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Active operations · Capitale-Nationale

Get your job site data,
in hours, not days

Advanced RPAS Certificate · Transport Canada $5M CAD Liability Insurance CNESST Coordination NAV CANADA Authorizations

Cut Your Data Capture Time

Survey a 12-acre site in 2 hours of flight time, versus nearly 100 hours with traditional ground-based methods.

Drone survey of a site with stockpile volume calculations

Verifiable, Repeatable Accuracy

Deliver ±2 cm ground accuracy with georeferenced GCP control points, verifiable on every mission.

Point cloud of a building under construction with GCP control points and RMS accuracy

Fly in Full Compliance

Certified Advanced RPAS by Transport Canada, $5M CAD liability insurance, integrated CNESST coordination.

Certified drone pilot flying over a job site in regulatory compliance

BIM/CAD Deliverables Ready to Integrate

From flight planning to the exported file, your project managers and engineers integrate the data directly.

FLIGHT PLAN DRONE CAPTURE .DWG · .RVT · .LAS

First drone project, or already familiarwith industrial aerial data capture?

From flight planning to an exportable CAD/BIM file.

Five steps, one processing pipeline, one point of contact. You give us access to the site. We deliver the files to your teams.

Flight plans and authorizations handled before you arrive on site.

The Québec City region sits almost entirely within CYQB controlled airspace. We handle the NAV Drone request, notice to the site's prime contractor, and coordination with the site's CNESST prevention program.

  • NAV CANADA authorization request via NAV Drone for every flight in CYQB airspace
  • Mission notice to the prime contractor and integration into the prevention program
  • Weather and airspace verification up to 24 hours before the flight
  • Municipal permits based on takeoff and landing zones
Flight planning map for controlled CYQB airspace

RTK capture and thermal imaging, without interrupting your ground operations.

The drone flies alongside heavy machinery. No site shutdown, no surveying crew to mobilize. Ground control points establish the accuracy you can prove to your clients.

  • RTK flight with real-time corrections for centimeter-level accuracy
  • High-resolution RGB sensors, radiometric thermal as required by the mandate
  • Georeferenced ground control points (GCP) for verification
  • Advanced RPAS-certified pilot with visual observer on complex flights
Aerial thermal imaging of a roof captured by drone

Photogrammetry and point clouds delivered on a contractual deadline.

Our processing pipeline generates orthophotos, digital models, and point clouds within 48 hours of the flight. Miss the deadline, and an automatic 50% penalty applies to the invoice. It's in the contract.

  • Georeferenced orthophotos in NAD83 (CSRS), 2 to 5 cm/px resolution
  • Digital terrain models (DTM) and surface models (DSM)
  • Dense point clouds for precise volumetric calculations
  • Structured time-series comparisons, flight over flight
Point cloud · 487,200 pts/m² Export · .LAS · .OBJ · .GeoTIFF

Standardized reports and a web portal shared across your teams.

Your project managers open the portal, compare progress week over week, and measure a distance or volume directly on screen. No heavy file transfers, no software to install on the client side.

  • Secure web portal with access by project and by team
  • Before/after comparisons and a progress timeline slider
  • Annotations, measurements, and PDF report exports
  • Timestamped visual archive for dispute defense
portail.altimetrix.ca/dashboard AVAILABLE FILES PROJECT TYPE DATE STATUS Beauport Site — Phase 2 Envelope Inspection Jun 28 Ready Lévis South Project Weekly Monitoring Jun 30 Ready Charlesbourg Site Point Cloud .LAS Jun 20 Ready Beauport Site — Phase 2 As-Built Plan .DWG Jul 1 Processing 3 active sites · 12 files available · 2 deliverables processing

Native exports for AutoCAD, Civil 3D, Revit, and BIM environments.

The government's 2021–2026 BIM roadmap mandates structured digital data. We export in the formats your engineers and architects open without an intermediate conversion, ready for the SQI's common data environment.

  • Open formats compatible with openBIM: .IFC, .LAS, .OBJ, .GeoTIFF
  • Absolute georeferencing via ground control points
  • 6,500+ published coordinate systems supported
  • SQI calibration compliant with Asset Information Requirements (AIR)
.IFC openBIM .LAS Point cloud .OBJ 3D model .DXF AutoCAD .GeoTIFF Orthophoto .RVT Revit Compliant · SQI BIM Roadmap · 2021–2026 NAD83(CSRS) · MTQ zone adapted to the site

The math on return on investment is simple.

The drone doesn't replace your engineers or surveyors. It removes the longest part of their job, raw data collection, and gives them back time for what actually matters.

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Millions of Points per Flight

A single flyover generates more measurements than a ground crew collects in a week. Even hard-to-reach areas are covered without deploying scaffolding or a lift.

2.4M POINTS / FLIGHT · LIDAR CLOUD
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No More Costly Site Return Trips

One capture produces multiple deliverables. If project requirements evolve along the way, your teams draw from data already collected instead of remobilizing a ground crew.

PHOTOS BIM MODEL REPORT 1 FLIGHT · 3+ DELIVERABLES
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Your Surveyors on High-Value Tasks

With reliable raw data delivered to their desk, your surveyors and engineers focus on validation, quality control, and decision-making instead of field collection.

