AI reducing the risk and cost
of building inspections

80% reduction in cost per meter

Increased coverage of inspection

Decrease inspection time by 70%

Industry

Asset Management

Client

Skand

AI Technique

Computer Vision on 3D models

Opportunity
Building inspections are labour intensive, costly and dangerous. Drones have been introduced to the process to address this but a person is still required to analyse the images.

Solution
Silverpond used its tool HighLighter to train software to recognise building defects on 3D models of the building from drone collected data.

Results
-Reduced the inspection costs from $0.35/metre to $0.07/metre.
-Decreased inspection time by 70%.
-Removed requirements for rooftop inspection by a person for over 600 buildings.
-Increased the total coverage of a traditional inspection from 15% to 100% of the
building’s surface area.

3D model of industrial building with defects identified

Close up of defects identified on industrial building

Skand software interface

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