The New Technology Changing Development

Fuscoe Engineering has developed a new optical capture software that promises to change pre-development, redevelopment and construction. The firm’s proprietary software scans a property or development site with a drone and converts the image into a 3D model that is within a half-inch accuracy. Pat Fuscoe, founder and CEO at the firm who revealed the new technology at a San Diego CREW event last week, believes that the benefits of the software will disrupt the architecture, engineering and design industries. He is already working with major clients, from Caruso to the Irvine Co. We sat down with Fuscoe to find out more about the technology, how his clients are responding and how it is going to make a big impact.

GlobeSt.com: Tell me about this new technology that you have developed to change the surveying process for development?

Pat Fuscoe: The optical capture is what we call it. We go out and fly the drone for eight minutes over the property, stuck a thumb drive into our computer and made a 3D plot of the environment. Then, we converted into Revit and delivered it to the team the next day. It took two days and $3,000, and the client got something way better. Instead of a circle that says tree, you get a tree in the model. If you need to know how high it is, you can go into the model and get the measurement, and it is exactly right. It is faster; it is better quality; and it is cheaper. This is exponentially better.