Geometric control Tolerance validation Engineering decision
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Indicative estimate based on our average capture ratios. Every engagement is confirmed with a precise quote.

Four offers, four operational problems solved.

Each package solves one precise operational problem for one specific role on site. No generic service. Every package includes a contractual guarantee that shifts the financial risk onto AltiMetrix, not onto you.

For: Project Manager · General Contractor

Progress Billing Protection

100% of your subcontractor progress claims validated without dispute, month after month, for the entire duration of the project.

Included in the package
  • Recurring monitoring flights, weekly or biweekly
  • Interactive portal with a progress timeline slider
  • Timestamped visual archive for dispute defense
  • Full management of NAV CANADA and municipal authorizations
Pricing Starting at $650 CAD / month Billed as a monthly subscription, based on flight frequency (weekly or biweekly) and site size.
Guarantee If our archive doesn't settle a progress dispute with a subcontractor in your favor, that month of service is fully credited back to you.
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For: Estimator · Land Surveyor

Rapid LiDAR Volumetric Survey

Centimeter-level topographic modeling delivered to estimators in 48 hours, without stopping heavy machinery.

Included in the package
  • Capture with an industrial-grade LiDAR sensor with RTK
  • Cut/fill volumetric metrology report
  • Digital terrain model with vegetation classification
  • Absolute geospatial calibration via ground control points
Pricing Starting at $1,100 CAD / project Billed per project, based on the site area to be surveyed (in hectares) and terrain complexity.
Guarantee Miss the 48-hour delivery deadline: a 50% reduction is credited automatically to your invoice.
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For: BIM Manager · Engineer · Architect

Native As-Built BIM Integration

An as-built digital twin that integrates without conversion into your common data environment, compliant with SQI requirements.

Included in the package
  • Scanning via cross photogrammetry and/or LiDAR
  • openBIM-compliant exports: .IFC, .LAS, .OBJ, .DXF
  • Absolute georeferencing via GCP, full traceability
  • Compatible with Revit, AutoCAD Civil 3D, ArcGIS, Pix4D
Pricing Starting at $3,200 CAD / project Billed per project, based on the area scanned and the number of export formats required.
Guarantee If a software integration error is on our end, we deploy a geomatics expert to finalize the software integration at our expense.
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For: Health & Safety Director · Property Manager

Zero-Elevation Envelope Diagnostic

Complete thermal and visual inspection of facades and roofs, with zero exposure of your teams to fall risks.

Included in the package
  • High-resolution radiometric thermal and visual capture
  • Detection of thermal bridges and insulation defects
  • No lift rental, scaffolding, or road closure required
  • Structured technical report for the signing engineer or architect
Pricing Starting at $750 CAD / project Billed per project, based on the facade and roof area to inspect and the number of building floors.
Guarantee $5M CAD aviation liability insurance, with the prime contractor named as an additional insured. The physical risk stays on our side.
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Compliant with Canadian standards, built for Québec construction.

Regulatory compliance isn't a marketing pitch. It's the condition for setting foot on your site. Here's what's non-negotiable on our end.

Cert. 01

Advanced RPAS Certificate

Issued by Transport Canada. Required to operate in CYQB controlled airspace and within 30 m of workers on job sites.

Cert. 02

Certified Aircraft

Every RPAS in our fleet is listed with a Declaration of Safety Assurance (DAS) accepted by Transport Canada for advanced operations.

Cert. 03

$5M CAD Liability

Aviation and general commercial liability coverage. The prime contractor can be added as an additional insured on request.

Cert. 04

CNESST Coordination

Integration into the prime contractor's prevention program. Flight notice and NAV CANADA authorizations for every mission in controlled airspace.

Three typical scenarios where aerial data changes the final invoice.

Three common job site profiles in the region, with the order-of-magnitude results our flights and processing pipeline deliver.

Institutional · Municipal
Elementary School · Beauport · 18-Month Monitoring
A disagreement of over $40,000 with a subcontractor over foundation progress threatened to delay that month's payment. Our timestamped archive, week by week since excavation, settled it in a single meeting instead of two weeks of back-and-forth with the engineer.
18 mo
Recurring monitoring duration
72
Scheduled flyovers
Residential Development · Earthmoving
Vacant Lot · Lebourgneuf · 8 Hectares
The estimator needed cut-and-fill volumes before submitting a bid Monday morning. Flight completed Friday afternoon, volumetric report delivered Saturday, without idling the excavator once on site.
2 h
Capture time
100 h
Equivalent ground method
Commercial · Building Envelope
Office Tower · 15 Floors · Downtown Québec City
Ahead of provisional acceptance, the property manager feared hidden surprises in the brick facade. Thermal imaging revealed three thermal bridges invisible to the naked eye, corrected before contractual guarantees were released, without raising a single lift.
2 mm
Detectable cracks
0
Exposure to work at height
Sectors Served
Heavy Construction Institutional & Municipal Residential Development Commercial & Building Envelope Infrastructure & Public Works

You have a job site in the region.
We have the data you're missing.

A 20-minute consultation to identify the two or three moments where a drone genuinely changes your timeline and your budget. No generic pitch, just your project.

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