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Des is a Chartered Civil Engineer and qualified Drone Pilot.

He has over 40 years experience in the built environment, working for consultants in the UK, the Middle East and in Australia, and was a Director of a multi disciplinary UK consultancy for nearly 20 years before stepping down in 2019
He has extensive experience of Civil and Structural Engineering, building surveying, forensic building inspections, expert witness work, project management, and has now combined his expertise in the built environment with his interest in flying and photography.
Air2Ground offer a very unusual combination of a Drone Pilot who is also an experienced Building Professional and a Chartered Engineer

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WE TAKE PICTURES FROM ABOVE

Using the latest drone technology we can fly above your buildings, events or photo target, to capture 4k video and high resolution still imagery. We have a small drone to undertake small roof inspections and also a larger drone for higher level work

We will discuss your requirements in detail and agree on a flight plan that will provide the imagery that you need. All imagery is provided digitally either on hard media or via web link.

Our pilots are all fully qualified by the CAA to fly commercially and all flights are fully insured up to £1m. Higher insurance can be provided if needed at additional cost.

Buildings, the Built Environment and Inland Waterways are our speciality, but wherever we can fly, we can shoot.

We can undertake detailed property assessments whatever your requirement is:

Structural Surveys of Domestic Properties

Due Diligence Inspections

Structural Surveys of Heritage Properties

Roof Inspections

Fire Damage

Retaining Wall Inspections

Impact Damage

We will provide fully detailed written reports outlining our observations, and our recommendations and conclusions.

We are covered by Professional Indemnity Insurance of £500k

The drone gives us that extra capability to see the areas that others cant such as roofs, chimneys, gutters, high level construction, balconies, mast structures etc

The list of opportunities is endless.

Building Surveys

Why Use Us?
Des Yates has had over 40 years experience in the property industry undertaking building surveys and making structural assessments
While working for Clancy his clients included

​Travis Perkins
A structural safety assessment of over 400 branches throughout the UK.

​NHBC
Working as a consultant to NHBC to analyse structural problems with new build properties and to identify remedial work required.

Estate Agents, Insurers and Building Surveyors

​Covering a vast range of domestic and commercial properties, of all ages, from a crack in a wall, to a sloping floor, to subsidence, wall restraint, or structural collapse.

​Any type of Structural Inspections can be undertaken

Roof Inspections

We can fly automated flights over your property taking images every few seconds with definition down to below 1cm per pixel of image. The image above left is comprised of 500 photographs taken with 80% overlap with a zoom lens from 150 feet, which has been combined into a single large jpeg file. It might look like screenshot of Google Maps but the detail available is on another level entirely.
Zooming in to a particular area can identify defects, and low level detail shots can be taken to highlight specific areas of concern (gutters, flashings, penetrations etc).

These images can be used as an asset register recording the roof condition on a certain date and the flight can be reflown at a later date if needed to identify deterioration.

This is particularly suitable for large roof areas such as warehouses, schools etc
For costings please contact us but this service is surprisingly cost effective!

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