A REVOLUTION'S COMING

摘要

Jamie Williamson has seen the construction industry undergo a transformation before, and he believes he's about to see one again. Two-person surveying teams, "where one individual is looking through the instrument and the other is walking," were on every jobsite in the 1980s. Back then, Williamson, now an executive in Livermore, California, watched the duos work with interest. The irony was that he was keenly aware that a system that could be operated by just one person was already on the market... a system that was also more accurate and required half the labour. And yet, two-person crews continued to traipse through construction projects. Williamson remembers thinking that it wouldn't be long before the one-person system took over. "In a couple years, everyone is going to have one of those things," he predicted.