Can Site Inspections be Conducted Off-Site?

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Can Site Inspections be Conducted Off-Site?

The question itself is a paradox. Inspecting a site requires that the inspector is there, on-site. Doesnโ€™t it?

But as technology advances, and people discover there are other, often better, ways to do things, new opportunities come to light.

For all of its evils, COVID-19 has also been the catalyst for positive change around the world. We know that any catastrophe also provides opportunities for those awake to them. At Yenem the opportunities for off-site site inspections are opening up due to our strict border closure.

In April, we couldnโ€™t attend our six-monthly inspection of concrete bins in outback NSW. But our drone pilot and photographer Brad could โ€“ he was in the state โ€“ and following our system of data gathering, he, or rather his drone and camera, became our site-eyes. Back at the desk, our engineer reviews the data in a virtual site consisting of 3D imagery and high-resolution photographs.

Drone Inspection - Brad

Providing Remedial Solutions

A current project involves significant remedial works at a mineral processing plant that has suffered from major corrosion. Throughout the process, weโ€™ve worked with existing drawings, photographs and measurements fed from people on site to produce structural design models and a CAD model (Navisworks) to fully document the remedial works.

We want to ensure our designs are constructible. We want to make sure we havenโ€™t missed anything. We really need to go to site. But we canโ€™t. At least not without two lots of 14-day self-quarantine.

So weโ€™re doing it again.

We have our drone pilot/photographer, our photo modeller, and our structural engineer, poised to perform an offsite site inspection using our systemised method Iโ€™m callingโ€ฆ Well, Iโ€™m kinda stuck on a name.

Hit Reply and let me know what you think.

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