The Benefits of Using Drones in Facilities Management

Drones can be used to inspect roofs, walls and many exterior surfaces as well as proving beneficial in the assessment of equipment and facilities. As our infrastructure ages, it is increasingly important to find innovative ways to inspect and maintain it, therefore the use of drones in facilities management opens up many possibilities in ensuring a building, or space, is safe and functioning efficiently as well as identifying hazards that have the potential to cause damage or downtime.

Drones for preventative maintenance

Avrenim use drones to audit and assess the current condition of properties and buildings and to provide valuable reports and feedback to our customers. We use drones to monitor equipment such as wind turbines and solar panels, ensuring they are fit for purpose and operating effectively. Within facilities management It is important to be able to detect issues before they become critical, therefore keeping drone footage up to date is important in helping to reduce downtime and further maintenance costs into the future as older information may no longer require preventative work but instead reactive.

Drones for difficult-to-reach areas

In facilities management, drones are capable of getting to places that are considerably difficult to reach and offer ‘an eye in the sky’ to check for damages in parts of your project that are inaccessible or hard to reach.

Drones to plan, inspect work and monitor projects

Drones are not only suitable for inspecting individual objects but also for monitoring entire areas. These inspections can help to identify faults and defects and can reduce the chances of failures and unplanned shutdowns.

Avrenim uses drones to perform high-level inspections of buildings and their unique systems, to ensure the building is safe, secure and as operating as it should be.

Drones are beneficial for capturing video footage and photographs for assessment to identify possible issues as well as providing the opportunity to find any other problems that might have been overlooked in an initial inspection.

Drones to minimise risk and improve safety in facilities management

One other benefit to using drones in facilities management is the decrease in risk of injuries for workers and customers by avoiding accidents and injuries that may be associated with working at height.

Drones are capable of reaching extreme heights that can often be considered a risk for workers, and this takes away the risk of sending workers to extreme heights to assess facilities, check the progress of a project or sign it off.

Providing a safe and effective way to identify defects that have the potential to lead to unsafe conditions or malfunctions is essential.

Drones to reduce inspection times and costs

Drones have opened up new opportunities and generated efficiencies in the facilities management industry. Inspections of roofs, towers, hospitals and schools, to name a few, no longer require expensive scaffolding.

Drones easily capture the information you require to make timely and cost-saving decisions as well as allowing for easier, faster and inexpensive identification of faults and defects allowing repairs or replacements to be carried out quickly and efficiently, becoming aware of a potential problem or risk and developing a solution.

Working towards Net Zero

At Avrenim, we pride ourselves on pushing the net zero agenda for both ourselves and our clients. We aim to do this by providing our client’s excellent service using methods that are positive, and beneficial, for the environment.

For Avrenim customers, the use of drones will continue to bring numerous advantages to the projects we work on, ensuring maximum precision in often complex environments. Both the safety and reliability are increased due to the use of drones and the cost of materials and personnel is reduced. Drones will continue to make an essential contribution to facilities management, adding real value to Avrenim customers.