Drones provide construction teams with an overhead view of job sites, materials, machinery, and people. Contractors are using the autonomous flying machines to record images and videos that help optimize everything from grading plans and operations to identifying differences between as-designed and as-built site plans. Their usefulness can be enhanced with thermal cameras and other add-ons like mapping tools and GPS units. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) provide a bird’s eye view of a job site, they offer builders a range of benefits that any other technology can’t match, and the top applications in commercial construction are for logistics, progress monitoring, as-built surveying, and marketing.