The year in construction technology saw robots being used on more job sites in the real world, powerful data-aggregation applications adopted to save time and drones taking to the air above many jobsites, despite lagging guidance from the Federal Aviation Administration.
More unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, are used on job sites today than a year ago, and most aren’t, strictly speaking, legal. On the positive side, 2,672 more of them are legal than a year ago. The FAA states that it approved that many Section 333 petitions, as of Dec. 18—an exception that allows companies to fly commercially.