Maria EchavarriaChief Operating Officer| OpencontourSalt Lake City, Ut, United States
Can you provide specific examples of situations where having access to updates or records about field progress would have been beneficial in making more informed decisions or proactively addressing potential issues? For instance, instances where you were informed of damage caused to neighboring property during fieldwork or when the volume of materials in your yard stockpile unexpectedly decreased without explanation? Saving Changes...
Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten AssociatesNew Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Maria, having access to real-time data is beneficial in many ways. Take construction project as an example, seeing updates on safety issues could help avoid future issues or actually help save a life.
For example, deploying wearable sensors and IoT devices to monitor worker safety and compliance with safety protocols in real-time then providing reports that are accessible to all concerned parties can help a lot. Reports could include monitoring biometric data, detecting unsafe behaviors, and providing instant alerts in case of emergencies. Saving Changes...
Quality issues are a common example. Suppose you purchase some materials or product from a vendor, that fails your own internal testing more than acceptable. Having the data from all the prior tests pass or fail, you may quickly determine whether the quality is normally very good or very close to limits even when passing. If only the failed test results are recorded it takes more time and data to characterize the average quality.
In that same situation, having access to the vendor's own test data can reveal if the quality was good when delivered, but damaged in shipping or after arrival such as dropped, frozen, or damaged on installation. Saving Changes...
Maria EchavarriaChief Operating Officer| OpencontourSalt Lake City, Ut, United States
Thank you, this is very helpful. I'm curious about the technology used to track field progress. Is anyone utilizing drones or imagery for this purpose, and if so, how has your experience been with this technology? Additionally, I'd love to hear more about the factors driving your decision to use this technology or any challenges pushing you away from adopting it. Saving Changes...
Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten AssociatesNew Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Maria, on our construction projects, we use Drones for:
1) Aerial Syrveying and Mapping. 2) Safety Inspections in areas that are dangerous for us to reach. 3) Progress Monitoring in terms if images of videos for current progress.
Drones are frequently used these days and as long as you have a solid reason for needing them (like Safety Issues, or Mapping for areas that are hard to reach), then I see no reason to push away but you need to justify how it will add value (A small business case would help). Saving Changes...
In construction, the daily report aims to notify daily progress and the main concerns of the day. For example, we can detect on time potential conflicts with communities caused by the construction. Indeed, the team can implement mitigation actions to prevent any significant impact during the construction. This information helps to call an emergency meeting for risk analysis with the key stakeholders to evaluate the construction methods by searching for a minimal impact on the environment and communities surrounding the site. Saving Changes...
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