Orthomosaic progress maps, stockpile volumes, cut/fill tracking and as-built documentation — delivered as a report your PM can forward to the client. Measured ground first — and if you want the cinematic flythrough too, that’s the same site visit.
Measurements your PM can bill against, priced off the work each job actually takes. Flat fee per job, never hourly — CAD, before HST. Starting prices cover sites up to 20 ha (about 50 acres) within 45 km of London; bigger sites and longer trips are quoted before you commit.
Weekly or monthly orthomosaic capture with timeline comparison. Branded PDF progress report with annotations, plus a shareable interactive map link for the owner, the PM and the client.
Data files included: GeoTIFF orthomosaic & elevation models, LAZ point cloud — CAD/GIS-ready, EPSG:32617 (UTM 17N).
Drone capture, then volumes computed from a photogrammetric surface model. Branded report with tonnage estimates and comparison against your previous surveys — flown the same pattern and altitude every visit, so the change between them is what you can act on. Covers up to six piles per site; additional piles $45 each.
Existing conditions before you price the job. Orthomosaic plus basic topo, access routes, drainage and utility visibility. Bid off measured ground instead of a windshield survey.
Regular capture through grading and excavation. Cut/fill volumes measured against the design surface, so over-excavation gets caught while it's still cheap to fix.
Final site condition captured for closeout, warranty or handover. The record of what was actually built, on the day it was finished.
Sheltered operations under the Advanced certificate — close-in flight around structures. Wide and telephoto cameras on the Matrice 4E pull detail from roofs, drainage and hard-to-reach assets, plus video of the roofline, delivered as an annotated findings report.
FPV jobsite flythroughs, progress films and documentary work are handled by the production side of the business, Buildmode Studio. Book a capture and a shoot on the same site visit — ask when you enquire.
You don't touch any of it. Flight planning, airspace clearance and the site survey are handled before the truck arrives.
Airspace review and clearance. The Advanced certificate covers controlled airspace, so a nearby airport isn't a blocker.
20–40 minutes on an automated grid pattern, flown on a DJI Matrice 4E. A GNSS base station goes up on site first, so every image is RTK-positioned as it is taken. Site sign-in, PPE, and a written hazard assessment before the first launch.
Raw imagery becomes an orthomosaic and elevation model. Volumes, annotations and timeline comparisons built from it.
Branded PDF report plus a shareable interactive map link. In your inbox within 48 hours.
Flying under RPAS Operator Certificate OC2623804121, against a written operations manual, with aviation liability and CGL bound. Both certificates provided before the flight if your site requires them.
Twenty minutes over your site, and a sample of the output within 48 hours — a set of stills, a clipped section of orthomosaic and one page of a real report, so you can see the quality and the format before you spend anything.
It is a sample, not a deliverable: no full-site map, no volumes, no measured quantities. Those are the paid work. This is so you are not buying it blind.
Want to see what you would actually get? Open a sample deliverable — the interactive map, 3D model and full five-page report from a real RTK capture of an active London-area subdivision, with the site identity withheld. Or download just the report (PDF).
If the sample doesn't look like something worth paying for, say so and I'll stop emailing you.
First clients set the template for how these reports get built — and get my time on the phone while that is still true.
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You'll get a reply with a couple of dates that work. If your site has airspace restrictions I'll sort the clearance before I confirm.
Caleb Maudsley — licensed carpenter, 30 years on jobsites: tools first, then the management and business side. Transport Canada Advanced RPAS pilot certificate (PC-2036360534).
Which means the person reading your site isn't a photographer who learned what a footing is last week. Progress maps get annotated in language a PM can forward without translating, and the flight plan accounts for the crane swing radius because I've worked under one.
Buildmode Aerial Mapping is the operating name of Build Mode Digital Inc., based in London, Ontario. Aerial site documentation is the whole of what the company does.
Mapping is flown on a DJI Matrice 4E — a 4/3 mapping camera with a mechanical shutter, plus two telephoto cameras for inspection detail — paired with a DJI D-RTK 3 GNSS station that runs as the on-site RTK base and as the rover for setting ground control and check points.
The company holds a Transport Canada RPAS Operator Certificate, OC2623804121, issued under CAR 901.214. That is a certificate held by the business, against a written operations manual, not just a pilot licence held by a person — most operators quoting your job have only the licence. In plain terms: the certificate, the insurance and the invoice all name the same company — and on site I sign in and work to your health and safety program like any other subtrade.