Drone technology is among one of the entrancing construction trends for the past few years. Drone technology offers benefits from on-site safety to remote monitoring that has revolutionized the entire project life-cycle. Drone photos, images, and videos enable the construction professionals to scope out projects, track building progress, and receive real-time updates.
Drone technology has transformed the planning stage of construction by land surveying and data capturing. Drones are gaining popularity in the construction industry since they can save time and money for the developers. Builders use drones for an aerial view of any site at ease and capture real-time data to understand what’s going on in the site.
Drones are also commonly used for project progress monitoring, site monitoring where less time is spent mapping a job site and stakeholders get knowledge about every aspect of the project. Drones keep the project on track due to transparency and smooth communication. Drones technology has helped the construction companies in providing their clients with BIM 4D Services that are associated with the time frame of finishing the project in time.
Land surveying: Land surveying is a complex and time-consuming part of infrastructure projects. Traditional land survey methods are gradually getting replaced by the aerial survey by UAVs and Drones. Drone surveys have reduced labor and time required to carry out large-area surveys and also provide accurate data with better insights. During tender participation or new land acquisition, drone surveys can help for a quick survey, on-ground feature analysis, and cut-fill volume analysis thus enabling better estimation of construction and development costs.
Project progress monitoring: Drone survey and drone video-based project progress monitoring are some of the most efficient and transparent ways of project progress monitoring. Drone images help to capture the as-is status of the project site. Drone videos integrated with geotagged information and GPS details help project managers and higher management to easily understand the project progress of linear projects such as highway construction, railway line laying, and oil & gas pipelines.
Monitoring multiple job sites: With the help of drone monitoring, review of multiple job sites can be easier. Drones can provide you with aerial views of large construction sites that capture the status of the actual work that is going on and what needs to be done. Using our platform, you can better monitor your different sites and have transparent & visual data on date wise progress made at the site.
Marketing and promotion: Construction companies use drones to film aerial shots of their sites before development and during the launch of their projects. Visualization of barren land can be done better by integrating drone videos and photographs with 3D rendered and scaled models of the projects thus helping them to communicate better with potential investors and other stakeholders. Aerial virtual tour provided by Airpix helps real estate companies to better highlight the strategic location of projects while at the same time capturing the beautiful views from their site.
Site Safety: Drones can be an effective way to improve site safety by enabling continuous monitoring of the site and workforce compliances. Project managers get a complete overview of the sites on a daily basis to identify safety hazards earlier and avoid accidents at construction project sites. Due to better safety measures, construction companies can have better insurance plans for their project sites.
Job progress to clients: Regular drone videos and images of the site help clients to know the status of construction projects without having to visit the site. This improves reporting and communication between developers and clients.
Drones are becoming an essential technology to be used in construction companies. It can produce high-quality images and video that enables the client to communicate easily internally as well as with clients, investors, and other stakeholders. Owning and operating drones might not be a scalable way for infrastructure companies to leverage the advantages of drone technology across all their sites. We at Airpix, with drone pilots across India and efficient & automated data processing pipelines, can help you realize the best advantages of using drones for your construction and infrastructure projects.
