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The work

What we have built, and what it is for.

Every piece below is a real build, grouped by the sector it was made for and the decision it helps somebody make. Each one opens its own case study, with the figures, the methods and the limits on it.

Construction

Sites and structures while they are still changing.

A building measured inside and outFrom a phone walk and a drone flightA building measured inside and outMeasure an opening and see what is done and what is not, without sending anybody to site.Read it →A housing site read plot by plotOne 44-second flightA housing site read plot by plotTell which of a hundred plots are at foundations, slab, structure or roofed, from one pass.Read it →

Demolition

A building coming down, kept as a record.

Six months of a demolitionEight dated visitsSix months of a demolitionProve how far a strip-out has got, and how much is sitting on the roof, from outside the fence.Read it →

Telecom and utilities

Assets nobody can get close to.

A mast read without climbing itTwo drone orbitsA mast read without climbing itKnow what is on a mast, at what height and facing which way, before quoting for a climb.Read it →A power line, pole by poleOne flight per poleA power line, pole by poleDecide which spans a cutting crew goes to first, from clearances measured against LiDAR.Read it →

Industry and logistics

Working sites, read from the air.

A petrochemical plant, measuredNine stock clipsA petrochemical plant, measuredSize and space thirteen storage vessels, and place the cranes working between them.Read it →A container terminal in motionThirteen trucks trackedA container terminal in motionMeasure where the traffic really goes, and roughly how full the yard is.Read it →

Property and insurance

Buildings priced before anybody goes up.

A commercial roof, measured from the airOne crosshatch flightA commercial roof, measured from the airGet area, height and pitch per face before a ladder, a scaffold or a quote.Read it →

Property development

Plots, phases and who holds what.

A housing society, plot by plotAnonymised throughoutA housing society, plot by plotShow a buyer or an overseas owner their plot, its file and its payments, on the real ground.Read it →

Heritage and tourism

Places people decide whether to travel to.

Eleven places you can openEvery one opens with no formEleven places you can openLet somebody walk a site and hear its story before they have decided to come.Read it →

Nothing on this page carries a figure. Every measurement lives on the page it belongs to, beside the method that produced it and the margin it carries, because a card is the wrong place for a number that needs explaining. Where a piece was built on stock footage or for a partner, its own page says so.