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Construction cameras enhance PM This eye-in-the-sky construction camera provides an excellent view for stakeholders in the A/E/P and environmental consulting industry. P R O F I L E
By LIISA ANDREASSEN Correspondent W ould you like to connect everyone on a proj- ect to the job site to improve project man- agement and communication and ultimately get a more efficient build? Your answer is likely, “yes.” Well, construction webcam service provider, Ox- Blue, might be the solution you are looking for. High-resolution jobsite images, high-definition time-lapse videos, and intuitive technologies it provides can connect all the dots. “Interested parties in places like Dubai and Paris were pulling up the camera to monitor project progress on a regular basis.” Dan Maxwell, former project director with AD- AMS Management Services (Atlanta, GA), an in- dependent project management firm, reports that OxBlue provided to the company with the ability to communicate with multiple parties all over the world. “Interested parties in places like Dubai and Par- is were pulling up the camera to monitor project progress on a regular basis,” he says. To further help project managers, investors, and other stakeholders monitor building, track prog- ress, and coordinate logistics, OxBlue now offers a 24-MP time-lapse construction camera that pro- duces images measuring 6,000 by 4,000 pixels to provide clients with high-resolution, detailed im- ages. The images, which are transmitted over cellu- lar networks via cellular technology built into the cameras, are viewed using OxBlue’s construction camera interface. Among the features the interface provides is the ability to zoom in on images to see “It gave us the ability to confirm schedule delays due to things like weather and it also allowed me to monitor project site work from the road.”
details up close. With the 24-MP construction web- cam, users can now see fine details while retaining image quality and clarity. OxBlue static and pan-tilt-zoom construction cam- eras take pictures of a jobsite continuously, captur- ing virtually every moment of construction. That extent of documentation provides a complete pho- tographic record of a project, enabling stakehold- ers to understand such things as how to coordinate crews or deliveries to meet a certain deadline or how and when a problem occurred on the jobsite. “We were able to go back and determine things like weather conditions and were clearly able to view date stamps. This feature alone saved us $2 million.” Maxwell says that he particularly liked the time- lapse function. “It gave us the ability to confirm schedule delays due to things like weather, and it also allowed me to monitor project site work from the road,” Max- well says. John Morgan, a former vice president of develop- ment with Prologis (San Francisco, CA), an indus- trial real estate firm, agrees that the time-lapse function is invaluable. In fact, it provided the com- pany with the ability to trace back to a roof failure and analyze the conditions surrounding the failure.
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