Construction projects move fast. One week can look very different from the next, and keeping track of that progress is not always easy on a large or complex site. Scheduled flights capture the whole site from the same positions every visit, so week-over-week change is obvious instead of anecdotal.
Each visit produces full-site aerial photography, orthomosaic maps you can measure off, and 4K video and timelapse footage for stakeholder presentations and marketing. Progress work runs from Oklahoma City to Tahlequah on projects including OKANA Resort, Hope Lodge, and Scissortail Park, for general contractors, project managers, developers, engineering teams, and owners.
The value of progress work is comparability. Same positions, same altitude, same interval — so change is obvious instead of anecdotal.
The whole site captured from the same points every visit, so week-over-week comparison is a slider rather than an argument.
A georeferenced top-down map of the site each visit, accurate enough to measure off and compare against the drawings.
A cut aerial pass of the site for stakeholder updates and board packs, shot to the same route each time.
The full build compressed into a sequence, assembled from the fixed-position captures across the whole programme.
Finished imagery for pre-leasing, investor decks, and press, shot on the same visits as the record set.
Scheduled
Repeat site flights
cm-level
RTK positioning accuracy
24-48 h
Typical turnaround
The first visit does the thinking. Every visit after that repeats it exactly, which is the only way the sequence means anything.
Capture points, altitudes, and the grid are fixed on the first visit, chosen to cover the site now and once it's built out. Getting this wrong on visit one costs you the whole sequence.
BaselineRepeat visits at an agreed interval, flown to the same plan regardless of who's on site or what stage the build is at. Consistency is the deliverable.
ScheduledStills, orthomosaic, and video from each visit processed the same way, so the outputs line up against the previous month rather than needing reconciliation.
ComparableA progress package per visit for the owner, the PM, and the investor update, plus the running timelapse for handover and marketing.
24-48 hOne flight, several audiences — each wanting a different thing out of the same visit.
Site-wide coordination, trade sequencing, and a dated record of what was in place when — which is what settles a delay claim.
Independent evidence of progress against programme, without relying on the site's own reporting.
A monthly visual update that a non-technical audience can read in thirty seconds and actually believe.
Measurable orthomosaics to check as-built against design while it's still cheap to correct.
Progress documentation on OKANA Resort, the new Cherokee hospital, Andretti Indoor Karting & Games, Coca-Cola, and Hope Lodge in downtown Oklahoma City — alongside Manhattan Construction, GE Johnson Construction, and the Cherokee Nation.
Also Scissortail Park and a shopping centre at NW 178th & Portland. These are multi-visit programmes rather than one-off shoots, which is what makes the record worth having.
OKANA Resort · ProgressProgress capture over the OKANA Resort build, Oklahoma City.
OKANA · OrthomosaicMeasurable site orthomosaic from the same visit — the record half of the deliverable.
Framing StageMid-rise framing captured from a fixed position, repeated month over month.
Monthly suits most programmes; fast-moving phases or contested schedules justify more often. What matters more than frequency is that the interval is consistent, because an irregular record is much harder to argue from.
Yes — each visit produces a georeferenced orthomosaic with RTK positioning and ground control verification, so it can be measured against the drawings rather than just looked at.
Dated, georeferenced site records are routinely useful when a programme is contested, because they establish what was in place and when without relying on anyone's recollection.
Happy to do both, and on most sites we do. Flights are planned around live activity, crane movements, and lift schedules, and the operator works to your site rules like any other subcontractor.
It's assembled from the fixed-position captures across the whole programme and handed over at completion — usually the piece that ends up at the opening and in the marketing.
Yes. Progress work has run from Oklahoma City out to Tahlequah, and we travel for multi-site programmes. Travel is quoted up front rather than added afterwards.
