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Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Practical issues on the use of drones for construction inspections
2019 •
Luca De Vito
The aging and deterioration of structures such as bridges or buildings is becoming an urgent social issue; regular inspections for the preservation of the structures are needed, but it means high cost especially in terms of safety for workers due to the difficulty to access. Visual inspection of workers can be replaced by using basic drones, which share many advantages such as speed, safety for the workers, cost-effectiveness, share-ability with more stakeholders instantly and manoeuvrability by making use of automated flights. A visual inspection made by drone is the first part of a complex survey campaign, and its use allows planning experimental investigation for diagnostic. This study analyses both the positive and negative aspects of the use of drones for structural inspection, underlying the low cost, immediacy, instant measurement and the possibility of developing a 3D model, with an acceptable level of definition and reliable for a diagnostic process. Two application example...
International Journal of Business Analytics & Intelligence
A Report on the Application of Drones in Infrastructure Safety
2022 •
Publishing India Group
The term ‘drone’ usually refers to any unpiloted aircraft. Sometimes referred to as ‘unmanned aerial vehicles’ (UAVs), these crafts can carry out an impressive range of tasks, ranging from military operations to package delivery. Drones are a valuable addition to any industrial facility’s efforts, as they sanction a limitless aerial perspective. The opportunities for drones to have real worth are endless. A drone is mainly used in the construction industry for surveying and inspection purposes. Drones are equipped with downward facing sensors, such as RGB, multi spectral, thermal, or LIDAR, and they can capture a great deal of aerial data in a short time. The main objective of drones in infrastructure is mainly in the area of safety. Drone technology makes the job of site inspectors safer, as they can conduct inspections remotely without entering hazardous areas. In addition, drone inspections are faster and cost-effective. The methodology of drone application in infrastructure is that they provide construction teams with an overhead view of job sites, materials, machinery, and people. Contractors are using the autonomous flying machines to record images and videos that help optimise everything, from grading plans and operations to identifying differences between asdesigned and as-built site plans. Drones in construction allow contractors a chance to monitor any issue, track progress, and develop better plans on-site by providing an unrivalled view of a site at a fraction of the cost.
Usability assessment of drone technology as safety inspection tools
Javier Irizarry
Open Engineering
New trends in visual inspection of buildings and structures: Study for the use of drones
João Lanzinha
Visual inspection is a very simple, non-destructive technique and usual in diagnosing buildings and structures’ conditions. It also plays an important role in the rapid assessment of constructive problems as well as in the definition of an appropriate way for eventual remedial interventions. However, the use of this methodology often meets difficulties, especially when places to be inspected are difficult to access; it involves security risks for inspectors or even when a reactive inspection of urgent nature becomes unfeasible due to the high costs and the necessary means involved. In this context, the introduction of new technologies, such as drones, can bring substantial benefits. Currently, great focus has been put on this type of device as an emerging technology in the construction industry. This article treats about a reflexion on the adaptability and versatility of using drones, within a framework for monitoring the condition of buildings’ envelope, just as for other kinds of ...
Usability Assessment of Drone Technology as Safety
2012 •
Javier Irizarry
Journal of Construction Project Management and Innovation
A Schema for Improving Construction Safety with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
2020 •
John Smallwood
This article aims to outline how to deploy unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for on sites use in South African construction. The use of UAVs is gaining traction in the construction industry, where cyber-physical systems are promoting digital-to physical transformation. Among others, UAVs help assures the safety of people in construction. For instance, they are controlled remotely while moving faster than humans into inaccessible, hard-to-reach, and unsafe areas of job sites. They can be equipped with various types of sensors to transfer valuable data to safety managers and assist with onsite safety monitoring. Based on realised gains and the need to motivate its use, this article uses presents a schema that could help managers deploy UAVs on construction sites for safety performance purposes. The literature-based report utilised the keywords unmanned aerial vehicles and safety in construction to search the relevant database. The findings reveal that the critical hazards on constructio...
International Journal on Advances in Intelligent Systems
Qualitative and Quantitative Risk Analysis of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Flights on Construction Job Sites: A Case Study
2019 •
Hashem Izadi Moud, Alireza shojaei
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been extensively used on construction job sites in the last ten years. UAVs applications span from progress monitoring and site monitoring to structural health inspection and construction safety. While different applications of UAVs on job sites have been extensively researched, the risks and hazards of flying UAVs on construction job sites have never been quantitatively or qualitatively measured. Around the world, the general aviation industry developed sophisticated methods to evaluate risks of UAV flights over general population. However, in construction domain, discussions over risks of UAV flights is nonexistent. This is particularly interesting as the construction industry constantly maintains one of the highest rates of fatalities and injuries, among all other industries, in the world. Currently, UAVs are used in various construction activities regularly without proper risk assessment schemes or safety plans. Neither construction project managers nor construction safety officers have action plans in place for UAV safe use. This paper presents the first known quantitative and qualitative analyses of UAV flight risks in construction job sites. A quantitative model is presented and tested for UAV flight risk assessment, using the Monte Carlo Simulation technique. A case study tested the proposed model on an actual construction job site. The model proposed in this paper can be used by construction safety officers and construction project managers to take safety into account when planning UAV flights over job sites. This paper further argues that using models and methods introduced in this paper can make UAV flights in any environment safer and more reliable.
Drone based inspection services in industrial contexts: Risk assessment and market opportunities
2018 •
Giuseppe Aiello
INTRODUCTION Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is an emerging technology with the potential of introducing disruptive innovation in a large number of industrial and civil applications. In particular, many studies have highlighted the achievable advantages for “three Ds” (i.e., dull, dirty, or dangerous) missions, which actually represent their natural market niche. A huge potential market in such sense is constituted by high-risk industrial installations including Oil&Gas, chemical, power generation, shipbuilding, etc. where significant improvements can be achieved in terms of safety and ergonomics. This paper proposes a comparison between traditional inspection approaches and innovative drone-based services in high risk industrial contexts, with the objective of obtaining a clear picture of the safety risks involved.
IRJET
IRJET- DEVELOPMENT OF CONSTRUCTION SAFETY CHECKLIST FOR FALL PROTECTION
2021 •
IRJET Journal
This research represents the status of standards for safety used in construction and identifies areas of technical inconsistency.. Major technical sections of standards norms are compared in a checklist format to highlight the areas which vary and indicate lack of consensus. This information is analysed to develop a list of safety checklist needed for fall protection. A comprehensive understanding of the causal factors in Fall protection incidents is required. In spite of many safety checklist available in the market for different construction activities. The present study deals with the hazards arising in these construction activities.. The paper focuses on the use of survey based research technique along with macro level approach for evaluating different critical factors and proposing several mitigation techniques for avoiding hazards occurring during construction stages of project. The hazard analysis, accident analysis causes of accidents types of hazards were closely studied to achieve unsafe conditions which can be included in the checklist to avoid such falls.
Proceedings: 8th REA Symposium on Resilience Engineering: Scaling up and Speeding up Linnaeus Univerity, Kalmar, Sweden, 24th-27th June 2019
Reducing the gap between work as done and work as imagined on construction safety supported by UAS
2020 •
Dayana Costa
