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work for the building , so that they can focus their efforts on the inside . In doing so , we can offer them one point of contact instead of ten . We ’ ve managed to cut months off schedules for owners such as Amazon , working to get a new facility online as quickly as possible , and you can only imagine the extra millions that they stand to make , by getting things moving that much earlier .”
Technological advancements
Despite the company ’ s rich heritage , F & S has a steadfast mentality to modernizing its operations . Besides the current COO ’ s efforts to introduce Lean Six Sigma ’ s principles of improvement , the organization has also been utilizing drone technology and AI for some time now .
“ Drones have arguably been one of the most beneficial technologies that we ’ ve brought onboard ,” Butch explains . “ Our old surveying method would take almost a week on a single project , as we would have to walk the entire space and mark out a grid system with wooden stakes every 50 feet . Even when we transitioned from that to GPS , we still required feet on the ground to gather hundreds of elevation points .
“ Today , what used to take two or three days to establish , can be completed in just a couple of hours . Furthermore , when we ’ re working on a large-scale removal project , between 15,000 and 20,000 cubic yards per day , we can use the drone to take volume measurements at the end of each day to get a precise idea of how much material we have moved . We continue to look at other technological advancements such as AI and have recently been delving into the world of ChatGPT , to support the production of SOPs and other documentation . Once the software has mapped out the bare bones
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