Drones in Construction

The McFate Group just invested in a Phantom 4 Pro drone. While it is a handy tool for marketing purposes, our hope for it is that it becomes a tool we use at every job site.

The main benefit of drones is that they collect visual data. Construction projects are often huge operations, usually sprawling over an extended area of land. Typically, data is collected by the superintendent walking a site on foot, manually gathering information as they go, but this process is labor-intensive and slow, and doesn’t allow companies to react quickly to changes on the ground. Drones provide construction teams with an overhead view of job sites, materials, machinery, and people. This visual data can then be shared with clients and internal teams, used to help improve safety, and used to focus efforts toward completing a project faster.

In short, drones help job sites run more efficiently. Their usefulness can be enhanced with thermal cameras and other add-ons like mapping tools and GPS units, enabling construction managers to identify problems like water leaks or concrete cracks more quickly.