Visual Documentation Services
913-384-9369
PHOTO
P-Tn Visual Documentation Services include three basic groups. PHOTO is about using traditional photography, or still image capture. We are professional photographers, so we are all about taking pictures. CLICK THE PHOTO – see where we’ve been!
Over the years (four decades and counting…) we have developed a specialized business niche in heavy construction and engineering-design industries. Starting with Pre and Post-Construction photography of existing conditions along pipeline routes or street improvement projects, it also includes construction ProgressPHOTOS, as well as Post-Construction or finished project “final” photography. We also deliver a variety of non-construction photography, such as aerials, architectural, marketing, candid portraiture, and other still imagery. Don’t forget to have P-Tn document the HAUL ROUTES to and from your project site. View this EXAMPLE.
As digital technology developed, and advanced so dramatically in the last decade, we have moved from traditional film capture, and are now working in all-digital technology for capture and delivery of our imagery, using our LANDING APP system (below) … read on!
DIGITAL
P-Tn Visual Documentation DIGITAL group includes the advanced techniques we have developed
for all-digital capture and all-digital delivery of our photographic (and video) imagery.
NO MORE FILM at P-Tn! – and we provide higher quality professional images using modern digital technology.
Our LANDING APP is the heart of our system, providing a no-paper approach to delivery, and ease in viewing your documentation images – click this image to learn more. By linking your photos & videos directly to project plan sheets, this digital aspect of our services may be the most beneficial of all. Owner Training Session video recordings are delivered the same way, making them easily accessible for reference by future personnel.
M-E-P In-WALL or As-BUILT service, which records all Mechanical-Electrical-Plumbing inside walls and ceilings prior to demolition or before drywall enclosure, is a uniquely digital method for creating a permanent archive that records the heart of your structure.
for all-digital capture and all-digital delivery of our photographic (and video) imagery.
NO MORE FILM at P-Tn! – and we provide higher quality professional images using modern digital technology.
Our LANDING APP is the heart of our system, providing a no-paper approach to delivery, and ease in viewing your documentation images – click this image to learn more. By linking your photos & videos directly to project plan sheets, this digital aspect of our services may be the most beneficial of all. Owner Training Session video recordings are delivered the same way, making them easily accessible for reference by future personnel.
M-E-P In-WALL or As-BUILT service, which records all Mechanical-Electrical-Plumbing inside walls and ceilings prior to demolition or before drywall enclosure, is a uniquely digital method for creating a permanent archive that records the heart of your structure.
VIDEO
P-Tn Visual Documentation also includes VIDEO capture, primarily producing Pre-Construction documentation of existing damage and site conditions along pipelines or street improvements, and building project sites. Video is used instead of (or in addition to) still photographs. Basic coverage delivers a contiguous record of the construction zone and adjacent properties. With full-service protection, you can rely upon us to look for, then video record and professionally describe, any existing concerns which may come into question during or after construction. Post-Construction videos create a confirming record that the site was fully restored.
Don’t forget to have P-Tn document the HAUL ROUTES to and from your project site. Our special VIDEO mount permits us to quickly & economically record the surface conditions along miles of routes that your heavy equipment may use – don’t get blamed for bad roads that you did NOT damage. View this EXAMPLE.
Don’t forget to have P-Tn document the HAUL ROUTES to and from your project site. Our special VIDEO mount permits us to quickly & economically record the surface conditions along miles of routes that your heavy equipment may use – don’t get blamed for bad roads that you did NOT damage. View this EXAMPLE.
We also produce professional quality VideoRECORDS of Owner Training Sessions on mechanical systems in new-building construction. These on-site recordings, with quality audio, delivered on our LANDING APP, give the owner a useful tool for facilities management and future personnel training. View this EXAMPLE.
The newest addition to our video services line-up involves UAS Drone AERIAL video recordings.
BIDS & SPECIFICATIONS
WE ARE ASSISTING SEVERAL FIRMS/MUNICIPALITIES in UPDATING THEIR SPECS
P-Tn’s wide selection of photo – digital – video capabilities in our service line-up has applications throughout the construction and engineering industries. Our staff researches local and regional construction projects to find specification requirements for photographic or video documentation – and we submit formal proposals for that work whenever possible. Whether called for in the specs, or a consideration for your own protection and archives, you are encouraged to contact us to request a quotation for Visual Documentation of your project.
