How can Drone Technology impact the construction industry?

How can Drone Technology impact the construction industry?
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Overview

Drone technology is among one of the entrancing construction trends since the past few years. Drone technology offers benefits from on-site safety to remote monitoring that has revolutionized the entire project’s life-cycle. Drone photos, images, and videos enable the construction professionals to scope out projects, track building progress and real-time updates are attained. Drones are also called an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAVs) that plays a vital role in the construction industry.

Drone technology has transformed the planning stage of construction along with land surveying and data capturing. The drone is gaining popularity in the construction industry due to two reasons-they can save time and money of the developers. Builders use Drones for an aerial view of any sites at ease and capture real-time data to understand what’s going on in the site.

Drones are commonly used for progress tracking where less time is spent mapping a job site; contractors get knowledge about every aspect of the project. Drones keep the project on track due to smooth communication.

Drones technology have helped the construction companies in providing their clients with BIM 4D Services that are associated with the time frame of finishing the project process and 5D BIM Services that is a cost that the company intervenes into material and technology must be optimized and used in the project.

Ways how Drone Technology is affecting the Construction Industries

Land surveying: Land surveying was complexes and expensive part of the construction. Traditional land surveillance methods are replaced by UAVs and are emerging as provides bird’s eye view of the site. Drone technology has reduced labor and time to provide accurate surveys. It eliminates errors made in the construction process as compared to humans and can capture data in less time. The contractors can make estimates and accept contracts.

Marketing and promotion: Construction Companies uses drones to film aerial shot of site before development. Visualization of barren land can be done with the help of 3D Rendered and scale models of the finished product, a high shot of site from multiple angles. Drone photography and videos can help the potential client to communicate easily, and task forces the viability of the project. Drone helps to facilitate communication and surveillance. Due to this, an increase in efficiency is attained from the ability to collect real-time data from drones.

Safety and insurance: In case you use UAVs you get discount in an insurance claim to identify the site to find errors and fix potential problems. Using drones serious injuries and death can be prevented to coworkers or end users in the construction industry. Drones help in increase of security efficiency, and it overlooks the implementation in the construction industry.

Job progress to clients: Clients fund the construction projects and has the right to intervene into the construction process hence sending regular drone videos and images of the site helps them to know the status of construction projects. In this way, communication of the site is done between clients and construction professionals if not visiting the site.

Monitoring multiple job sites: Contractors can stay on-site during the entire life-cycle of construction project and rely on information from foremen and inspectors for regular updates. With the help of drone monitoring multiple job sites are easier. Drones can provide you with views of a site and aerial shots that depict the actual work that is going on and what needs to be done. For large scale projects, UAVs are used to make sure things are running smoothly and on schedule. Creating Real-time monitoring system is adopted by many construction companies.

Construction inspection: Public interest group and clients involve into inspection that is a vital part for the construction companies. Drones are used to capture images and video that prevents delays and distractions into an inspection of the project. Drones can be implemented anywhere and can give detailed inspection about the project from any site angle. Inspection can be done faster, safer and easier through drones and aids in saving time and money to keep the site secure.

Monitoring workers: Drones helps the construction companies to know what their coworkers are doing and are they following protocol or not. Any coworker can be prevented from injuries while constant monitoring on them by drones.

Advantages and Disadvantages of using Drone Technology in the Construction Industry

Drones have become an essential technology to be used in construction companies. It can produce high-quality images and video that enables the client to communicate easily with coworkers and monitor their task being performed on-site construction project.

Some advantages and disadvantages are here that it imposes:

Advantages:

Drones help in better construction and site monitoring saving time and money incurred on the construction projects. It enables the construction professionals to calculate various types of material inventory, stockpile volume, length, width and elevation for roads and structures. It marks the images and maps for easier communication flow. Drone can effectively contribute to the Architecture discipline in a way that clients can enhance virtual tour of the building through 3D Rendering Services, images and videos that can eliminates last minute changes to the design process and error are resolved here too.

Disadvantages:

Two operators are needed to handle the commercial drone at the same time. Operators need to be trained to use it on-site and resolve relevant issues with it. They even require knowledge and experience of operating drones. Weather needs to be taken into consideration for drone’s safety and effective use. Drones equipment is expensive that often companies are not willing to implement and have a huge up-front cost that makes the technology stay in long-run to make a lot of money.

Conclusion

Construction Industries need adoption of Drone Technology for their projects to get rendered images and videos to communicate with the stakeholders and owners about the progress of the construction project. Drones are popular in the construction industry but at the same time expensive for them to implement technology and faces problem in its usage. It works best for the clients to monitor the process and workers involved in the project and supervise them from anywhere and from any angle images and video can be fetched. Errors identified can get quickly resolved with the usage of drones.

  • Dhvani Badheka

    Dhvani is an irreverent writer who has over 4 years of experience under her belt. She is a life-long learner and a quick study which provides her articles a unique insight. She is always reading, researching new materials and trying to expand her knowledge of the AEC industry so that she can create interesting and valuable content.


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How can Drone Technology impact the construction industry?
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Dhvani Badheka
Dhvani is an irreverent writer who has over 4 years of experience under her belt. She is a life-long learner and a quick study which provides her articles a unique insight. She is always reading, researching new materials and trying to expand her knowledge of the AEC industry so that she can create interesting and valuable content.