Getting the most accurate data on projects while they’re underway is often an endless stream of contradictory information from project superintendents, executive summaries and delayed invoices from subcontractors. Turner Construction—which has already seen some success with a pilot deployment of the CraneView sensor from Versatile last year—has decided to deploy the machine-learning-based system across its projects' cranes.
“The crane is right there at the center of the jobsite,” says James Barrett, Turner vice president and chief innovation officer, who sees CraneView as the key to better awareness of what’s happening on site. “It brings us a level of automation and a greater level of insight, it makes the whole [construction] process more scientific.” Under the new multiyear enterprise agreement with Versatile, Turner will make the CraneView package available to its jobsites across the country.