Drone documentation of three institutional projects featuring EEWS architectural aluminum panel installations — Vagelos Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania, Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, and Rowan University’s Shreiber School of Veterinary Medicine.
EEWS designs and fabricates architectural aluminum panel systems for institutional, healthcare, and educational facilities — clean, modern, geometrically precise facades that define the buildings they wrap.
Facade work doesn’t photograph well from the ground. Panel alignment, joint precision, and the rhythm of a fully installed wall only read properly from elevation. EEWS partnered with Drone Altitude to capture three of their flagship institutional installations from angles ground-based photography can’t reach — documenting both the in-progress installation and the completed facades for use in marketing, awards submissions, and client presentations.
Each project below required FAA-coordinated flight planning, careful airspace authorization, and a camera approach tuned specifically to the architectural detail of the panel work — not the general “swoop the building” pattern of a typical aerial. The result is a body of documentation that lets EEWS show prospective clients what their finished product actually looks like in place.
University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA
The Vagelos Laboratory is one of UPenn’s flagship research facilities — a striking modern envelope wrapping advanced energy science laboratories on the Philadelphia campus. The EEWS aluminum panel system defines the building’s exterior identity, with precision-engineered joinery that needed to be captured at scale and at close range.
Drone Altitude provided aerial documentation focused on facade alignment, panel-to-glass transitions, and the architectural rhythm of the installation as seen from elevations matching the upper floors of neighboring buildings.
Deliverables: Cinematic aerial video · high-resolution facade stills · close-range panel detail captures · orbital fly-around at building height
Vagelos Laboratory – photo 1
1000 Blythe Blvd · Charlotte, NC
Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center is the flagship hospital of the Atrium Health system — a Level I trauma center and one of the largest healthcare facilities in the Southeast. The EEWS aluminum panel installation here was the largest in scale of the three engagements, wrapping a major hospital expansion with a modern, precision-engineered facade.
Hospital airspace presents specific coordination requirements: medevac helicopter approach paths, restricted overflight zones, and operational sensitivity around an active trauma center. Flight planning was coordinated in advance with facility management and FAA airspace authorization. Capture focused on the full-scale completed installation, the building’s relationship to its site, and the precision of panel joinery across a facade of significant institutional scale.
Deliverables: Cinematic full-scale aerial video · multi-elevation facade documentation · site context aerials · panel detail stills
Atrium Health CMC – photo 1
Rowan University · Glassboro, NJ
The Shreiber School represents Rowan University’s expansion into veterinary education — a purpose-built facility designed to support both clinical training and research programs. The EEWS aluminum panel system gives the building a clean, institutional presence that signals its mission as a professional school within Rowan’s growing health sciences cluster.
Aerial documentation captured the completed facade in its campus context, with elevation passes designed to show how the panel system reads at various distances — from approach views to up-close architectural detail.
Deliverables: Cinematic aerial video · campus-context aerials · facade detail captures · multi-angle building profiles
Rowan Shreiber – photo 1
Architectural facade documentation isn’t a generic drone job. Each project required specific airspace authorization, camera approach, and flight planning tuned to the building’s scale and the panel system’s detail.
LAANC airspace authorizations filed for every flight. FAA Part 107 certification carried on-site. Coordination with facility management before arrival.
Hospital flights coordinated around medevac approach paths and restricted overflight zones. University campuses flown outside class hours and major events.
Flight paths designed to show panel alignment, joinery precision, and the architectural rhythm of the installation — not generic “swoop the building” aerial work.
Wide-establishing aerials, mid-range elevation passes, and close-in panel-detail stills — so the client can use one shoot across marketing, proposals, and awards submissions.
Multiple altitudes, angles, and lighting passes captured in one site visit. Reduces logistics for the client and minimizes disruption to facility operations.
Footage color-graded, edited, and delivered as finished cinematic videos plus raw 4K source files. Stills delivered as full-resolution TIFF or JPEG.
Whether you’re a facade fabricator, architect, contractor, or institutional owner — we capture the kind of aerial documentation that shows your work the way ground photography can’t.
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