QEA’s Roof Assure Audit – Protect Your Roof, Protect Your Bottom Line

QEA is excited to announce the latest addition to our market leading, AI-powered building envelope assessment services – QEA’s Roof Assure Audit. Leveraging sophisticated AI models, thermography, and industrial drones, QEA’s Roof Assure Audit provides the precise insights needed for building owners to address issues before they grow into costly problems.

QEA’s Roof Assure Audit incorporates several proprietary innovations to tackle the essential aspects of managing your roof.  The Roof Assure Audit:

1. Pinpoints physical issues, risks, and deficiencies throughout the roof (e.g. moisture penetration, wet insulation, corrosion, blisters, debris) down to inches or centimeters.

2. Accurately measures megawatt-hours (MWh) of energy loss, tons of carbon emissions, forecasted energy and emissions savings, and the effective R-value for each square inch or centimeter of the roof.

3. Provides customized retrofit plans that detail a cost-benefit analysis for various roofing solutions, with each plan tailored to maximize ROI.

QEA’s Roof Assure Audit is backed by robust AI models trained on hundreds of thousands of high-resolution (8k+), high proximity, annotated thermal and visual images of roofs. This ensures the highest levels of accuracy, precision, and speed in analysis. Our extensive database is built on over 1,100 projects completed for a diverse portfolio of commercial, residential, institutional, and industrial buildings, ensuring optimal accuracy in analysis.

The Roof Assure Audit begins with comprehensive data collection using industrial drones and QEA’s proprietary sensors. Once data is collected, QEA’s AI models and team of building science specialists diagnose various roofing issues and risks and present solutions that optimize ROI. The Roof Assure Audit delves deeper than traditional audits by detailing severity, square footage, and material impacted by each issue. All of this information is presented on a high-quality, digital twin of the roof, creating an intuitive visual model of roof performance.

Example of a digital twin of the roof which includes a thermal overlay and markers identifying key roofing issues. For each issue size and severity are detailed.

QEA’s Roof Assure Audit delivers custom retrofit solutions tailored to the needs of each roof. Each solution includes details on implementation costs, forecasted energy savings (MWh), and payback periods. Building owners can quickly understand optimal retrofit decisions, such as whether targeted repairs or a full roof replacement delivers a better ROI. Through QEA’s expansive network of roofing solutions partners, we ensure accurate costing information and can facilitate retrofit implementations, streamlining the entire retrofit process.

QEA’s Roof Assure Audit delivers an unmatched level of precision, accuracy, and detail, empowering building owners to establish strong business cases needed to justify roofing retrofits. With hundreds of successful deployments across multiple countries, QEA’s Roof Assure Audit is helping building owners understand the lifespan of their roof, mitigate roofing risks, prioritize repairs and retrofits based on necessity and ROI, and ensure compliance with roofing regulations.

Contact Us today to maximize the lifespan of your roof with data-backed and ROI-driven insights.

QEA Tech Launches Japan Projects in Collaboration with Drone Frontier

QEA Tech is excited to announce that it has officially launched its operations in Japan, beginning with a precise, data-driven building envelope audit for the Tokyo National Museum in collaboration with Drone Frontier. This project marks a significant milestone as QEA Tech brings its patented AI-powered technology to one of Japan’s most iconic institutions.

Leveraging patented AI software, drones, and thermography, QEA Tech’s proprietary approach quantifies energy loss and forecasted savings for the entire building envelope, pinpoints building envelope issues down to centimeters, and delivers tailored retrofit action plans focused on maximizing energy savings and return on investment. Since 2019, QEA Tech has audited over 800 building envelopes across North America, Europe, and Asia, serving a broad range of commercial, residential, industrial, and institutional facilities. Drone Frontier is a leading drone solutions company in Japan, with expertise in conducting infrared building inspections, roof inspections and measurements, and indoor inspections.

The Tokyo National Museum was interested in working with QEA Tech to gain detailed insights on energy savings opportunities across the building envelope. The Museum chose to work with QEA Tech as it provided an innovative, efficient, and scalable solution unavailable locally. This cutting-edge project consisted of QEA Tech and Drone Frontier using industrial drones to capture thousands of high-quality infrared and visual images of the museum’s building envelope, having prepared diligently beforehand to ensure that local laws and regulations were followed.

As the museum has preserved ancient arts and artifacts for over 150 years, it was essential that QEA Tech and Drone Frontier collected building envelope data in a non-intrusive manner, preserving the integrity of the historic structure. The data collected was then analyzed by QEA Tech’s patented AI software and team of building science specialists, resulting in detailed reports outlining energy loss and potential savings throughout the building envelope and a customized retrofit action plan.  

This initiative underscores QEA Tech’s commitment to leveraging its technology to drive sustainability in the built environment on a global scale. QEA Tech looks forward to continuing its work with Drone Frontier to conduct building envelope audits across Japan’s rich buildings landscape. By providing data-driven solutions to improve energy efficiency, QEA Tech and Drone Frontier aim to accelerate the decarbonization of buildings and support Japan’s commitment to reaching carbon neutrality by 2050.

“QEA Tech is excited to expand our solutions to Japan’s diverse built environment. Driving resiliency through smart, actionable building envelope retrofits is at the core of QEA Tech’s mission, and we look forward to working with Drone Frontier to support Japanese building owners in achieving important sustainability goals.” – Peyvand Melati, CEO of QEA Tech

Media Contacts

QEA Tech

Hannah Elhamahmy

Marketing Lead

hannah@qeatech.com

Drone Frontier

Gurubalan Shyamsunda

Technical Director

g.shyamsundar@drone-frontier.co.jp