Eighteen buildings across five phases, and a quad carrying twelve thousand movements a day straight past the works. Ground Reality flies the whole campus six times a week, keeps the pedestrian spine and the service tunnel on the same record as the blocks, and hands each phase over before term instead of during it.
Capture · Mission 30
The sheet above is a drawing of this. 10 capture waypoints, and every finding called as the aircraft reaches it — scroll sets the target, the mission keeps its own pace, and the page waits for it.
Sector · Campuses
Eighteen buildings across five phases, and a quad carrying twelve thousand movements a day straight past the works. One governed pass reads the spine at walking pace, the amphitheatre, the playground and a match in progress, threads the library atrium between its two bridges, and runs the spine again with the service tunnel drawn as a solid under the lawn. Then the operator crosses the reinstated paving and captures what a drone cannot: 8 mm of lippage, the invert pin at CH-02, and the 6.40 m the spine reopens at.
Twelve thousand pedestrian movements a day cross a campus that is also a construction site. Every crane lift, delivery and hoarding move puts plant and students on the same square of ground, and the walk to a nine o'clock lecture does not detour.
Capture is read for the hazards that matter on a live campus — a hoarding line breached, a crossing blocked, plant moving against the pedestrian spine — and the observation lands with the frame that shows it, assigned before the next delivery slot opens.
A term date is not a milestone, it is a fact: the students arrive on the Monday whether the block is finished or not. The programme still says September, and it says so because it said so in March.
Lookaheads are cut from measured progress across all five phases — six passes a week, block by block — so a slipping phase reads as a date against the academic calendar while there is still a vacation's worth of float to spend on it.
Chilled water, steam and IT all leave the energy centre in one 3.20 × 2.60 m tunnel under the quad. Eight years later the estates team needs a valve isolated, and the as-built says one thing while the tunnel says another.
The tunnel is walked before the lawn goes back — frames pinned to the plan within ±0.3 m, dated at the invert. It stays standing in the record long after the turf has closed over it, for whoever lifts the access cover next.
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Buildings phased around a quad that never closes
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Phases delivered against the academic calendar
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Terms that started late because a handover slipped
Five phases, one immovable calendar. The campus is flown before the first delivery, the block in build is orbited as it closes, and what runs under the lawn is walked before the turf goes back — term starts Monday 09:00 either way, and the program's job is to make that boring.
6×/week, at 06:20, before the first delivery reaches the gate
All five phases land on one capture, block by block, before the campus wakes. Progress is cut against the academic calendar, and the spine is read for the hazards that matter where plant and students share the ground.
6 LINES · 1.4CM DETAIL · 45MINBefore the lawn goes back, and at every change after
Chilled water, steam and IT are walked and pinned to the plan before the turf closes over them. The tunnel stays standing in the record for whoever lifts the access cover in year eight.
3.20×2.60M · INVERT −4.20 · PIN ±0.3MOn the block in build, as the envelope closes
The library's elevation is orbited close as it finishes, so the snag close-out runs against frames of the actual facade — five bays or fourteen, the record does not care how big the block is.
ORBIT C–C′ · 0.9CM DETAIL · 40MINEach phase, on the Saturday before term
The finished blocks are walked into the estates record the day the hoarding comes off the spine. Monday's 12,000 movements meet a whole quad, and estates starts term with the as-built instead of a box of PDFs.
BLOCKS 5 · HOARDING OFF 16:10 · TERM MON 09:00No. The pass flies at 06:20 and is done in 45 minutes, before the first delivery reaches the gate — the quad has stayed open through all five phases, and the capture is part of why.
QUAD 0.9HA · OPEN 5 PHASESBecause the lookahead is cut from measured progress, six passes a week across all five phases. A slipping phase reads as a date against the academic calendar while there is still a vacation's worth of float to spend on it.
PASSES 6/WK · SLIP READS AS A DATEThe record, every morning. Capture is read for a hoarding line breached, a crossing blocked, plant moving against the pedestrian spine — and the observation lands with the frame that shows it, assigned before the next delivery slot opens.
MOVEMENTS 12,000/DAY · SPINE 6.4M CLEARThe record, walked. Five blocks handed over on frames pinned to the plan, and the service tunnel — 3.20 × 2.60 m, chilled water, steam and IT — pinned within ±0.3 m and dated at the invert before the lawn went back over it.
BLOCKS 5 · TUNNEL PIN ±0.3MZero so far — phase 1 landed in September '21, phase 2 in September '22, phase 3 in August '24, phase 4 in January '25, every one before term. Phase 5 lands in 2027 on the same rule.
TERMS LATE 0 · P5 2027Read overnight on a campus like this one: six passes, the phase lookaheads, the spine frames, and the tunnel walk. Three of the 27 profiles wake up to it.
05:40 · PHASE 3 · LIBRARY
SEQUENCE
Snag close-out on the library runs 07:30 to 12:40 and the hoarding comes off the spine at 16:10 — hold the last delivery until the crossing reopens, and Saturday's handover stands.
CITES: PASS 06:20 · SNAG LIST · HOARDING 16:10
05:55 · SPINE · GATE TO GATE
HAZARD
Nobody walks the hoarding line to prove it holds — it reads off the 06:20 pass, and a blocked crossing on the spine lands assigned before the first delivery slot opens.
CITES: PASS 06:20 · SPINE 6.4M · TC-02 R 34.4M
07:30 · TUNNEL · INVERT −4.20
HANDOVER
The tunnel walk closes the estates record: chilled water, steam and IT pinned within ±0.3 m before the lawn goes back — the as-built and the tunnel finally say the same thing.
CITES: TUNNEL WALK 08:00 · PIN ±0.3M · ESTATES RECORD
Every frame scanned for OSHA-aligned hazards
EVERY FRAME · RANKEDLookaheads that read capture velocity, not optimism
WK-34 LOOKAHEADWeekly floor walks auto-pinned to drawings
8 FLOORS/HR · AUTO-PINNEDFaces and bodies blurred automatically before anyone sees a frame
AUTO · 100% OF FRAMESOne calendar for every autonomous capture on the portfolio
MISSIONS ON A CYCLEFigures are a specimen record, drawn to the platform's own conventions.
Send us the phasing plan and the term dates — we will fly the campus for one week, cut the lookahead against the calendar, and walk what is under the lawn before it disappears.