Advanced construction projects are privileged & fly drones or quad copters weekly for aerial progress photos. Few of the projects can afford to fly drones daily or multiple times in a day depending on project documentation needs. Things that are visible in the aerial photos are not evident from photos taken on the ground. It provides accurate and timely information to schedule work for the next day.
Hopefully automated drone flights will take place at least once a day for progress photos when an activity is taking place on the jobsite, like a concrete pour or steel erection. General contractor, Construction and insurance companies can rely on drone usage for investigating building warranty claims, settling disputes with subcontractors and routine progress photos as well.
Barring the regulatory hurdles, with automated flights, there will be no looking back in terms of more-frequent aerial progress updates, photos to generate point clouds, which can be…