Drone survey for construction
Topographic survey before you mobilise, earthwork quantities you can certify, and a dated progress record that settles arguments before they become claims.
- Less survey field time
- 85%
- Flight to deliverable
- 48 hrs
- Volume accuracy
- 1-2%
Context
Measure the site as often as the programme changes
Construction is where drone survey earns its keep fastest, because the site changes faster than any conventional survey cycle can follow. A crew that takes three weeks to walk a 200-hectare site is measuring something that no longer exists by the time the drawing is issued.
We work to the project rhythm rather than our own. Baseline survey before design freeze, then a monitoring cadence matched to your earthwork programme - weekly during bulk movement, monthly once the site stabilises. Every cycle sits on the same control network, so what you see between two captures is progress and not survey noise.
The commercial value usually shows up at interim payment. When the quantity in the certificate is backed by a dated, controlled, independently checked surface with published residuals, the conversation with the client or contractor is much shorter than it used to be.
What clients bring us
- Baseline survey delays holding up design freeze
- Earthwork quantity disputes at interim payment
- No objective record of site condition on a given date
- Design-versus-as-built deviations found too late to fix cheaply
What we do about it
- Full topographic survey delivered as a Civil 3D-ready surface within a week of mobilisation
- Monthly volume reconciliation with a stated confidence interval and signed methodology
- Repeat capture from locked control so consecutive cycles are genuinely comparable
- Design surface overlaid on as-built so grading deviations surface in the same cycle they occur
Relevant services
What construction clients commission
Listed in the order they usually matter to this sector.
Working in construction?
Send us the site, the area and what the data has to support. We respond within one working day - and if the method you asked for will not hit your accuracy target, we will say so before you commit.