Case study · Monthly mapping · Walsh Construction
A New VA Medical Center, Mapped Every Month
I have flown the new VA medical center in Louisville for Walsh Construction since the site was graded dirt in March 2022, every month since January 2023, and every visit since June 2024 has also produced an orthomosaic map of the whole campus.
- Client
- Walsh Construction
- Site
- Brownsboro Road and the Watterson Expressway, Louisville, Kentucky
- First flight
- March 21, 2022
- Schedule
- Monthly since January 2023
- Maps
- A full-site orthomosaic every month since June 2024
- Also delivered
- Photos, video and a film of the 2023 steel year
The brief
A current picture of a moving campus
On a hospital campus this size the site changes every week, and a satellite view goes stale fast.
Each monthly visit now produces a map stitched from hundreds of overhead photos, plus the photos and video from the same flight. The project team gets a dated, zoomable picture of the whole site to plan laydown, staging and access on, and to check distances and areas without walking into an active work zone.
The maps are visual planning and documentation tools, not boundary or legal surveys, which must come from a licensed professional land surveyor.
Two years of maps
June 2024 to July 2026
The same campus from directly overhead, two years apart. Drag the handle to compare.
Along the way
Milestones caught from the air
March 21, 2022
The first flight, over a graded site beside the interstate.
November 30, 2023
Topping out: the signed final beam goes up with an American flag.
October 8, 2024
A crawler crane sets the blue water tower tank on its column.
September 20, 2025
A helicopter lifts equipment onto the hospital roof.
On film
The day the water tower went up
Milestone days get their own flights. The water tower lift was filmed from the air from the ground up to the top of the column.
From public project information, the campus is a new medical center of about 910,000 square feet on about 34 acres, with a 1,300-car parking structure and a central utility plant.
On your site
Monthly maps on your project
I am based in Louisville and fly job sites across Kentucky and Southern Indiana, and farther when a project calls for it. A site a few hours away is scheduled the same way as one across town: the visit windows are set at the start, and every set arrives by download link, organized by date.
A map, photos and video can all come from the same visit, under one quote, for as long as the build runs.
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Next step
Need a current map of your site every month?
Send the site and the schedule. You will get a plan for maps, photos and video, and one clear price, before anything is booked.
