Services / Industrial inspections

See the condition of every asset without putting anyone at height.

Detailed aerial inspection of industrial and commercial assets, structures and hard-to-access areas, delivered as a report your maintenance team can plan from.

Why fly it

Cheaper than scaffold, faster than a shutdown, safer than a harness.

Most external inspections can be flown while the plant is running. A stack or tank that would take days of access equipment to inspect properly can be captured in a morning, with a permanent visual record you can compare against next time.

The drone gets to the top of the stack, the underside of the conveyor gantry and the far side of the roof. Your inspector reviews it from a desk, at their own pace, and zooms in on what matters.

What we inspect
  • Stacks, chimneys and flare structures
  • Storage tanks, silos and hoppers
  • Roofs, cladding, gutters and skylights
  • Structural steel, conveyors and gantries
  • Pipe racks, bridges and elevated pipework
  • Wharves, jetties and marine structures
  • Kilns, dryers and process vessel exteriors
  • Cranes, lighting towers and comms masts
What you get

A deliverable, not a folder of photos

High-resolution imagery

Every elevation and detail captured at a resolution where cracks, corrosion, spalling and displaced fixings are clearly visible.

Observations report

A PDF report with each observation located, photographed and described, so your engineer or maintenance planner can assess it and decide the action.

Organised image library

Files named and grouped by asset and elevation, so your engineers can find the shot they need in seconds.

Optional 3D model or orthomosaic

Where geometry or measurement matters, a scaled model or top-down map of the asset for reference and comparison over time.

Typical jobs

Where this earns its keep

  • Pre-shutdown condition survey so the scope is right before the crews arrive
  • Post-shutdown close-out record of completed work
  • Roof and cladding condition for insurance, budgeting or storm damage claims
  • Periodic tank, silo and stack external inspections between statutory internals
  • Incident documentation and independent visual records
  • Baseline capture before a plant is handed over, sold or decommissioned
Common questions

Do we need to stop production?

Rarely. External inspections are flown clear of people and live operations. We agree an exclusion zone with your site contact and work around your activities.

How close can the drone get?

Close enough to read a weld. Stand-off distance is set by the asset, the wind and site rules, and the camera resolution does the rest.

Can you fly near our site?

Airspace is assessed and authorisations obtained before every job using professional flight planning tools. Near an airport or in controlled airspace we sort the approvals first.

What do you need from us?

Site induction, a site contact on the day, known hazards and any exclusion areas. We bring everything else.

Other services

Got an asset you have been putting off inspecting?

Send us a photo and a location and we will tell you what a drone inspection would involve and cost.