Energy and industrial · operators, insurers and contractors
One picture the operator, the insurer and the contractor all open.
They each need the same things: where the units are, how far apart they stand, what condition they are in, and what the cranes could reach. Today that lives in a site visit, a folder of photographs and somebody’s memory.
Our own build, from stock footage. The plant and its operator are not named. The operations layers are illustrative and the panel labels them.
What it is like without one.
Three parties, three pictures
The operator, the insurer and the contractor each hold a different version of the same site, and the differences only surface when something has gone wrong.
Distances get argued rather than measured
How far apart the vessels stand, and what a crane could reach, are the questions a site visit is booked to answer.
A folder of photographs is not a record
Nobody has time to compare two hundred images, so nobody does.
What we built.
The whole plant in 3D from one flight
Every unit boxed and measured on the model, in a browser, with nothing to install.
Each unit answers a different question
The same vessel carries what it is, what condition it is in, when it is next due, and how exposed it is, so the operator, the insurer and the contractor read the same object their own way.
Your own layers on the real site
Hazard zones, escape routes, muster points and readings sit on the ground where they belong. In this build they are samples, and the panel says so.
The numbers, and what kind of number each one is.
Every figure here says whether it was measured, estimated or read, because a figure without that is not usable.
17units measuredMeasured on the 3D, each one boxed and sized.
about 102 mthe tallest unitA distillation column. Said as about, because the whole model is scaled to within 7%.
13storage spheresMeasured across three groups: a farm of ten, a pair, and one on its own.
10.6 mbetween the spheresShell to shell, measured on the 3D rather than taken from a drawing.
35 m and 26 mcrane clearancesEstimated, at the boom angle the drone filmed. An estimate is a starting point for a lift plan, never the lift plan.
How it gets used.
One link, three readers
The operator, the insurer and the contractor open the same site on the same day instead of three versions of it.
A guided tour for a briefing
The site walks itself through, so a room full of people sees the same thing in the same order.
Re-flown when it matters
Each flight adds a dated picture, so change is visible rather than described.
What it is not.
The operations layers are illustrative
Zones, routes, permits and readings here are samples, placed to show what your own drawings and sensors would show. They are not a safety case.
2 units carry a use we could not confirm
Where the footage does not say what a building is for, the page says so rather than guessing. Your own drawings settle it in an afternoon.
Measured, not surveyed
The model is scaled to within about 7%. Clearances and distances are good enough to plan and talk about, and a surveyed figure rules where one exists.
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