Thermal Screening

The boundary

Where this scope ends.

Before it can be scheduled

Separate questions, separate answers.

• Permission to capture

  Who authorises capture of this building?

  Kinetic confirms the property owner, or an authorised agent acting for them, has approved capture before anything is scheduled — and infrared imagery counts as imagery for this purpose exactly as visible light does. The authorised area is defined in writing and missions are planned around it. This is answered separately from whether the airspace can be flown; permission from an owner does not make a flight lawful, and neither answer settles the other.

• Whether the flight works

  Can the capture legally and safely be conducted here?

  Airspace, approvals, obstructions, roof access, occupancy and conditions on the ground decide whether this can be flown or walked at all, and Kinetic resolves it before a date is offered. It is answered separately from permission to capture the building — clearance to fly says nothing about who owns the property underneath, and a ground-based capture still needs safe access.

• Whether conditions support the screening

  Will conditions in the available window support a meaningful screening?

  Temperature differential, solar loading and cooling, wind, recent precipitation, standing water, humidity, building operation and surface emissivity all govern whether a thermal pattern means anything. Kinetic schedules the capture into a window that supports the intended screening, and reschedules rather than capturing into one that does not. This is a condition on the work, not a surcharge, and it is separate from whether the flight itself is permitted.

• What it will be relied on for

  What will be decided from the screening?

  Narrowing down where to investigate, planning confirmatory testing, documenting apparent conditions, prioritising repair areas and recording a before-and-after all go to ordinary Kinetic technical review. A certification, a warranty determination, a regulatory or code determination, an engineering conclusion, or a statement of cause takes the question outside what screening can answer — Kinetic brings in a separately qualified professional, and the engagement either stops at capture and documentation or continues with that professional involved.

  Answering yes brings in a licensed partner

• Whether this is a specialty application

  Is the target a building assembly, or equipment?

  Roof and envelope screening ask where abnormal thermal patterns are on a building. Electrical equipment, mechanical equipment, rotating machinery, solar arrays and industrial assets are a different discipline with their own standards, hazards, qualifications, operating-load requirements and interpretation rules — and the business case for each has to be confirmed before Kinetic takes it on. They are never quietly added to a roof or envelope scope, never bundled into a managed programme's thermal entitlement, and never scoped as though a sensor being capable of capturing something makes it a service.

  Answering yes brings in a licensed partner

Where we run it

Markets this shows up on most.

• Data centers

  Schedule-critical, spatially large, and watched by people who are never on site. Recurring documentation across earthwork, steel, MEP, equipment pads and commissioning.

  Reality capture for data center construction→

• Industrial & logistics

  Large footprints, tight schedules, and tilt-wall and roofing sequences that reward exact repeat coverage from the same flight path.

  Industrial documentation workflows→

• Oil & gas

  Tank farms, pipe racks, flare stacks and terminals — drone visual passes instead of scaffold and rope access, scan-based existing conditions for brownfield tie-ins, and turnaround documentation while everything is open.

  Oil & gas facility capture→