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How to Hire a Commercial Drone

When you want to investigate the value of aerial data acquisition and skip the technical, legal and insurance hassles of operating your own unmanned aerial vehicle

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[VIDEO]Caterpillar Advice to Dial in a 20% Reduction in Loader Fuel Use

Caterpillar's latest Rethink The Tank video (4:15 min.) shows how a slight change in truck position can change fuel efficiency at the loading face more than 16%

[VIDEO]Caterpillar Advice to Dial in a 20% Reduction in Loader Fuel Use

ForConstructionPros App of the Week: ShareMyToolbox

Viewpoint Construction Software

ShareMyToolbox helps construction contractors looking to loan, borrow and keep track of their tools

Using ShareMyToolbox to catalog tools lets contractors catalog serial numbers, models, purchase dates and prices.

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[QUOTABLE]How Drone Photography is Changing Construction Profitability

Rogers-O’Brien Construction’s two years of experience with unmanned aerial vehicles keeps improving how the general contractor visualizes work progress and stays on schedule

Workers launch an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to take progress photos on a Rogers-O'Brien Construction site.

[VIDEO]How Much Fuel Cat Believes Data Can Help Contractors Save

Paolo Fellin and John Carpenter reveal how much Caterpillar technology has been improving the operational efficiency of data innovators’ field crews

[VIDEO]How Much Fuel Cat Believes Data Can Help Contractors Save

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FAA Info on Getting Commercial-Drone Certified

Check out these FAA web pages to find out more about legally flying commercial unmanned aerial vehicles on your job sites

A DJI Phantom flies one of Rogers-O'Brien Construction's project sites.

ForConstructionPros App of the Week: SightSpace 3D

Visualize what a construction project will look like in the real world using SightSpace 3D augmented reality

SightSpace overlays 3D models onto the real world, to scale, and enables a virtual walk through using a mobile device.

[Video]Caterpillar Slope Assist for Dozers - Production Study

Cat Slope Assist for dozers is a simple system that makes grading easy by automatically holding blade angles without any external laser or GPS reference.

Video: Caterpillar Slope Assist for Dozers - Production Study

ForConstructionPros App of the Week: Mobile Inspection

Configure and customize electronic checklists and punch lists to capture data onsite using a mobile device and the Mobile Inspection app

The app allows anyone to configure or customize checklists and punch lists to capture data by one or more inspectors, technicians or safety coordinators.

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XC6 Series Rugged Tablets

Xplore Technologies Corp.

XC6 series of rugged tablets for the construction industry features faster performance speeds and a 30% increase in sunlight-readability compared to previous series

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ForConstructionPros App of the Week: MyShiftster

Workers can manage their own schedules, give away and pick up shifts with the MyShiftster mobile app

MyShiftster allows users to edit their shift, give away or trade a shift, add a shift and communicate shift changes with co-workers and their boss.

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How Mobile Apps are Changing Construction Profitability

Developers of construction applications for mobile devices recommend ways to rethink paperwork headaches to gain project profit with smartphones and tablets

Pew Research measured a near doubling of smartphone ownership in the general U.S. population in less than five years. A separate survey by EMA Contractors found that 22% of contractors use tablet computers as part of their workday.

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