FACADE ASSESSMENT CASE STUDY

Prior to working with IDS, the client had undergone a facade assessment conducted by a building envelope inspection specialist from a third-party resource. The assessment findings had been presented in a summary outlining each building’s current conditions and recommended next steps. The total timeline of each facade assessment took 21 days per property and required site visits from an FAA pilot, a visual observer, and the building envelope inspection specialist – where the majority of the cost was focused. As a result, the client was in search of a more streamlined and cost-effective way to conduct facade assessments that would help it make critical and informed decisions regarding all of its facilities.

The client contracted IDS to perform a facade assessment of all of its properties, making use of a field service team that included an FAA pilot and a terrestrial field manager to capture UAS imagery of the roof and parapet transition, HD 360° first-person perspectives, verification of property and elevations, and more. Deliverables included:

• HD aerial orthomosaic map
• HD aerial building facade view
• HD facade inspection imagery
• HD geotagged survey, audit, and inspection asset imagery
• 3D building point cloud model
• Field test result imagery
• Individual building facade assessment summary
• Comprehensive portfolio facade assessment comparison

In all, IDS provided the client with fully immersive imagery with high zoomability to help highlight focal and deficiency areas via the remote IDS Viewer platform.

The field service team captured comprehensive, HD imagery and data in three hours per site and four days per store versus 21 days per store through the previous party. Once captured in the field, the imagery was then published and viewable from anywhere within three days. Resource utilization was also reduced, as there was no longer a need for an internal resource to compile the facade assessment comparison. Instead, this deliverable was included IDS’s facade assessment package. In completing this project with IDS, the client can now view, assess, and make decisions regarding its properties without needing to travel or send team members to any of its locations.