Hovafly’s founders have been working within the construction and property sectors as project managers, surveyors, building contractors and property developers since 2005.

We adopted aerial technology as a means to solve an inspection challenge in 2017, whilst undertaking a major refurbishment project in Ilfracombe, North Devon that presented significant access challenges due to both the height and position of the structure.

We immediately realised the benefits aerial tech could bring, and started to build our knowledge and experience base. What we agreed from the outset was that it was critical that such a resource should co-exist with existing construction and surveying skill sets in order to deliver the most useful and cost-effective outcomes for us, and for our clients.

In 2021 we decided we had sufficient experience and, maybe more importantly, a clear vision of how we intended to operate – to create a company dedicated to supplying professional, cost-effective aerial surveying services with the right balance between surveying, drone operation and reporting skill sets.

We believe that having both our inspection and analysis teams in-house is crucial to being able to offer a high quality output while keeping costs low, and that a multi-asset inspection process is a significant key to unlocking material cost efficiencies. We also passionately believe in delivering an output to clients that is accessible, dynamic and above all, relevant to how people receive and understand information and media in the digital age.