Drones have become an essential tool for many contractors; improving safety, increasing efficiency, and providing data-rich insights that help teams build smarter. Now, the FAA’s newly proposed Part 108 rule could accelerate that adoption and allow for widespread, autonomous drone operations across jobsites nationwide. Wondering what the impact to construction could be?
In a new episode of AGC of America’s ConstructorCast, host Max Nelson speaks with Spencer Phillips, AGC’s in-house attorney for regulatory and litigation advocacy, and Grant Hagen, Head of Community at DroneDeploy, to unpack the FAA’s proposed Part 108 rule for Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) operations.
Published in August, the proposed rule — formally titled Normalizing UAS Operations Beyond Visual Line of Sight — marks the FAA’s first major step toward integrating large-scale commercial drone activity into the national airspace. The episode explains why the proposal is significant and what contractors need to know.
Hagen highlights how these changes align with technological advances already happening in the field — especially as “drone-in-a-box” systems and AI-driven flight planning become more capable.
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