Ohio Earthmover Goes Airborne With Drones

摘要

Marty Savko Jr., a member of the 2013 class of Under 40 in Construction Equipment, was recognized partly because he implemented GPS machine control into his family-owned company, Nickolas Savko & Sons. Now the Columbus, Ohio, earthmover has added a new tool to its machine-control arsenal: a drone. Savko has integrated the drone into its bidding process. Cost per cubic yard is the key to any earthmoving bid, and the topographical surveys (topos) provided by engineering firms are notoriously inaccurate, he says.