities for capital spend
- –Hard-to-access plant rooms, rooftop equipment, and high-level facades
- Rapid aerial overview of roof condition across entire estates
- Inspection without scaffolding, reducing disruption and costs
- Thermal capability to help identify areas of potential moisture concern
- Organised imagery that supports maintenance planning and prioritisation
- –Flat and pitched hospital roofs
- –Facades and external cladding
- –Plant rooms and rooftop equipment areas
- –Multi-storey blocks and link corridors
Client priorities
Value for money, minimal disruption, defensible condition records, maintenance planning support
Commercial Buildings
Commercial property owners and asset managers need reliable condition data to protect asset value, manage maintenance spend, and support property transactions.
- –Roof and facade maintenance across single or multiple assets
- –Condition assessment requirements for acquisitions, disposals, or lease events
- –Balancing maintenance spend against asset value and returns
- –Accessing high-level building elements safely and cost-effectively
- Clear visual evidence of building condition for decision-making
- Aerial data suitable for supporting surveyor assessments
- Faster overview of large or multi-building commercial sites
- Thermal imaging to help identify potential heat loss or moisture issues
- –Office building roofs and facades
- –Retail unit roofing and elevations
- –Mixed-use development exteriors
- –Commercial park buildings and perimeter structures
Client priorities
Asset protection, informed maintenance decisions, condition records, cost-effective access
Schools and Education Estates
Education estates typically include large roof areas, ageing building stock, and budget constraints — alongside the challenge of minimising any disruption to learning environments.
- –Large and varied roof areas across multiple buildings from different eras
- –Maintaining buildings on constrained budgets with competing demands
- –Access to rooftop areas during term time without disrupting operations
- –Identifying priorities across estates with many buildings to manage
- Efficient aerial condition overview across multiple school buildings
- Inspection without scaffolding during term time or holiday periods
- Imagery that supports prioritisation of limited maintenance budgets
- Thermal capability to help identify areas of potential insulation concern
- –School and college roof areas
- –Sports halls and assembly buildings
- –External facades and cladding
- –University campus buildings and facilities
Client priorities
Minimal disruption, budget-conscious planning, clear condition evidence, maintenance prioritisation
Residential Blocks and Housing Portfolios
Housing associations and residential management companies manage large property portfolios and need cost-effective ways to assess building condition across their stock.
- –Maintaining building condition across a large number of properties
- –Meeting obligations to residents regarding building safety and condition
- –Identifying where maintenance spend is most needed across the portfolio
- –Accessing high-level areas of blocks and maisonettes safely
- Aerial inspection of multiple residential blocks quickly and efficiently
- Evidence to support maintenance planning and prioritisation of spend
- Safer alternative to access equipment for initial condition assessment
- Imagery and findings to support resident communications and accountability
- –Flat roof areas on residential blocks
- –Facades, cladding, and balcony elevations
- –Communal roof terraces and plant areas
- –Hard-to-access high-level details
Client priorities
Portfolio-wide efficiency, resident safety, defensible records, maintenance prioritisation
Industrial Buildings and Warehousing
Industrial operators often have very large roof areas, profiled cladding systems, and operational requirements that make traditional inspection access costly and complex.
- –Very large roof areas with profiled metal cladding or membrane systems
- –Operational constraints that make shutting down for access difficult
- –Identifying roof defects before they result in water ingress and downtime
- –Cost pressure to avoid unnecessary scaffolding or access platform hire
- Rapid aerial survey of large industrial roof areas in a single operation
- Visual inspection without requiring access equipment as a first step
- Identification of areas that may require closer attention or repair
- Thermal capability to help identify potential moisture or insulation concerns
- –Industrial warehouse roofs and cladding
- –Distribution centre roof systems
- –Manufacturing facility facades
- –Rooflights, gutters, and drainage details
Client priorities
Operational continuity, large area coverage, early defect identification, cost-effective assessment
Public Sector Estates
Public sector estates teams manage a wide range of building types and must demonstrate value for public money while maintaining buildings to appropriate standards.
