Application of Remotely Piloted Unmanned Aerial Vehicle in Construction Management

Construction projects may face challenges due to long project duration, uncertainties and big size. In recent times, remarkable research work has been done on automation of construction. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles are exponentially being utilized in various civil engineering areas like land surveying, crack detection, construction logistic management, highway asset management and site inspection. It is always difficult to monitor and track the status of a large construction site. However, unmanned aerial vehicles collect huge data of a construction project quickly. Remotely located large-scaled construction sites can be monitor by using advanced IT technology in a frequent manner. In this research endeavor, a drone has been used for construction monitoring of the G+6 building with the help of Pix4D software. This research proposed the unmanned aerial vehicle enabled site to automation building information modeling (BIM). Unmanned aerial vehicle-captured visual data can be utilized effectively with the help of Pix4Dbim. The robotic data collection during construction monitoring can provide enormous benefits to building information modeling.