INDUSTRIES · FACADES
Periodic facade inspections, with the Competent Person in the office.
For PE firms running BCA periodic facade inspections in Singapore. Your operator flies and your facade inspector (FI) stays on site. The Competent Person (CP) directs the flight, raises the findings and issues the report, without travelling to each building.
01THE PROBLEM
A two-hour flight costs the CP a day. Travel, waiting and a small screen outdoors, for every building on the list.
Travel to every site.
The CP and facade inspector go to each building and stand beside the operator for the whole flight.
Judged on a small screen, outdoors.
Details are hard to see on a controller in daylight, which risks errors and re-flights.
Others can't take part.
Remote experts and the owner can't see the flight, so issues get missed or re-explained.
Fewer jobs per CP.
Each building takes a day of the CP's calendar before the report is even started.
02REGULATION
What the regulation asks for, and how Skyhost fits it. Skyhost doesn't change who is responsible. It changes where the CP can be while supervising.
…in the presence of the appointed competent person, or a façade inspector who is under the direct supervision and control of the appointed competent person
to personally review all photographs, images, readings or reports produced from the equipment or device used
- PRESENCE
- The facade inspector attends on site, under the CP's supervision, as today
- SUPERVISION AND CONTROL
- The CP is in the live session with two-way audio to the operator and the FI for the whole flight
- PERSONAL REVIEW
- The CP reviews every frame in Skyhost, and each review is logged with name and time
- RECORDS
- Photos, findings and the report stay on the building's project record
BCA · PFI
Buildings over 13 m and more than 20 years old
CYCLE
Every 7 years
BCA · TR 78
Technical reference covering drone-based facade capture
FORMS
Reports drafted into BCA forms, such as BR_PFI04
03WORKFLOW
Schedule, fly, review, report in days. The same four steps on every building.
Today
Coordinate the booking
Engineer, operator, facade inspector, building management.
Engineer travels to site
Half a day per building.
Flight and on-site assessment
Judged on a controller screen.
Photo handover
Drive or download link, sorted by hand.
Review and write the report
Typed from scratch.
Several weeks
With Skyhost
Schedule the inspection
One booking, everyone invited from it.
Live flight, engineer in the office
Directs the operator and sees defects live. No travel.
Photos in one place
Uploaded into the inspection project.
Review and draft the report
Findings raised, report drafted, engineer signs.
Days
04FLIGHT PORTAL
One flight, everyone in it. The CP in the office, the FI on site, the owner watching.
05FINDINGS
The defects a PFI looks for, marked on the frame they were seen in. Your firm's defect list, your severity scale.
Region drawn on the frame.
Area calculated in m².
Defect type.
From your firm's defect list.
Severity.
Critical, major, minor or observation.
Already on the record.
Frame ID, pass and timecode, filled in for you.
06REPORT
Drafted into BCA forms. Shown here: Form BR_PFI04, completion of remedial works.
Your template.
Shown here: BCA Form BR_PFI04.
Before photos from the flight.
Keyed to the frame they came from.
Export or publish.
PDF, or published to the project.
- FINDING F-10
- Section 2.1, photographic report, with the before photo from the north facade pass
- DECLARATION
- Standard declaration by the Competent Person
- SUMMARY
- Section 1, executive summary
- AFTER PHOTOS
- Uploaded against the same reference once works are signed off
07SAMPLE PROJECT
Meridian Court, the sample building in our demo. Illustrative. Not a real building record.
08FOR OWNERS AND MCSTS
Watch your building's inspection as it happens. Then keep the report where the next cycle can find it.
Join from anywhere.
Your representative gets a link from the booking. There's nothing to install.
Ask while the drone is there.
Questions get answered on the day, not by email a week later.
One record per building.
Reports and findings from each cycle stay together for the next inspection.
Facade questions
Can the CP supervise remotely under the PFI regulations?
The regulations require the CP, or a facade inspector under the CP's direct supervision and control, to be present. With Skyhost the facade inspector stays on site and the CP supervises live. Skyhost doesn't change who is responsible. Check with BCA if you're unsure about a specific building.
Does the report follow BCA's format?
Reports are drafted into the BCA forms set up for your firm. The CP reviews, makes the declaration and publishes.
Which drones work?
Any DJI drone your operator already flies, through its controller app, and other drones that can send RTMP.
Can the building owner watch?
Yes. Invite them from the booking and they join from a browser.
Does Skyhost carry out the inspection?
No. Your firm does. Skyhost provides the session, the review tools and the report.
Who flies the drone?
Your operator flies, under your permits and insurance. Your firm runs the inspection.