Most drone operators are pilots who learned about buildings. We're the opposite. Nationwide Drones was founded by trained building surveyors who picked up the drone because it solved a problem we'd been working around for years.
Owen Jenkins has been using drones in surveying since 2012, when the regulatory framework was a single sheet of paper and the hardware was the size of a coffee table. The case for aerial inspection was already obvious to anyone who'd spent an afternoon waiting for scaffolding.
Nationwide Drones grew out of that work. Today we operate across the UK with a central team that scopes, plans, captures, processes and reports, same project manager, same pipeline, same software. From Plymouth to Inverness.
Nationwide Drones operates in partnership with AIM Platform, sharing operations and ownership. AIM is the asset information software used to host, share and deliver the data we capture. Two brands, one approach: capture it, make it useful, hand it back to the people who manage the building.
Trained surveyor. Has been using drones in commercial surveying since 2012, before the CAA had a permission framework for it. Oversees operations, pilot accreditation, and our CAA permissions and operating procedures.
Our enhanced CAA permissions lets us fly closer, longer, and in more demanding environments than standard permissions allow. Critical for working in urban environments and around live property.
The person planning the flight is the person who'll read the data. We see what the deliverable needs to show before we're in the air.
One project manager, one scoping process, one pipeline. From the south coast to the Highlands, your brief stays intact.
Visual, thermal and laser experts. Every flight feeds AIM Platform for processing, hosting, and team-wide access, no per-seat licensing.
Powered by AIM
AIM Platform is the software we use to deliver everything we capture. Same parent company, same team, same office. If your captured data sits unused on a shared drive somewhere, AIM is what changes that.
Quotes are scoped by the person who'd be on site. Tell us what you need to see, we'll tell you how we'd capture it.
