Articles Tagged with ''inspection''

Two structural engineers, originally from Puerto Rico, mobilized a team to inspect houses, at no cost to owners, damaged in the island's Jan. 7 quake.

After falling debris kills an architect executive, industry members look at facade laws around the country.

Plan offers two methods to determine inspection intervals. States could use one, the other, or a mix of both options.

Inspector: “When the driver’s GPS told him to make the next left ... he made a huge mistake by pulling into the garage.”

Growing up in heavy construction, and running projects for his dad during summers, one thing Gregory Penza says he learned is that the only way to compete in construction is to come up with new and better ways to do things.

The successful demonstration of safe operation of an inspection drone by a pilot located miles away and beyond visual line of site will help the Federal Aviation Administration develop rules and guidelines for routinely permitting commercial inspection flights in the future.

Drones provide unprecedented access and new techniques allow extensive analysis, but final decisions still call for a trained human eye

Industry officials hope tests will lead to easing restrictions on flights beyond line of sight and over people.