Certified Level 3 Thermography Report Writing Services
Level 3 analysis and certified reporting of thermal data captured by Level 1 thermographers, drone operators, consultancies and in-house teams.
Thermal data is captured every day by Level 1 thermographers, drone operators, surveyors and in-house maintenance teams. Turning it into findings that stand up to scrutiny is a different skill. Thermography Services (UK) provides it: we analyse the data you send, classify every finding and write the report, across building envelopes, electrical installations, flat roofs, solar photovoltaic (PV) arrays and buried water mains.
Every report is written and certified by our Level 3 thermographer. It can be delivered as a complete report, or as a certified Level 3 analysis for inclusion in your own report to your client. Both carry the same certification, and both state the conditions, coverage and limitations of the data behind them.
Good thermal data deserves a report that stands up to scrutiny, certified at Level 3.
Owning a thermal camera does not make a survey defensible. A report read by a client, an insurer, an assessor or a board has to show how each finding was reached, and by whom. That is what a Level 3 thermography report is for.
Thermography Services (UK) writes those reports on data someone else has captured. You send the radiometric thermal images, the matching visual images and the records of the day, and our Level 3 thermographer reviews them before any analysis begins: the conditions at the time of capture, the camera settings, the coverage and anything else the method depends on. If something falls short, you are told what it is and why, so it can be corrected or the data recaptured. Every thermogram is then analysed and every finding classified, with genuine anomalies kept apart from reflections, solar loading and other patterns that only resemble faults. The report sets out the conditions, the coverage and the limitations, then each finding with its location, its classification and its thermal and visual images side by side, written in plain language for the people who will act on it.
Where the data has not yet been captured, a written protocol can come first, so your team or operator collects exactly what the analysis needs. Either way, the result is a certified report your clients can rely on, without a Level 3 thermographer on your own staff. Data captured some time ago can be reported on too, provided the radiometric files and the records of the day survive, and the same review is applied to it before any analysis begins.
Level 3 analysis and certified reporting of thermal data captured by Level 1 thermographers, drone operators, consultancies and in-house teams.
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Request a Report Writing Quotation
Every dataset is different, so each report is scoped to the subject, the data you hold or plan to capture and the people who will read the result. Tell us what was surveyed and where, the equipment used, roughly how much data there is, and whether you need a complete report or a certified analysis for your own report, and we will come back with a clear proposal and a quotation for the report writing you need.
Who the service is for
Level 3 Reporting on Your Data
A great deal of thermographic data is captured by people trained to collect it rather than to certify it. That is not a weakness. It is a sensible way to divide the work.
A Level 1 thermographer is trained to capture good data to a defined method. Interpreting what that data indicates, classifying every finding consistently and standing behind the conclusions in a report is the work of a Level 3 thermographer, the most senior of the three levels. Many organisations that capture thermal data have no Level 3 on their staff, and recruiting one for occasional reports rarely makes sense. Outsourced thermography report writing fills the gap: your team keeps the fieldwork, and the analysis and the signature come from us.
The service is used by Level 1 and Level 2 thermographers who want certified reports for their own clients, by drone operators who capture thermal data for others, by consultancies and surveyors with thermography in their programme, by facilities teams that run their own cameras on site, and by property and asset managers who hold imagery from earlier surveys.
It covers the main spaces of thermography: building envelopes and housing stock, electrical installations, flat roofs, solar PV arrays and buried water mains. Each has its own physics and its own traps. A warm patch on a roof is read differently from a warm connection on a switchboard, so every analysis follows the method that fits its subject and the purpose of the report.
What you receive depends on how you work. Some clients want a complete certified report to pass straight to their own client, with the findings explained in plain language. Others want a certified Level 3 analysis to include in a report of their own, written around it in their usual style.
Either way, every report is written and certified by our Level 3 thermographer.
From your data to report
How Data Reaches Us
It starts with what you hold. Radiometric thermal files in the camera’s native format are essential, because a flat picture cannot be re-analysed. Matching visual images, the capture log and the records of the conditions on the day complete the set, and any site or plant reference, such as a floor plan, a board schedule or a string layout, helps wherever it exists.
The data review comes first. Our Level 3 thermographer checks that the conditions, the camera settings and the coverage support the purpose of the report, and that nothing the method depends on is missing. If anything falls short, you are told what it is and why before the analysis begins, so it can be corrected or the data recaptured.
The analysis follows. Each thermogram is read against its visual image and its conditions, and each finding is located, classified and explained for the people who will act on it. Patterns explained by reflection, solar loading or surface finish are recorded as such, so nothing appears on the list of findings by mistake.
