A cold and frosty morning in Doncaster at Blyton Park Driving Centre – out with the drones and the BBC One Show team filming an article about potholes!
The One Show’s presenter Iwan Thomas presents the piece and overseas the competition judged by some eminent people in their field, Victoria Hazael (Cycling UK), Vince Crain (The AA), Keith Jones (Institution of Civil Engineers). The filming took place on Blyton Race Track in Lincolnshire, where three large potholes were repaired and reviewed. They will be testing out pothole repair technologies on the racing circuit itself and we will be providing supporting cinematography from an aerial perspective!
Watch the One Show here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPqk2OEMYpU
Aerial Imagery on a Live Construction Site: Showing the Job to People Who Are Not There
A construction project always has more people with a stake in it than it can have standing on the site. An aerial record shows the whole plot in one frame, with the boundary, the compound, the access and the works in their correct relationship, so people who cannot get there still understand it. This piece covers that use, what flying over a live workplace actually involves, and where a visual record stops and measurement begins.
Why an Aerial Thermal Survey Is Booked Against a Window, Not a Date
An aerial thermal survey records a temperature difference, and that difference has to exist when the image is taken. Conditions are therefore not a preference but a precondition, and different assets want opposite weather: a photovoltaic array needs bright, stable sun, a building envelope needs a cold night after dark. This piece sets out what the standards ask for, why each figure exists, and what booking against a window rather than a date means in practice.
What Turns Inspection Photographs Into a Record You Can Use Later
An inspection happens on one morning, but its photographs are usually needed months later by somebody who was not there. What makes them usable then is not the drama of the aerial view. It is whether each observation is marked where it sits, whether close detail is paired with a frame that places it, whether coverage is systematic enough that absence means something, and whether the set can be navigated at all.
