The Mercyhealth Hospital and Trauma Center–Riverside project in Rockford, Ill., is using a drone to monitor its 65-acre site site, according to an article on the Health Facilities Management website.
Surveying work to help manage various components of the project — would typically take two surveyors two days to complete, the drone can do it in 30 minutes.
“We are just starting to scratch the surface on this technology,” general superintendent Tom Simon of Mortenson Construction, said.
“It’s been refined over the last few years to make it into not just a marketing tool, but a tool that can dial in and be focused on site logistics, schedule management and many more elements.”
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