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OVER & ABOVE
Aerial drone view looking down over an active Central London construction site with tower cranes and the surrounding cityscape

For contractors, construction directors and operations directors

Monthly aerial monitoring for London construction sites.

Programmed flights from a fixed path. Stills, edited video, time-lapse archive. The same coordinates every month, frame-accurate continuity.

Programme verification you can hand to anyone.

Site progress photography is fragmented. The site manager takes phone shots. The marketing team books a one-off drone flight before launch. The QS team has nothing visual to support their valuation. The board has no archive at handover.

A programmed monthly flyover replaces all of that. One flight a month. A fixed flight path captured to within a metre, every month, for the duration of the build. The same shots, the same angles, the same colour grade. Stills for site reports. Edited video for stakeholder updates. A time-lapse archive that compounds quarter by quarter.

Independent. Documented. Defensible.

Per flight, every month.

01

High-resolution aerial stills

Minimum 12 frames from consistent angles. Shareable with PMs, QSs, contractors, board.

02

Edited 60-90 second flyover

Colour-graded, captioned with date, ready for stakeholder updates and investor packs.

03

Time-lapse archive

Frame-accurate GPS-locked continuity from first dig to handover. Cut into a single sequence on completion.

04

Cloud delivery within 48 hours

Secure shared folder, accessible to everyone you nominate. No download size limits.

What clients actually use the footage for.

Main contractors

Programme verification across the supply chain. Subcontractor progress evidence. Visual support for monthly QS valuations. Independent site condition records for dispute and variation negotiations.

Developers and PMs

Visual timeline from groundwork to handover for board reviews, investor packs, and the post-handover archive. Consistent-angle stills that can sit alongside renders for direct comparison.

Owner's representatives and disputes

Independent third-party documentation. Time-stamped, GPS-tagged, archived monthly. Defensible evidence of claimed progress versus actual condition.

Programmes from £350 per month.

Aerial monitoring programme

From £350 per month + VAT

  • 12-month minimum, then rolling
  • One programmed flight per month
  • Stills, edited video, time-lapse archive
  • Cloud delivery within 48 hours
  • Pre-mobilisation site survey included

Pricing scales with site size, location complexity, restricted-airspace requirements, and reporting cadence. Multi-site portfolios discounted. Common Assessment Standard onboarding handled at no charge.

Cleared for the airspace most operators avoid.

Central London is the hardest airspace in the UK to fly in. Three Restricted Zones: R157 (Central), R158 (around Buckingham Palace), R159 (around Hyde Park). London Heliport sits at Battersea. The Metropolitan Police's Specialist Firearms Unit holds airspace authority over the diplomatic estate. The Civil Aviation Authority restricts where you can take off and land within the Charing Cross congestion area.

We hold active NATS Non-Standard Flight Permission workflows for all three Restricted Zones. We have coordinated clearances with Battersea Heliport ATC, the Metropolitan Police MPSFU, and US Embassy security on Ballymore's Embassy Gardens scheme. We hold an Operational Safety Case from the CAA for reduced separation distances near occupied buildings.

If your site is anywhere inside the M25, the question is not whether we can fly. It is when.

Procurement-ready out of the box.

Credentials

  • CAA Operational Authorisation. Reference [Sam to add]
  • GVC qualified pilots
  • A2 CofC qualified pilots
  • £10m public liability
  • £1m professional indemnity
  • £10m employer's liability
  • CHAS / SafeContractor / Constructionline (SSIP). [Sam to confirm which]
  • ISO 9001. [confirm or remove]
  • CSCS-carded crew on site
  • DBS checks for residential and school-adjacent sites
  • GDPR-compliant data handling
  • NDA standard before mobilisation

Onboarding

  1. 01 Initial enquiry. We send the capability deck within 24 hours.
  2. 02 Procurement pack. Insurance certificates, RAMS template, policies, accreditations. Within 24 hours of request.
  3. 03 Site survey. Free of charge. We confirm flight path, restricted-airspace requirements, and access logistics.
  4. 04 Mobilisation. RAMS submitted via your system (Procore, Asite, or PDF). First flight within 14 days of contract signature.

Download the capability deck

Questions construction directors ask first.

Are you on Constructionline / CHAS?

[Sam to confirm specifics. Answer here once confirmed.]

What are your standard insurance levels?

£10m public liability, £1m professional indemnity, £10m employer's liability. Certificate of Insurance current within the year, available before mobilisation.

Will you fly while the site is live?

Yes. Every flight is preceded by a RAMS submission, a site briefing with the SM, and an exclusion zone agreed in advance. We work around tower cranes, MEWPs, and active deliveries.

What happens to the footage?

Delivered to a secure cloud folder shared with the people you nominate. We retain a working archive for 24 months for time-lapse continuity. Footage is never used in our portfolio without written consent.

What if the weather is wrong on the scheduled day?

We carry a 5-day rebooking window in every programme. CAA wind, visibility and precipitation thresholds are documented in the RAMS. Rebooked flights do not incur additional cost.

Get the deck. Get on a call.

The capability deck covers credentials, insurance, accreditations, four anonymised case studies, and standard terms. PDF, 16 pages, sized for forwarding internally.