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The Power of Drone Data

LOS ANGELES—Drones are impacting commercial real estate in a major way, delivering data with site images, construction projects and building details, like cracks, water leaks and mudslides.

By Kelsi Maree Borland | Updated on October 20, 2015

LOS ANGELES—Drone technology is on the brink of changing the commercial real estate industry in a major way. The data that drones can collect, record and transmit in real time can deliver site images, track labor, update construction progress and gather pertinent property data, from foundational cracks to water leaks, according to a panel of drone experts at the CoreNet Global Summit in Downtown Los Angeles. Peter Blake, director of fleet operations at Skycatch; Kitty O’Connell Henry, Shareholder at Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr; Tomislav Zigo, director of virtual design and construction at Clayco, and panel moderator Ken Ashley, executive director at Cushman & Wakefield, discussed how drones would impact the CRE world.

“The value is not in the hardware, but in planning and analytics,” Blake said on the panel. “Drones will become commoditized, but it is the data that will become important.” He adds that in addition to gathering a wide range of data, drones also are able to collect data safely by entering job sites that may be potentially dangerous for people. As a result, drones are expected to improve construction productivity by $6.2 billion.

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