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Best Drone Facade Inspection Services in Dubai

A stunning facade adds to the aesthetics of a property. If you own a high-rise building with a major facade structure, you need to get regular inspections done for it to ensure that it stays aesthetically pleasing for a long period of time. 

Land Sterling offers drone-based facade inspection services for commercial and residential real estate. Facades for high-rise buildings can often get damaged because of environmental factors. The accurate inspection of a facade helps determine the exact location and the extent of the damage.

Our drone-based facade inspections offer you a faster and safer way to learn about any major or minor facade defects. With our facade inspections, you get to learn about the facade damages that you need to fix in real-time.     

Why is Facade Inspection Important?

The facade of a building is one of the most important components of your property’s infrastructure. Poorly built or damaged facades can lead to potentially harmful damages. These damages can be of physical or financial nature. 

This is what makes it important for property owners to learn about the existing and potential facade issues. With a proper facade inspection, you can have peace of mind that the building is safe to use for residents. Regular facade inspections also help maintain the market value of your property. 

Why Choose Our Drone Facade Inspection Services?

Drone-Based Facade Inspections

We utilise the latest drone technology for conducting facade inspections. The use of drones enables us to deliver real-time results to you in a short amount of time. With our drone-based inspections, you won’t have to worry about investing in manual labour for facade inspections. 

Faster Inspections

In most cases, manual facade inspections can take up to 30 days. And inspections for taller buildings can take even longer. With our drone-based facade inspections, you won’t have to wait for months to get the inspection report. Drone inspections take much less time when it comes to doing facade inspections.

Real-Time Monitoring

With our drone-based facade inspections, you can keep track of the inspection process in real time. The automated mode of operation of drones is a more viable solution for facade inspections as it facilitates real-time monitoring of the facade inspections.  

Flexible & Efficient Services

Our drone-based facade inspection services are flexible in that the drones can easily reach even the tough-to-reach facade spaces. This is what makes our facade inspection services better and more efficient than the traditional facade assessment means. 

Thorough Facade Inspection Using Advanced Drones Technology

Facade Inspection is the process of verifying the integrity of a building structure and ensuring safety for its occupants and people within its vicinity by using drones. Carrying out a physical inspection at a busy construction site can be dangerous and raise various safety concerns. 

GIS Drones Facade Inspection platform, operated by a one or two-man team, aims to slash the time taken to a few days using AI to mark Façade defects. With industrial drones to carry out inspection works; GIS Drones can easily acquire precise and accurate visual data; the data collected can be used for many purposes.

1) Building Facade Inspection

Conventional building inspection would require the erection of scaffolding or robe access, which can be time-consuming, costly, and risky.

The use of drones would eliminate those problems. In addition, by identifying potential building issues through thermal imaging analysis, faults can be rectified accordingly.

2) Rooftop Inspection

Maintenance inspection on high structures such as towers, roofs, and bridges incur extra costs and cause issues of access arrangement and personnel working at height.

Drone inspection provides the fastest and easiest solution to acquire details of the structures; the engineer on the ground can receive real-time footage during the process.

Automating and Digitising Building Facade Inspections

GIS Drones Facade Inspection platform can detect over 30 building and facade defect types, including cracks, corrosion, and paint peeling. In addition, defects can be identified on surfaces such as concrete, cladding, glass, or metallic surfaces.

Manual Inspection Vs Drone Inspection

Pain Areas (Manual Inspection)Solution (Drone Inspection)
Manual Process & Tedious Setup3 Days of Drone Inspection & Reporting
Can’t Visually Reach 100%50% Lower Costs in Building Inspection
Long Inspection Lead TimeLive stream during drone inspection
Human ErrorsDigital Inspection Reports
4 Weeks To Conduct Visual InspectionOnline Platform for defect mapping
Expensive Equipment & LogisticsIncreased Worker Skills
Documentation Challenges80% Productivity For Visual Inspection

Take Your Work to New Heights

GIS Drones Facade Inspection Platform

Asset Visualisation

  • Visualise how your building change over time
  • View 3D models of your buildings

Dashboard and Reporting

  • Draw insightful information on building defects
  • Gain oversight on building portfolio
  • Identify trends of building defects
  • PDF report generation

Document & Content Management

  • Dedicated and secure data repository for building data
  • Multiple data formats, images, PDFs, videos, etc.

