We were delighted to be invited to come and film alongside the team from the BBC’s The One Show down at the Swanage Railway.
We were part of an article that they were creating regarding the rejoining of the Swanage train station to the main railway line, something that’s been achieved through a huge amount of work by a team of volunteers in a large part. We were to provide aerial footage of the beautiful steam engine puffing its way along the route – the chocolate box Dorset countryside and you really couldn’t ask for a more picturesque backdrop.
A very friendly farmer allowed us to use his field as a takeoff and landing site as it was adjacent to the rail track, giving us the opportunity to get beautiful views of the train as it headed over from Corfe Castle towards Swanage. Then we moved off to Norden station where we were able to interact even more closely with the train as it left the current final station on the line, filming almost trackside to create rising views of the drone disappearing into the steam plumes as the engine chugged beneath.
Despite relatively high winds on the day, our Matrice and Inspire fleet of craft were more than equal to the task of creating stable and stylish footage to capture both the engine and the environment with plenty pieces of the footage being used in the finished piece on BBC 1.
Reading Roof Insulation From the Air: Tiles, Loft and a Cold Sky
On most pitched roofs a ventilated loft sits between the tiles and the insulation, so an aerial thermal image of the roof is an indirect view of what lies beneath. This piece explains how cold and warm roofs read differently from the air, why the cold night sky is reflected by and draws heat from every roof surface, and which checks turn a warm patch on a roof into a finding worth investigating further inside the loft.
Before and After: Can a Thermal Survey Show That a Retrofit Worked?
A retrofit is usually justified before it starts and assumed after it finishes. A matched pair of thermal surveys, one before the work and one after, can show whether the building envelope behaves differently, but only if the two are genuinely comparable. This post covers why the baseline has to come first, what has to match between the two surveys, and what the pair can and cannot honestly claim.
Thermal Bridging in Commercial and Industrial Buildings
On a steel framed, clad commercial building, thermal bridging rarely appears as a single fault. It shows as a regular pattern that follows the fixings, panel joints, rooflights and the base of the wall. This article explains why that repeat is the baseline rather than the finding, what a departure from it tends to look like, why heating across large buildings has to be understood first, and why bare metal needs careful handling on an aerial thermal survey.