The project specifications on many current projects contain wording created or edited by our staff, detailing requirements for shooting and submitting project photos, videos, and related documents. We offer assistance in revising or updating specifications, and we are available to inform estimators & designers of current processes and technology for professional Visual Documentation.
Please contact our staff to be involved in this rewrite process by sharing input on what you WANT, or DON’T want!
Download this BASIC SPEC WORDING starter sheet, or CLICK HERE to download (our older) spec suggestions.
ProgressWEBCAM
Our ProgressWEBCAM Site Monitoring Systems offer a unique and effective approach to viewing activities on construction or development projects – local or remote. Through a customized ARCHIVEpics INTERFACE, our clients access images captured throughout each work day, showing general on-site activity, plus options for sharing and analysis of those PICS. An edited Time-Lapse Movie of the build is updated throughout construction; a marketing-quality version is delivered after completion.
We offer design, installation, start-up, and hosting of our ProgressWEBCAM systems, with turnkey options for client-mountable units, or trailers outfitted with masts and solar power units. Learn more …
Start-up costs can begin as low as $1,450, with monthly hosting fees as low as $420 to $485 – T-M-S Solar-power Trailers are available, too.
M-E-P In-WALL or As-BUILT ARCHIVE
Simply put, M-E-P In-WALL or As-BUILT Documentation creates a photographic record of virtually every square foot of all walls and ceiling spaces in your new construction – just after final inspection, and prior to enclosure with drywall or ceiling tiles. This record shows the location, type, and installation details of all Mechanical-Electrical-Plumbing systems within a new building. Future maintenance, remodeling, and repairs are facilitated by knowing exactly what is located inside the walls, and above the ceilings. It can be expanded to include images before concrete is poured for floors and columns.
Our LANDING APP again delivers this extensive documentation in an all-digital format that permits easy viewing of any photography, simply by using the original plan sheets from construction. This same type of total-structure documentation can be a valuable asset as a pre-demolition record on renovation projects. Read more …
![In-WALL or As-BUILT of M-E-P [Mechanical-Electrical-Plumbing]](http://p-tn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/WALK-Spagesm2-1024x682.jpg)
Owner Training Video
Training of Owner Personnel on the operation and maintenance of mechanical equipment systems and other new-building operations is an important aspect of project closeout. Often, these sessions must be video recorded for the owner’s permanent archiving, and for their future use – a quality presentation can be a valuable P/R delivery to a satisfied client.
Not only do we handle this important closeout item for you, but we will deliver those videos on our LANDING APP, organized and accessible by session title, for playback on any PC computer! Best of all, our professional recording procedures provide quality video in on-site conditions, and wireless microphones that permit you to hear what the presenter is teaching. We can ADD select closeout documents to your LANDING APP, for the owner to easily access O&M Manuals, warranties, inspections, etc.
Impress the owner with quality Training Session videos & closeout documents – have P-Tn build a LANDING APP, or insist that your subs and suppliers do it right.
Interactive Workstations
P-Tn is your CONNECTION to iPlanTables Interactive Workstations
iPlanTables Interactive Workstations are far more than a large screen TV connected to a computer CPU. These custom engineered commercial/industrial grade touchscreen monitors and powerful PC computers handle all of your large-format document management – electronically. Used by more and more construction companies, architects, and engineers throughout the United States.
[ watch a short VIDEO or see the NEW iWallMount unit, or download our P-Tn & iPlanTables CATALOG ]
iPlanTables Interactive Workstations are far more than a large screen TV connected to a computer CPU. These custom engineered commercial/industrial grade touchscreen monitors and powerful PC computers handle all of your large-format document management – electronically. Used by more and more construction companies, architects, and engineers throughout the United States.
[ watch a short VIDEO or see the NEW iWallMount unit, or download our P-Tn & iPlanTables CATALOG ]
An iPlanTables Interactive Workstation is an ideal central storage and retrieval ‘headquarters’ for all of that valuable information … it will become your hub for Total Project Management, from digital take-off, document mark-up, team collaboration, video conferencing, plan-linking, to final archiving & retrieval of ALL important documents. Digitize all documents and link them to plans or other documents for quick and easy retrieval, building a permanent repository for your facilities management department, or to archive all your projects (past – present – and future). Read more …
Aerial Photography
P-Tn has been providing aerial photography services to clients for four decades. We currently make regular flights on the first & fifteenth of each month for AERIAL ProgressPHOTOS of active construction & development sites, with images promptly delivered online or via CD-ROM. We typically use fixed-wing aircraft and professional pilots to insure timely flights and quality views, but helicopter flights are an option for obtaining low(er) altitude compositions for marketing applications.
