The UKs new Labour government haspledged to build 1.5 million homesduring its first term in office.
To achieve this, it promises planning reform and the reintroduction of local housing targets.
Yet little attention has been given to the role of new technologies.
Droneshave the potential to transform the construction industry in the UK.
This makes them a viable, cheaper, and safer alternative to human construction workers for certain tasks.
Some of these laws differ on a local, national, and international level.
This increases the regulatory burden on construction companies, making it more challenging to operate efficiently.
Paperwork for the CAAs approval process for higher-risk commercial use cases can introduce delays to large-scale construction projects.
These resources would allow best practices to proliferate in the industry.
This would address privacy, noise, safety, human rights concerns, and the environment in one go.
This would include noise profiling, to ensure that drones operating in cities meet specific maximum noise levels.
The current laws governing drone use are based on the notion that a human decides the drones trajectory.
Who will be responsible if a control programme does not work as intended?
What kind of disclaimers are needed?
Another consideration is that AI techniques are based on statistics over limited data.
This means that they may never achieve theISO safety standardsthat form vital benchmarks for the construction industry.
