Measured Building Surveys.
Combined aerial drone capture and ground-based laser scanning, delivered to RICS measured-survey standards. You receive fully-drafted 2D floor plans, elevations, and sections in DWG or RVT — ready for your architect, engineer, or planning application.
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Peter Leslie · Founder & GVC Drone Pilot
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Drone measured building survey specialisms
Floor-plan, elevation and roof-plan outputs without scaffolding or lengthy access.
Floor-plan scan prep
Exterior geometry captured to support interior scan registration and combined-plan deliverables.
Get floor-plan quotesFacade & elevation measure
Scaled elevations for listed buildings, heritage sites and high-rise facades.
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Accurate roof plans capturing pitch, ridge heights and features for planning packs.
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Registered point clouds delivered in RCP/E57 for Revit, AutoCAD and BIM workflows.
Get point-cloud quotesHand-measured surveys belong in the 1990s.
Architects and QS teams still routinely receive measured surveys that miss roof geometry, skew on elevations, and arrive weeks late. Combined aerial and ground capture fixes all three.
Missing Roof & High-Level Detail
A ground-only surveyor guesses at ridge heights, chimney positions, and parapet offsets. Drone capture gives a measurable model of every roof plane — essential for planning applications and rooftop alterations.
Elevation Drawings That Don't Line Up
Hand-measured elevations often drift by 50–100mm over a facade. Photogrammetric orthographic views are dimensionally correct to millimetre tolerances, so your architect doesn't spend half the fee re-measuring.
Listed & Complex Geometry
Heritage work demands documentation a tape measure cannot produce — curved masonry, bay windows, oriels, decorative parapets. A combined drone and scanner workflow captures all of it in a single site visit.
A measured survey isn't a drawing exercise. It's a legal record.
By Peter Leslie, Founder & GVC Drone Pilot
Connect on LinkedInYour measured building survey is what the architect, structural engineer, party-wall surveyor, and planning officer will all base their work on. Any error you accept here is an error that propagates through every drawing, cost plan, and build decision downstream.
That's why we only match this type of work with drone operators who pair their CAA OA with a ground survey partner running a Leica or Trimble scanner. The drone picks up the roof and the high-level facade, the scanner handles the interior. Both datasets get registered together in Revit or AutoCAD.
The outputs conform to RICS measured-survey Band C or better, and every drawing references the control network used to capture it.
RICS-Aligned Outputs
Drone + Laser Scanner Teams
Deliverables your design team can draw into.
Every measured survey comes back as native CAD or Revit files, not just PDFs.
2D Floor Plans
Fully-drafted floor plans for every level in DWG, layered per the client's CAD standard. Room labels, window and door schedules, and floor-to-ceiling heights included as standard.
Elevations & Sections
Dimensionally-correct elevations and cross-sections cut from the registered point cloud. Delivered in DWG with true heights, eaves, and ridge lines that stand up to planning-officer scrutiny.
Revit (RVT) Model
Optional native Revit model at LOD 200 or 300, ready for your architect to extend into design. Walls, floors, roofs, doors, and windows modelled as parametric families, not dumb lines.
From brief to drawings in 3 steps.
One site visit, one combined dataset, one coherent set of drawings.
Define the Scope
Confirm the building, the gross floor area, the level of detail (RICS Band), and whether you need 2D CAD, Revit, or both. We translate this into a tight brief.
Combined Site Capture
The matched team flies the exterior and scans the interior in a single coordinated visit. Ground control and scan registration are agreed on-site.
Drafted Drawings
CAD technicians draft the deliverables from the registered dataset, QA to RICS tolerances, and issue DWG and RVT files within an agreed turnaround.
Measured Building Survey FAQ
Accuracy, interiors, and listed-building protocols — answered.
What accuracy can I expect, and does it meet RICS standards?
How do you capture the interior if the drone only flies outside?
Can you work on listed buildings and heritage sites?
What's the typical turnaround for a completed drawing set?
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