Know What You Have - Then Plan What Comes Next
How a popular local club gained a complete picture of the roofing fabric - and put it to work across maintenance, auditing and insurance.
For any venue managing a complex building, understanding the true condition of its roofing fabric is the starting point for everything that follows - budgeting, maintenance planning, contractor oversight, and insuruance. The challenge is gaining that understanding without the costly access and disruption to the venue itself.
Three Weave conducted a full aerial survey of a large social club's, external roof across its entire footprint - a complex arrangement of multiple extensions and roof spans, including gabled and flat sections - captured in 230 high-resolution images. The resulting report gave the club a clear, prioritised view of areas requiring continued observation and those where targeted preventative mainenance would deliver the most value within annual budget.
The survey also served a second, equally valuable purpose: the detailed imagery was used to assess and audit recent roofing work carried out by a contractor - providing the club with an independent visual record of the standard and extent of that work. This kind of retrospective verification is rarely straightforward with aerial access.
Crucially, the report did not remain solely with the client. The club’s insurance broker was also given sight of the imagery and findings, enabling them to advise on and contribute to the venue’s preventative maintenance protocols - a genuinely collaborative approach to protecting the asset that benefits all parties.
REGULATORY COMPLIANCE
The surveyed club lies within a Flight Restriction Zone associated with a nearby nuclear processing facility. Operating within and FRZ requires formal CAA permissions. It is also customary to notify nearby airports, even if outside their FRZ, of which there were two. Three Weave managed the entire regulatory and permissions process on behalf of the client - ensuring the survey was conducted fully within the applicable legal framework with zero administrative burden placed on the club.
