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UPP

UPP (University Partnerships Programme) used high-resolution aerial images combined with DroneDB to gain efficiencies for roof condition inspections and planned maintenance works on campus

ABOUT UPP

The UK’s leading provider of on-campus residential and academic accommodation

UPP (University Partnerships Programme) have over 36,000 rooms in operation or under construction through long-term, bespoke partnerships with 15 world-leading universities. With approximately 1,000 employees, since 1998 UPP have invested over £3bn in the UK higher education sector and provided homes to over 400,000 students.

Their Challenge​

Lowering costs and improving efficiencies

UPP wanted to improve the understanding of roof maintenance and understand the frequency of gutter clearing. Traditionally cherry pickers and external roof access were used but these were less cost-effective and not always risk-free. Drones allowed a quick, safe solution to document and record all aspects of roof condition. Flights were undertaken at multiple points across different campuses which helped to reduce the carbon footprint of the entire piece of work.

Outcomes

Cost-effective, quicker and safer way of performing visual roof inspections

Fixed the communication and information gaps in asset management

Cloud-based outputs were easily shared with different stakeholders

Enabled planning for future spending using an evidence-based approach

Cost-saving, safety and efficiency benefits

Hours/days capture time*

Versus the traditional ground/roof-based data capture time of weeks or even months for large assets, saving days/weeks

De-risking data capture

Versus ground or rooftop inspections with ropes, scaffold and towers our aerial capture tools are “zero-touch”

Up to 80% cost saving

Versus traditional manual inspection costs by removing the expense of prolonged capture time, travel time and repeated in-person site visits

Fully digital remote inspection

Versus the traditional survey which does not “see” all of the asset from all aspects and elevations

Millions of data points

Versus ground/roof-based surveys with limited access and finite resolution, allowing pinpoint accuracy across the whole digital twin

3D interactive outputs

Versus the traditional 2D paper-based reports and images which have limited access, coverage and quality

*For areas up to 10,000 or 1ha – roof inspection image capture in one day. Larger areas of up to 100ha are for landscape photogrammetry in one day.

Effortless aerial data management and sharing

We provided a unique solution where, for complex and large inspections, images were displayed by contextually using their geo-spatial information. The easy-to-use online and desktop platform (DroneDB) provides a convenient location to store images which are related to their position on a particular roof. This is key for data management in a large site where there are 10’s of GB of images and data.

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