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Using drone pictures for construction progress reporting is common place on sites today. Design teams, engineers, construction managers, workers and owners can all access the same information at any time allowing them to audit the project effectively from afar.
HiPics drone imagery creates a valuable trail of documentation for teams to access before, during and after a project finishes.
Progress Reporting: Fraser River Pile and Dredge, Richmond B.C.
The Fraser River Pile and Dredge progress reporting shoot first began as side project.
As I was already flying my drone doing a construction progress shoot on the VAFFC storage tank site right beside this one, I knew this would make for an interesting set of construction progress reporting pictures detailing a large scale pre-load project.
Pictures taken from the same position using a drone over the duration of a project always tell a great marketing story for the construction company.
This project is also ideal for drone based volumetric mapping calculations, unfortunately I wasn’t on it early enough to capture all the details from day one…
Drones images used for volumetric calculations track the exact amount of sand being pumped onto each level. These pictures and their calculations are then used to analyze the settlement of the entire sand load over time.
Knowing the volume of sand to be trucked away at the end of a pre-load project is essential.
Progress Reporting: Strawberry Hill Community Hall, Surrey, B.C.
We are currently shooting and reporting on the construction progress of the Strawberry Hill Community Hall re-rebuild, which burned down during reconstruction 2 years ago. I have provided a link to the news article below.
Strawberry Hill Hall Destroyed by Fire
For this project we are capturing the 4 standard N-S-E-W stationary drone shots from 30, 40 and 50 meters high.
The community is looking forward to the day when the hall again plays a valuable role in the Strawberry Hills area of Surrey.
City of Surrey breaks ground on new Strawberry Hill Community Hall
In addition to the standard drone images we are capturing, we are also recording a series of orbital videos twice monthly from an altitude of 100 feet AGL.
Each orbital video shows a complete 360 degree counter clockwise revolution around the community hall.
Presently we have produced a YouTube playlist containing 12 drone progress reporting videos of the construction site.
We will continue to add 1-2 more videos monthly to this playlist until the construction project is completed in the spring of 2024.
Progress Reporting: Vancouver Airport Fuel Facilities Corporation , Richmond, B.C.
We began the progress reporting on the Vancouver Airport Fuel Facilities Corporation – Fuel Delivery Project in March of 2019, and continued until November of 2023.
This project is comprised of 3 separate, but interconnected construction projects; the Fuel Receiving Facility, the Marine Terminal, and the new 500 meter underground pipeline that connects the two.
For construction progression reporting purposes, we broke down the project into 3 separate areas and have referred to these as such.
The Fuel Receiving Facility has six above ground steel storage tanks which have a total capacity of 80 million liters.
Marine Terminal is located just west of the Fuel Receiving Facility, and is designed to receive both large Panamax Class vessel fuel shipments, and small barge loads of fuel.
The 500 meter long underground pipeline transfers the offloaded jet fuel from the marine terminal to the storage tanks.
