
Stories from 400 Feet
Drone professionals are making dull, dirty, and dangerous jobs safer, faster, and more actionable. In this podcast, we highlight the everyday and the not-so-everyday stories of drones and technologies being used in the field, whether that is to conduct routine data collection or to test new and exciting avenues for the drone industry. If a drone flies, we’ll be there!
Stories from 400 Feet
Inspecting a Million Square Foot façade in Less than 5 Days with Drones
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Danielle Gagne, Chief Storyteller at Volatus Aerospace
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Season 1
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Episode 3
Building façade inspections are time consuming and dangerous jobs often requiring dangling an inspector off the side of a building or constructing scaffolding. The process can take months if not longer for your usual building project. So, what do you do when you are working against the clock and have a million square feet of building façade and 8 acres of roof top to inspect in just 5 days in Seattle? You hire a drone team. In this episode, Kirk Floyd, Owner of Kdrone Services, talks about how his team of drone pilots captured that data in less than 5 days and why conducting façade inspections with drones is a game changer for the AEC industry.