APRIL 2025 says. Again, he credits that ability largely to his experience. “Oil companies and mining companies used to hire me to do constructability reviews for engineers,” he explains. “So I would oversee multiple engineers on their designs and give them feedback on how we can make it constructible so that when we get out into the field we have ironed out some of the changes. After doing that for a few years, I learned to look at a set of plans and visually identify what needs changing to make them work. I also learned how to make those changes in the field. That’s an ability I’ve picked up over the years.” Part of KD Construction’s ability to be efficient and re-design as needed should also be attributed to the technology they use. GPS is common in their line of work and several of their pieces of equipment are outfitted with Trimble Sitech GPS hardware for efficiency and accuracy. In conjunction with Trimble Business Center (a Trimble CAD/Civil 3D model program), they actually have the ability to create project models in-house for the GPS equipment. KD Construction also uses drone technology to capture large areas of survey information with a designated flight path that can cover up to 200 acres in 15 minutes – it would typically take ground surveyors three-to-five days to extrapolate that much data. By using drones like that, and by using the Propeller program, they can capture highresolution survey topography data that is within two centimeters accuracy and a two-centimeter grid.
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