Eighty-four hectares behind one gate: 1,240 homes in six phases, a clubhouse that lands in phase 6, and a boundary wall that has to be up before the first buyer drives in. Ground Reality flies the whole master plan twice a week — platforms, plinths, roofs, gatehouse — so every plot's stage, and the date it hands over, comes off the same capture.
Capture · Mission 24
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 · Communities
Through the arch, up the boulevard between its avenues, down the street still in build — platforms, slabs, frames, roofs, render, in that order — then four metres over the lake and round the cycle track. One governed pass reads every street inside the gate; then the operator walks the clubhouse lawn to the boardwalk and captures what a drone cannot: the terrace fall, the deck gap, the settled revetment toe.
A master plan starts as a cut-and-fill exercise, and plot platforms get set from a level book written before the road alignment moved. By the time a plinth is 300 mm out, the driveway falls the wrong way and the storm drain has nowhere to go.
Each capture gives the surface as it stands, meshed against the design platform: cut and fill by phase, by street and by plot, to ±1.5%. Muck is balanced inside the boundary instead of trucked out and bought back, and the plot that will not drain is named while it is still earth.
A gated development is one set of gangs cycling 1,240 homes. Send the blockwork crew to a street where the frame is still propped and the week is gone — and three months later nobody can say which street it went on.
Crews are planned and dispatched against the stage each plot has actually reached, read off the weekly capture rather than off a foreman's list. The plan names the street, the gang and the day, and a plot that is not ready surfaces before the gang is standing in front of it.
The compound wall is up, the gate is hung, and the buyer walks their home for the first time. Eleven things get written on a sheet of paper at the gatehouse, and three of them are still open at the second visit.
Anything wrong is raised where it stands — photograph, plot, trade, due date — and closed with the evidence attached to it. Handover runs at 0.4 open items a plot, and the ones that hold a closing are visible to the site manager the same hour instead of at the end of the week.
1,240
Homes on one master plan, staged off one capture
6
Phases handed over street by street through one gate
14 MO
Measured gate-to-close cycle, earthworks to keys
Everything on this program goes through one gate — the flight lands before the queue forms, the pour window is booked against it, and the board is rebuilt before it closes for the night. Fourteen months, earthworks to keys, and the record never leaves the wall.
2×/week, at 06:20, before the gate queue forms
One capture takes the whole master plan — platforms, plinths, roofs, gatehouse — in 38 minutes. Every plot's stage, and the date it hands over, comes off the same flight.
84 HA · 1.1CM DETAIL · 38MINEvery flight, while the phase is still earth
Each plot platform is meshed against design — cut and fill by phase, by street, by plot. Muck is balanced inside the boundary instead of trucked out and bought back, and the plot that will not drain is named while it is still earth.
PLATFORMS 212 · CUT/FILL ±1.5%On the plots at finishes, before the compound wall goes up
The serpentine reads the elevation close enough to snag it. Handover runs at 0.4 open items a plot, closed in 2.1 days with the evidence attached — before the buyer walks it, not after.
96 STATIONS · 0.4CM DETAIL · PLOT 3-042Every capture, board rebuilt by 17:50
Crews are planned against the stage each plot has actually reached. The plan names the street, the gang and the day, and a plot that is not ready surfaces before the gang is standing in front of it.
PLOTS 212 · CREWS 40 · DISPATCH DAILYYes. The master plan is flown in 38 minutes at 1.1 cm detail — 212 plots in phase 3 staged off it, 1,240 homes across six phases on one record, and the gatehouse on the same sheet as the farthest street.
HOMES 1,240 · PHASES 6 · 38MINBy measuring them while they are still earth. Cut and fill reads to ±1.5% by phase, street and plot, so muck moves inside the boundary instead of out the gate — and the platform set from a stale level book is caught before the plinth is on it.
PLATFORMS 212 · CUT/FILL ±1.5%Dispatch runs against the stage each plot has reached on the capture, not against a foreman's list. The plan names the street, the gang and the day — and the frame that is still propped surfaces before the blockwork crew arrives at it.
CREWS 40 · DISPATCH DAILYOn the gate's clock. The roof pour on plot 3-044 was booked into a window — 26 m³, one pump, gate held 07:10 to 10:30 — and the last truck cleared before the street went back to the people who live on it.
POUR WINDOW 07:10–10:30 · 26M³Quiet. Snags run at 0.4 open items a plot, raised where they stand with the photograph and the trade attached, closed in 2.1 days — and the one that would hold a closing is visible the same hour, not at the end of the week.
SNAGS 0.4/PLOT · CLOSED 2.1DThe cycle is measured at 14 months, gate to close, and closings land on their date 98% of the time — phase 3B closes 14 Nov because the board has said so all year, plot by plot.
GATE→CLOSE 14MO · ON DATE 98%Read overnight behind a gate like this one: two flights, the platform meshes, the pour log, and every open item in phase 3. Three of the 27 profiles wake up to it.
05:40 · GATE 01 · PHASE 3B
SEQUENCE
The pour window on 3-044 opens at 07:10 — 26 m³, one pump, gate booked to 10:30. Hold the blockwork deliveries for 3-045 until the last truck clears.
CITES: POUR WINDOW 07:10 · GATE 01 · FLIGHT 06:20
05:55 · PHASE 3A · OCCUPIED
HAZARD
Thirteen plots in phase 3 are lived in, and the pour traffic shares their street — the trucks hold to the 07:10–10:30 window, and the gate record shows the last one out.
CITES: GATE 01 RECORD · 13 CLOSED · POUR WINDOW
06:55 · MASTER PLAN · 6 PHASES
CASH
Fourteen months of land cost turns at the gate: phase 3B closes 14 Nov on a measured cycle, and every closing carries its walk — 0.4 open items a plot, closed in 2.1 days.
CITES: BOARD 17:50 · CLOSE 14 NOV · SNAGS 0.4/PLOT
Earthworks quantities and stockpile volumes reconciled against design
VOLUME ±1.8% · NIGHTLYThe right crew on the right day, portfolio-wide
UTIL 87%Anything seen, logged, assigned, and closed
MEAN TTR 4.1HSurvey-grade 2D maps from any drone flight
1.8CM DETAIL · 214 HA/FLIGHTLookaheads that read capture velocity, not optimism
WK-34 LOOKAHEADFigures are a specimen record, drawn to the platform's own conventions.
Send us the master plan and the phase lines — we will fly it twice in one week and hand you the platform balance, the stage board, and the plots that will not drain.