Simam Digital live demo
Simam Spatial
Construction: a measured, dated record of progress inside and out, from a phone walk and a drone flight. It is a demonstration we built ourselves: no client commissioned it, and anything marked sample is made up and says so on screen.
How it was made
A site manager, a client's monitoring surveyor or a lender needs to know what has actually been built, floor by floor, without arranging a visit or relying on a photo folder nobody can measure. We took a 33-second phone walk through the ground floor of an eight-storey block under construction, and a 15-second drone flight round the outside, and turned each into a 3D you can walk or orbit in a browser, joined at the entrance. Inside, the blockwork is the ruler: six courses of 250 mm blocks measure 1.48 m against 1.50 m known, so openings, corridors and walls measure off it. Outside, a 16.5 m lorry in the yard sets the scale for the storeys, the roof slab, the balconies and the crane. Fifteen progress items are pinned where they are, each with its status read from the footage, and blockwork can be followed floor by floor: done to level 4, under way on level 5. The same record then explains the building: every element with its size and where that size came from, the wall, floor and roof layers today against finished, and what the block could look like in six months, a year and two years, every one of those pictures marked as an AI visualisation. Repeat the walk and the flight each week and progress becomes something you can measure from anywhere.
- Six block courses: 1.48 m. 6 courses of 250 mm: the check that sets the scale inside, about ±3%
- Window opening, back room: 0.90 m wide. Measured off the blockwork, not against a drawing
- Corridor: 2.18 m wide
- Storeys: 8. Counted from the slab edges in three parts of the facade
- Ground storey: about 3.5 m. On a ground floor raised 1.3 m above the yard
- Upper floor to floor: about 2.85 m. ±0.15 m, from the slab edges
- Height to the roof slab: about 24.7 m. ±1.25 m; scale from a 16.5 m articulated lorry in the yard (about ±5%). The roof works on top reach about 26.3 m
- Balconies: 1.2 to 1.7 m. How far three balcony slabs project beyond the block wall
- Facade in view: about 76 m. Along the wavy front, ±4 m
- Tower crane: about 33 m
- Blockwork: Done to level 4. Under way on level 5, not started on 6 to 8; frame done on every floor
- Yard materials: about 93 m² of insulation, about 32 m² of paving. Found in the 3D by colour, the insulation in three places: an AI reading, to check on site
- Progress items pinned: 15. 4 done, 7 in progress, 4 not started: an AI reading of the footage, to check on site
- Footage: 33 s walk, 15 s flight. 32 m walked; each 3D checked on frames it was not built from (28.0 dB inside, 27.4 dB outside)
What it will not tell you
Stock footage of an unnamed site, with people, brands and logos blurred. Scale comes from the blocks inside (about ±3%) and a lorry outside (about ±5%); there is no survey control. The floor plan is drawn from one walk, so rooms only glimpsed are patchy. Progress statuses and yard materials are AI readings of the footage, to check on site, and the trade percentages in the film are samples, not measurements. Layer build-ups marked typical are typical for this kind of frame, to confirm against the drawings. The future views, the finished room and the cutaway are AI visualisations: not measurements, and not the design. Inside and outside are two separate 3Ds joined at the entrance. A measurement taken from a capture is a guide: where a figure matters legally or commercially, the surveyed number rules, and nothing here replaces an inspection.
Want this for your own site?
A drone flight or a walk-through of a real site becomes a scene like this, in a browser with nothing to install. See what the work involves or tell us about your site.
