The benefits don't stop at time savings. Starting projects with comprehensive, AI-developed site plans produced with high-quality Nearmap aerial imagery has allowed their power team to do more with less while improving the quality of conceptual designs and increasing confidence in plan accuracy. Additionally, Hotchkiss and AirWorks collaborated on a customized feature that has improved user experience for uploading ROW files for processing.

Doing More with Less and Saving

Without AirWorks, Hotchkiss would have needed to expand his teams to keep up with project volume. Teaming up with AirWorks is cost-effectively boosting production while reducing the need for recruiting, hiring, and training.

Improved Conceptual Designs

Developing conceptual designs with a more comprehensive site plan that includes features from AirWorks’ 14+ layers means Hotchkiss and his team can identify potential field interferences from the start. A more informed initial design means earlier permit submittals and smoother permitting and construction phases. Fewer changes down the line reduce timelines and allow the team to tackle more projects – ultimately resulting in faster payouts and bigger profits.

Increased Plan Accuracy

Collaborating with technology eliminates the pressure of manually identifying and drafting intricate site features, like manholes, fire hydrants, driveway aprons, and sidewalks, with positional accuracy. With AirWorks’ patented AI feature extraction and human-in-theloop QC, designers can be confident that they are working with deliverables that accurately capture the expected site features. At the same time, drafters can focus their time and energy on other aspects of the permit process and more valuable, thought-driven tasks.

Customized User Experience

MasTec’s underground utility projects run along extensive ROW corridors. To create the f iles for upload, Hotchkiss was spending a significant amount of time creating large polygons encompassing a permit-required buffer around the ROW. He envisioned a way that could make the process easier, and based on AirWorks’ partnership approach and the easy rapport he’d developed with the team, he felt comfortable bringing it up.

Hotchkiss pitched the idea of being able to select a processing area based on a centerline, which would then automatically encompass the buffer on either side. Understanding how this would significantly streamline the preparation of ROW files for processing, AirWorks’ software team got to work and made it happen. Now, MasTec and future utility clients can enjoy an easier, faster, and more credit-friendly process for selecting a ROW based on a centerline with an automatic buffer.

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