[QUOTABLE] Contractors Can Combine Drones with Virtual Reality to Reduce Injuries

Nicholas Pilkington, CTO and Co-Founder of DroneDeploy, a drone data software platform leading the use and adoption of drones in construction, shares how drones will not only increase in use for construction and inspection (particularly since the passing of FAA Part 107), but will also play a role in enabling the use of virtual reality in construction:

“Everyone was talking about the integration of virtual reality in both consumer and commercial spaces in 2016, but mass adoption of the technology has yet to be seen. Drones are enabling this in the construction industry. Through the aggregation of drone imagery and data of project sites and material stores, we’re already seeing construction companies like Brasfield & Gorrie experimenting with virtual building information modeling (BIM) to provide virtual ‘walk-through’ tours of current and projected construction spaces. Not only does this provide clients and design teams an immediate visual representation for presentations and the design review process, it also provides pre-construction teams with the ability to cut down on heavy travel costs and prevent jobsite injury – all pre-construction team members can become familiar with jobsites right in their own office, no matter where they are.”