Facade inspection from the air, across the UAE. A drone reaches every elevation of a building without scaffold, rope access or a cradle, and photographs it at a resolution that lets a surveyor assess a crack or a sealant joint from the desk.
The usual alternative is a rope team working down the face over days, or a mast climber that cannot reach the returns. A drone covers a villa in a morning and a tower block in a day, with no one working at height.
How we fly a facade
We fly an automated capture route parallel to each elevation, holding a fixed standoff so every frame is at consistent scale and overlaps its neighbours. On a recent villa inspection in Abu Dhabi that meant a 10 m route for facade detail, a 20 m oblique pass for context on the building, and an 80 m oblique across the surrounding 36 hectares. That job produced 8,554 frames.
Positions are fixed with RTK or PPK so the imagery is georeferenced and this month’s pass registers against the last. Flights that abort or fall outside tolerance are logged and excluded rather than quietly included — our capture folders carry a rejected set alongside the accepted one.