Automated Defect Identification

  • System auto-location and tagging of defects on elevation plan sales identification and classification (computer vision)

30 Types of Building Defects and Facade Materials That Can Be Detected:

  • Concrete Crack
  • Water Stains
  • Paint Peeling
  • Moulding
  • Rust
  • Loose Sealant
  • Mould on Facade Rubber Gasket
  • Concrete Spalling
  • Paint Crack
  • Buckling
  • Vegetation
  • Disengagement
  • Wall Tile Crack
  • Corrosion
  • Surface discoloration
  • Brick Wall Crack
  • Missing facade attachment
  • Paint Blisters
  • Roof Tile Crack
  • Glass Crack
  • Block Wall Crack
  • Stains
  • Cracks
  • Worn Off Sealant
  • Trash
  • Water Leakage
  • Wall Opening
  • Streak marks
  • Water Ponding
  • Textures that can be identified:
    Concrete, Plaster, Steel, Bricks,
    Timber, Glass

Use Case of a Complete Building Inspection

FROM (Manual)

  • Paper-driven inspection reports
  • Incoherent defect labelling and identification
  • 4 weeks to conduct a visual inspection

TO (Drones)

  • Digital inspection reports System-located to defect
  • Mapping on Ortho-Facades
  • 3 days of inspection and reporting

Benefits of Drone Facade Inspection Service

Safer Workplace

Our solution improves safety by reducing work-at-height incidents through automated drone inspections that can reach elevated and hard-to-access areas.

Faster Inspections

Accelerate the building inspection process by over 70%. Automated drone scans and machine learning for quicker inspection turn-around times.

Highly Scalable

Scale your facility management and operational processes through actionable insights. Access the platform through web and mobile everywhere and anytime.

Lower Costs

Reduction of labour and equipment costs by over 50%. Achieve cost savings throughout the building lifecycle.

High Accuracy

Reduce human errors during building condition assessments through image analytics, digital workflows, documentation, and inspection visibility.

Validated by Professional Engineers

Our AI-enabled inspection results are reviewed and validated by professional building and construction industry engineers. Contact Land Sterling right now to get a free quote for our facade inspection services.

Frequently Asked Questions

GIS Drones use machine learning algorithms to speed up the process of anomaly identification and provide an overview of defects on web-based dashboards. Automated generated reports in various formats are also available for download, highlighting issues found on a building in a fraction of the time compared to current manual inspection processes.

Most solutions in the market are manual and require expensive scaffoldings, robes, or cranes. The rare few that engage drones are still very manual, requiring manual inspection of the collected images and data. GIS Drones automate the interpretation of the data and reporting through automated workflows reducing the time taken by over 80%. As a result, our clients have experienced over 50% cost savings and, most importantly, mitigated safety challenges with work-at-height.

Schedule a call with GIS Drones to help you with the end-to-end process and provide you with a detailed inspection report for your maintenance team. Is there a project reference that I can refer to? Contact us so we can share real-life case studies of the Facade Inspection at info@gisdrones.com.

GIS Drones prices are affordable. After conducting market research, we are confident that the total drone inspection cost will be at least 50% less than the manual inspection cost.

It depends on the complexity of the building and the number of images. For example, a building with 12 floors will take approximately 2 days of drone inspection and 5 days to provide the final inspection report.

You will receive an inspection report that detects 30 types of anomalies and defects in the building exterior. The anomalies will be identified according to their severity level and marked accurately and graphically on the building faces for easy identification. And you will have access to the platform 24/7.