Structural Inspections
An inspection carried out by Vertex Air can help you to spot minor defects before they become larger and more costly problems. Collect assessment data without taking unnecessary health and safety risks and to ensure that data is as detailed and accurate as possible.
Chimney Stack Drone Survey
Industrial Chimney Surveys
Vertex Air’s industrial chimney surveys consist of fully GPS located images (combined with Height Data) to allow accurate fault analysis and reporting. Each high resolution drone image in the survey can be quickly located to a location on the chimney.
Using a drone for industrial chimney visual condition surveys can help give asset owners peace of mind that their structures are in good condition or help identify difficult to see structural issues at great height or on the flaunching.
All of the Vertex Access Group’s in-house reporting is undertaken by qualified surveyors to ensure our clients receive accurate reporting data and analysis.
Chimneys and Flare Stacks, whilst in operation, are inspected at a safe distance from the structure without the need for operatives to access the operational (hot temperature) structure. Additionally, by using Vertex Air’s thermal imaging technology, operating chimneys show weak spots within the structure to identify and locate the weakened areas for remediation works.
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LIGHTING TOWERS, MASTS & PYLONS
Large vertical structures are often complicated and inefficient to access and pose many safety issues regarding Work at Height. Vertex Air overcomes these issues by utilising their UAV equipment (Drones) that has the ability to be over 100 metres in the air within 30 seconds of take-off. High resolution imagery is then captured analysing the mast structure along with bracketry, fixings and the lighting units / antenna / radio equipment / cables installed to the vertical structure. These high resolution drone images can either be given directly to the client for them to make their on assessment of condition or used by Vertex’s own in house surveyors to compile a comprehensive condition report.
Thermography of the in-use lighting units uncovers potential electrical faults that could otherwise lead to failure of the electrical components.
Thermography of electricity pylons reveals defects within the cables and the isolators allowing for PPM (Preventative Planned Maintenance) of equipment before failure reducing overall downtime of the assets.
Lighting Tower Condition Survey
High Level Steelwork Condition Survey
Steelwork
Inspection of high-level steelwork is conducted efficiently using our HD high resolution DLSR cameras mounted on our state-of-the-art drones. There is minimal disruption to the site and no requirement to shutdown assets and plant to undertake the inspections. Vertex is able to photograph from above assets to locate issues that would otherwise be impossible to have identified.
The large format imagery that we provide to our clients gives unrivalled levels of detail (a single image can be zoomed-in to view the condition of an M16 bolt at 15 metres away). This allows us to capture the required survey imagery with a few photographs as possible (speed of analysis) without compromising on quality of the survey.
Defects in the steelwork that have been identified by the drone are often in difficult to reach areas of site, where cherry picker of scaffolding may not be feasible. Vertex Rope Access undertake maintenance and repair work at height using industrial rope access techniques, which bypass the need for costly traditional access methods.
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