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Balancing with Drones: Using UAVs for Site Balancing and Haul-Road Design

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    Description

    Do you have a drone and are curious about what you can use it for beyond pictures? Do you want to balance earthwork volumes on a large project site that is constantly changing? This course studies a project where a drone was used to find the optimal location of a haul road and balance the earthwork in its construction. With a 200-acre site and multiple phases of landscaping, finding a location for haul roads was proving to be a challenge. As the project moved between phases, the haul road had to be moved to facilitate landscaping and grading. We needed a way to locate the road for as long as possible, while keeping the earthwork balancing to zero. By taking flight, we used the drone to identify a location for the road and obtain a topography survey, which enabled us to design a haul road that balanced to zero. This session features AutoCAD Civil 3D. AIA Approved

    Key Learnings

    • Find out what benefits there are to utilizing a UAV or drone on a construction site
    • Understand what it takes to utilize a UAV on an active construction site
    • Take away lessons learned from solutions to real-world challenges using drones for aerial surveys
    • Learn how to develop custom workflows and identify required resources to create consistent and reliable data to use for earthwork

    Tags

    Product
    Civil 3D
    Industries
    Site Development (General civil engineering)
    Architecture
    MEP engineering
    Structural engineering
    Civil / Site development contractors
    Structural contractors
    Finishing contractors
    MEP contractors
    General contractors
    Product design and manufacturing
    Topics
    Urban Planning & Design
    Construction Management
    Design
    CAD Management & IT