Click this aerial image to see more …
Low-altitude aerial imaging, using UAS (Unmanned Aerial System or DRONE) equipment is still evolving, but we are active participants in this new arena. See UAS Aerial Imaging (below), and call to discuss this unique option for aerials.
UAS (DRONE) Aerial Imaging
Yes, We DRONE! . . . Yes, We DRONE! . . . Yes, We DRONE! . . . and, YES, We DRONE!
We provide INTERACTIVE detailed surface information using UAS Aerial Progress Reporting in construction!
Aerial imaging using UAS – Unmanned Aerial Systems [Drones or Quadcopters] is a rapidly growing new technology, and P-Tn is moving forward in this arena. Our FAA Certified Pilot employs UAS for both still frame capture and HI-DEF aerial video imaging. We are insured and operate within FAA regulations to deliver safe and productive aerial imagery assignments. Don’t end up the target of $10k fines from the FAA for flying without a license – or for HIRING an unlicensed UAS Pilot!
We provide INTERACTIVE detailed surface information using UAS Aerial Progress Reporting in construction!
Aerial imaging using UAS – Unmanned Aerial Systems [Drones or Quadcopters] is a rapidly growing new technology, and P-Tn is moving forward in this arena. Our FAA Certified Pilot employs UAS for both still frame capture and HI-DEF aerial video imaging. We are insured and operate within FAA regulations to deliver safe and productive aerial imagery assignments. Don’t end up the target of $10k fines from the FAA for flying without a license – or for HIRING an unlicensed UAS Pilot!
Click that image for another example of this unique aerial approach. If you want the advantages of low-altitude aerials for your project or more impact for marketing efforts, don’t hesitate to call and have a chat with our pilot.
Marketing & Architectural Photography
Marketing photography means many things to many people.
Our clients, most of whom are contractors, engineers, and architects, are often in need of interior or exterior views of completed projects – this is where our marketing photography is focused. A creative fee applies to the on-location photography, then we post the images we create to an Online PROOFING WebGALLERY for your review, and to make final selections. The images you choose are then professionally finished and released as reproduction-ready hi-res digital files, or printed and framed as wall-display color enlargements, to decorate your offices and for gifting to clients.
Click this image to see more … or view; Industrial Photography // Candid People Portraits
Worksite HAWK & EYE Monitoring
P-Tn installed its first ProgressWEBCAM in 1999, to record Time-lapse of construction of an Overland Park Office Building for DiCarlo General Contractors. The technology has advanced rapidly since that first unit, and we continue to provide this valuable site-monitoring tool, now in 720-dpi resolution, browser-based viewing, wireless internet, Pan-Tilt-Zoom user controls, multi-view image archiving, and quality/edited Time-lapse Videos of construction. And we can deliver a turn-key unit to your site rapidly with our T-M-S [Tower mobile, Mast mounted, & Solar powered] units, or mount at your location.
Over the years, requests for units that offer more of a security-monitoring aspect have come from our clients, but ProgressWEBCAMS perform a different function. Now, however, P-Tn brings the Worksite HAWK and the Worksite EYE systems to our clients. Through our new affiliation with Crossroads Mfg. of Clarksville Iowa, we can now offer a complimentary site monitoring unit -the Worksite HAWK – that records 24/7/365, utilizes sophisticated analytics to recognize suspicious site intrusions, and sends alerts directly to your phone as soon as they occur. Both allow LIVE VIEW access to Pan-Tilt-Zoom. The HAWK is trailer/mast mounted (19′) and solar powered. The Worksite EYE goes on a trailer-hitch mounted mast and operates from your vehicle’s DC power, so it can move with you (or your superintendent/foreman) and give you visual access to your crews – wherever they are working.
Sales and leasing options are available. Click for a flier to LEARN MORE, or just give us a call!
