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Reality capture for condominium boards and associations
Industry / Condominium and HOA

Reality capture for condominium boards and associations

Boards are making expensive decisions about buildings nobody has measured recently. A dated, measurable record of the property costs a fraction of one repair scope and it answers questions for years.

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01/The problem

The board is being asked to approve numbers nobody can check.

Milestone inspections, structural integrity reserve studies and the assessments that follow all rest on somebody's assessment of physical condition. Boards routinely see a scope and a price with very little independent record of what is actually up there.

Aerial capture gives the association its own documentation. Roof condition, elevations, balconies, railings, drainage and site, all dated and all measurable. It supports your engineer rather than replacing them, and it gives the board something to point at.

What the association gets

  • Dated aerial record of roofs, elevations and site
  • Measurable model for quantities and future scoping
  • Thermal survey for roof moisture and envelope issues
  • Railing, balcony and opening dimensions
  • Drainage and pooling documentation
  • Board ready exhibits in PDF
  • Pre hurricane season baseline for insurance and claims
  • Web viewable model the whole board can open
02/Fit

When boards use it

01

Before hurricane season

A dated record of the property before a storm is worth more than any documentation you can gather after one. It is the single cheapest thing an association can do to protect a claim.

02

Supporting a milestone inspection

Your engineer gets high resolution documentation of surfaces that are hard to reach, which makes their inspection more efficient and better supported.

03

Reserve study and capital planning

Roof areas, facade areas, railing counts and deck square footage measured rather than estimated, which changes the quality of a twenty year plan.

04

Before approving a large repair scope

An independent record of condition before the association commits to a seven figure assessment.

03/Proof

Data from delivered work.

Colorized point cloud of a coastal resort property including roofs and pool deck
Whole property record. Roofs, decks, drives and landscape in one dated collection.
Occupied coastal condo complex, X-ray elevation shaded LiDAR
Elevation relationships across the property, measurable long after the flight.
Thermal image of a building elevation
Thermal survey finds moisture and envelope problems before they become an assessment.
04/Services

What we typically fly for this work.

Digital twins

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Thermal and IR imaging

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Photogrammetry and orthomosaics

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Terrestrial LiDAR scanning

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05/Questions

Common questions.

Does this satisfy the milestone inspection requirement?
No, and we would not claim otherwise. Milestone inspections in Florida are performed by a licensed engineer or architect. What we provide is documentation that supports that professional and gives the association its own record. Confirm requirements with your engineer and counsel.
Is it worth doing before hurricane season?
It is the most common reason associations call us. Documenting condition before a storm is what makes a post storm claim provable. After the fact, everyone is arguing about what the roof looked like in June.
Do you need to access units or the roof?
No. Aerial capture is flown from the air and needs no interior or roof access. If the scope extends to garages or interiors, that is terrestrial scanning and we coordinate it with management.
How disruptive is it to residents and guests?
Very little. A flight is a few hours on site. We coordinate timing with management and stay clear of pool decks and amenity areas during peak use.
Can our engineer or contractor use the data directly?
Yes, and they usually want it. We deliver in the formats their software reads, and the association keeps the file regardless of which vendor is working on the building this year.
05/Next step

Start with one site.

Send the boundary and the deliverable you need. We scope it, fly it, and return the data in your format, typically in under seven days.

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