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High-resolution drone image of a commercial roof captured for a building condition survey

For building surveyors & property professionals

Building condition surveys

We work alongside building surveyors across the UK, capturing the high-end roof and elevation detail their condition reports depend on.

How we work with you

Your survey. Our aerial data.

A condition report is only as good as the evidence behind it. We supply the part you can't safely gather from the ground.

01

You keep the client

We work as your aerial data partner. The instruction, the professional judgement and the report stay yours.

02

We capture the roof

Every slope, valley, flashing, chimney and gutter — in close-up detail, without scaffolds, ladders or roof access.

03

You get report-ready evidence

Organised, reviewable imagery your whole team can revisit — the detail your report needs, ready to reference.

What you receive

Detail you can't get from a ladder and a zoom lens

Commercial roof coverings captured in close-up by drone

Complete roof coverage

Every slope and elevation recorded, not just what's visible from the street.

All elevations · organised sets

Slate roof detail with rooflights captured during a drone condition inspection

Close-up condition detail

Coverings, flashings, junctions, chimneys and rainwater goods in inspectable detail.

High-resolution stills

Drone thermographic image showing building insulation performance

Thermal context

Thermographic imaging where heat loss or moisture questions need answering.

Thermographic survey

Elevated mast roof inspection where drone flight is restricted, Swansea

No-fly locations covered

Vehicle-mounted elevated masts capture roofs where drones can't fly.

4x4 elevated mast

Delivered on DTA Inspect — our own platform

Thousands of photos are useless in a folder. So we built the platform.

Every inspection is published to DTA Inspect, the browser-based platform we built in-house. Your imagery arrives organised element by element, pinned to a site map, and zoomable to full resolution — not dumped in a drive share.

■ Organised by element & section ■ Every frame GPS-located on a map ■ Zoom to the full-resolution original ■ Annotations & defect records ■ Secure, password-protected sharing ■ Nothing to install

Worked example — Cardiff Arms Park, 2026

Stand-roof structural inspection, delivered on DTA Inspect

Images captured
4,989
Element register
106
trusses, masts, cladding, stands
GPS-located
100%
every single frame
Data delivered
45.7 GB
browsable in seconds
Top-down drone view of a Cardiff Arms Park stand roof beside the pitch
Stand roof — full coverage from above
Cardiff Arms Park stand structure and floodlights captured during the drone inspection
Stand structure & floodlight context
Close-up of stand roof steelwork and gutter detail from the Cardiff Arms Park inspection
Cantilever truss & gutter detail

Why surveyors work with us

Evidence at pace, without work at height

One London campaign
144 roofs
roof & façade inspections in 2 months — flown inside Central London's restricted airspace
Largest single building
13,000 m²
warehouse inspection, Swindon
  • Restricted airspace handled — we arrange the airspace permissions, even in city centres
  • No scaffolds, cherry pickers or rope access on your job
  • Occupied buildings keep running while we capture
  • In-house pilots and SafeContractor-accredited processes
  • Repeatable — the same building, re-inspected on the same basis, year after year
Drone inspection of an industrial chimney stack showing high-level detail
High-level detail captured without a single boot leaving the ground.

Working with the UK's surveying & property teams

  • Avison Young logo
  • Knight Frank logo
  • Cushman & Wakefield logo
  • Alder King logo
  • JLL logo
  • Rider Levett Bucknall logo

We supply the evidence. The report stays yours.

Our imagery informs your professional assessment — it doesn't replace it. That division of roles is exactly why building surveyors keep coming back to us.

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07716 453 575 info@DroneTechAerospace.co.uk