The finished report is signed, certified and returned to you, either complete or as a certified Level 3 analysis for inclusion in your own report, in the format agreed at the outset.
Case Study
Pre-Refurbishment Review of a High-Rise Block
An independent Level 3 review and report for a high-rise pre-cast concrete panel residential block in Edinburgh, built from thermal and visual imagery captured by a third-party Level 1 operator ahead of a planned refurbishment. Eighteen thermograms across all four principal elevations and the roof were analysed, with reflected apparent temperature derived for each elevation. The review recorded heat loss across every heated elevation, continuous thermal bridges at both north-facing corners and roof moisture indicators of High and Medium severity, giving the refurbishment programme a certified condition record.
Standards and Certification
Thermographic inspection, analysis and reporting are carried out by a Thermography Services (UK) ITC Level III Certified Master Thermographer (Infrared Training Centre; Certification #205722059), practising in accordance with the frameworks of ISO 18436-7:2014, ASNT SNT-TC-1A and ANSI/ASNT CP-105, and BINDT CMGEN Appendix B (UK training governance). Inspection methodology is aligned with IEC 62446-3:2017 (solar PV) and BS EN ISO 6781-1:2023 (building envelopes) as applicable.
Thermography Report Writing
Report writing for Level 1 thermographers
Thermography report writing turns thermal data into findings that a client, an insurer or an assessor can rely on. Our certified Level 3 thermography report writing is built for organisations that capture their own data: report writing for Level 1 thermographers, drone operators, surveyors, consultancies and facilities teams who need a Level 3 thermography report without a Level 3 thermographer of their own. Third-party thermographic report writing works the same way on every subject. The data is reviewed, analysed and classified, and the report is written and certified by our Level 3 thermographer.
As a thermal imaging report analysis service, the work can be delivered complete, ready to pass to your client, or as a certified Level 3 analysis for inclusion in your own report. On third-party data, certification covers the analysis and its interpretation; the capture, the scope and the completeness of the survey remain with the party that carried it out. The imagery and survey data remain with the party that captured them, and the analysis remains with VisualChaos Studios Ltd.
Some schemes and insurers speak to this directly. For BREEAM (the Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method), the knowledge base accepts a thermographic survey carried out by others where the analysis and report are “undertaken or overseen, quality checked and signed by an appropriately qualified professional as defined by the UKTA”, the UK Thermography Association, and our BREEAM Thermographic Surveys page explains more. Insurer guidance such as Aviva’s Loss Prevention Standard asks whether in-house thermographic surveys have been benchmarked by a third-party provider, and our Insurance and Third-Party Benchmarking page covers that review.
A thermographic report certification service
A certified thermographic report states the conditions at the time of capture, the coverage, the method and classification used for each finding and the limitations of the data, so a reader can see how every conclusion was reached. Building envelope analysis is aligned with BS EN ISO 6781-1:2023, solar PV analysis with IEC TS 62446-3:2017, and the classification of every finding follows a consistent, documented scheme. That record is what lets a certified report be checked, compared with the next survey and defended when it is questioned.
Reports are produced under a supervised AI-assisted workflow, operated in alignment with the principles of ISO/IEC 42001. Every classification is made first by our Level 3 thermographer, thermogram by thermogram. AI-based tooling is used only as an independent check, and every word of the report is reviewed and approved by the thermographer who signs it.
Thermography is a qualitative, comparative assessment of thermal patterns under the conditions at the time of capture. Findings indicate where to look and what the thermal behaviour is consistent with; investigation and any repair are for the appropriate specialist. Outsourced thermography report writing is available for data from sites anywhere in the UK and internationally, and our thermographic report certification service can also start before capture, with a protocol written for the site.
Qualification Behind the Signature
Why Level 3 matters
ISO 18436-7:2014 sets out requirements for the qualification and assessment of personnel who carry out condition monitoring and diagnostics of machines using infrared thermography. It uses a three-category classification programme, so the knowledge and responsibility expected of a thermographer rise with each category.
The governance statement on this page names ISO 18436-7:2014 among the frameworks our Level 3 thermographer practises in accordance with. It is named as an alignment framework, not as a certification held under it. For buildings, ISO 6781-3:2015 makes a comparable distinction, setting separate competence requirements for capture, interpretation and reporting. That is the point of Level 3 report writing: the person who interprets your data and signs the report works at the most senior level of the discipline, whoever captured the images.
Request a Report Writing Quotation
Every dataset is different, so each report is scoped to the subject, the data you hold or plan to capture and the people who will read the result. Tell us what was surveyed and where, the equipment used, roughly how much data there is, and whether you need a complete report or a certified analysis for your own report, and we will come back with a clear proposal and a quotation for the report writing you need.
