Pipework Aerial Inspection/Promotional Video

Site – North Ayrshire

Client – GSK

Description of works – UAV Drone Survey

Cost saving to client using UAV over using traditional methods of rope access – £25,000.00

Balmore were asked to inspect the outside structures and pipe work using a unmanned aerial vehicle. We were also asked by main contractor Curtis Moore to make a promotional aerial video of there completed renew cladding works on the site

GlaxoSmithKline plc (GSK) is a British pharmaceutical company headquartered in Brentford, London. Established in 2000 by a merger of Glaxo Wellcome and SmithKline Beecham, GSK was the world’s sixth largest pharmaceutical company as of 2015, after Pfizer, Novartis, Merck, Hoffmann-La Roche and Sanofi.[n 1][3] Emma Walmsley became CEO on 31 March 2017 and is the first female CEO of the company.

The company has a primary listing on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. As of August 2016 it had a market capitalisation of £81 billion (around $107 billion), the fourth largest on the London Stock Exchange.[4] It has a secondary listing on the New York Stock Exchange.

GSK’s drugs and vaccines earned £21.3 billion in 2013.[5] Its top-selling products that year were Advair, Avodart, Flovent, Augmentin, Lovaza and Lamictal. GSK’s consumer products, which earned £5.2 billion in 2013, include Sensodyne and Aquafresh toothpaste, the malted-milk drink Horlicks, Abreva for cold sores, Breathe Right nasal strips, Nicoderm and Nicorette nicotine replacements, and Night Nurse, a cold remedy.[6] The company developed the first malaria vaccine, RTS,S, which it said in 2014 it would make available for five percent above cost.[7] Legacy products developed at GSK include several listed in the World Health Organization Model List of Essential Medicines, such as amoxicillin, mercaptopurine, pyrimethamine and zidovudine.