- –Managing diverse building stock with varying construction types and ages
- –Demonstrating value for money in maintenance and inspection spend
- –Prioritising capital and maintenance budgets across competing needs
- –Meeting public accountability requirements for building condition records
- Cost-effective aerial inspection compared to traditional access methods
- Clear, organised condition records to support accountability and reporting
- Condition data to support budget planning and prioritisation
- Efficient inspection across multiple buildings in a single visit
- –Civic and local authority buildings
- –Libraries, leisure centres, and public facilities
- –Council housing and estate buildings
- –Emergency services and operational buildings
Client priorities
Value for money, clear condition records, budget planning support, public accountability
Heritage and Listed Buildings
Historic, listed, and heritage buildings often have fragile or hard-to-reach features where traditional access risks causing damage — making non-contact aerial inspection particularly valuable.
- –Fragile roofs, spires, towers, and stonework that are difficult to access safely
- –Conservation constraints that limit scaffolding and physical contact
- –Maintaining ageing building fabric on limited budgets
- –Documenting condition for grant applications, faculties, or insurance
- Close-up visual inspection of high-level features without scaffolding or contact
- Detailed imagery of roofs, towers, and stonework for condition assessment
- A clear record of condition to support conservation planning and funding bids
- Reduced risk to fragile fabric compared with physical access
- –Church roofs, spires, and towers
- –Listed building facades and stonework
- –Historic estate and manor buildings
- –Conservation-area properties
Client priorities
Protecting fragile fabric, non-contact inspection, condition records for funding, conservation planning
Hospitality and Leisure
Hotels, leisure centres, and visitor venues need to keep buildings safe and presentable while minimising disruption to guests and day-to-day operations.
- –Large or complex roof areas across hotels, function spaces, and leisure facilities
- –Keeping inspection disruption away from guests and live operations
- –Maintaining the external appearance and safety of customer-facing buildings
- –Accessing high-level facades, signage, and rooftop plant safely
- Inspection without scaffolding or closures that disrupt guests
- Fast aerial overview of roofs, facades, and external condition
- Imagery to support maintenance planning and presentation standards
- Thermal capability to help identify potential heat loss or moisture issues
- –Hotel roofs and facades
- –Leisure centre and pool building roofs
- –Function and event venue exteriors
- –Rooftop plant, signage, and high-level details
Client priorities
Minimal guest disruption, presentation and safety, cost-effective access, maintenance planning
Construction and Development
Contractors and developers need clear, dated visual records during and after construction — for progress monitoring, handover, and checking high-level work without access equipment.
- –Monitoring progress across large or multi-building sites
- –Checking high-level and roof-level work safely before handover
- –Producing dated visual records for stakeholders and any disputes
- –Reducing reliance on scaffolding or access platforms for inspection-only tasks
- Regular aerial progress imagery for stakeholders and records
- Roof and high-level inspection ahead of handover or snagging
- Dated visual evidence to support reporting and dispute resolution
- Safer first-look inspection without access equipment
- –New-build roofs and elevations
- –Multi-plot development sites
- –Refurbishment and extension works
- –High-level details ahead of handover
Client priorities
Progress records, safe high-level checks, dated evidence, handover support
Insurance and Loss Adjusting
Insurers, loss adjusters, and property managers need fast, safe evidence of damage after storms or incidents — often on roofs and high-level areas that are unsafe to access immediately.
- –Assessing storm, weather, or impact damage quickly and safely
- –Accessing damaged roofs and high-level areas that may be unsafe
- –Producing clear, dated evidence to support claims and decisions
- –Covering multiple affected properties efficiently after an event
- Rapid aerial assessment of roof and high-level damage without access equipment
- Clear, dated imagery to support claims and loss adjusting decisions
- Safer inspection of compromised or unstable structures
- Efficient coverage of multiple properties after a weather event
- –Storm-damaged roofs and cladding
- –Impact and weather damage to facades
- –High-level areas unsafe for immediate access
- –Multiple properties following an event
Client priorities
Fast and safe assessment, dated claims evidence, avoiding unsafe access, efficient coverage