Oklahoma construction professionals face unique challenges, with terrain varying from mountain to the plains, cities to vast rural landscapes. It's hard to think about putting a helicopter in the air over a construction site for aerial photographs or videography here, when dust control is almost always an issue in the Sooner State.

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or construction drones in Oklahoma, are the most timely, cost-efficient way to get that high-definition footage you need, no matter what stage of the job you're on, from survey to safety, from security to sales. No more putting a pilot in the air, with the possible safety issues that entails, plus the labor cost of putting another person up there with a camera.

One licensed, experienced, construction drone pilot, on the ground, can put a super-maneuverable drone through its paces. Some of the benefits:

• Cost and risk are much lower


• Drones can enter hallways, rooms and smaller areas for visual, high-definition inspection of finishes, support beam welds, even concrete pours.


• Instead of walking the whole site, you sit in a comfortable chair, take a few notes from the video, and tomorrow, you're going straight to the issues that need correcting.


• Because they're so cost-effective, you can use drones and their pilots at any stage, from initial surveys to job-site safety monitoring to the high-definition aerial shots that the real estate professionals love for sales purposes.


• All pilots in our marketplace have obtained their FAA 333 exemption, which is required by the Federal Aviation Administration to commercially operate a UAV.