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Technology

2016 Innovations Awards: Year of the Drone headlines 3 game-changing construction technologies

In the past year, no other technology has shown more potential to impact – and improve – more parts of the construction business than unmanned aircraft, more commonly referred to as drones. There are the obvious applications such as using the aircraft to grab aerial progress shots, but contractors like Rogers-O’Brien have figured out how […]

January 8, 2016

Technology

Amazon’s new helicopter/airplane hybrid drone points to exciting possibilities for jobsite deliveries

Amazon has released the first design update on its ‘Prime Air’ drone delivery program since releasing footage of a prototype nearly two years ago. In that time the company has pushed for the Federal Aviation Administration to speed up the process in establishing commercial drone regulations, but beyond that, we haven’t seen much of the […]

November 30, 2015