| Author: | Liu, Baiyang |
| Title: | Application of drones in urban renewal and renovation of old communities |
| Advisors: | Du, Yaping (BEEE) |
| Degree: | M.Eng. |
| Year: | 2025 |
| Department: | Department of Building Environment and Energy Engineering |
| Pages: | 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations |
| Language: | English |
| Abstract: | This study analyzes the present scenario and future development of drone technology applications in urban rebirth and resettlement of old communities. With the global city growth rate augmentation, the restoration and renovation of old architectural legacies in cities have become efficient and sustainable tools for achieving and promoting sustainable urban development. Nonetheless, the traditional building inspection process, with the purpose of renovating a large scale of communities, is renowned for its inefficiency, inaccuracy, high cost, and safety risks. Thus, it is hard to achieve the best results with the traditional method. The drone technology with this kind of efficiency, accuracy, affordability, and safety brings a novel way to the resolution of the dilemma. Employing the fully integrated work of multiple-mode sensors, such as lidar, hyperspectral camera, infrared thermal imaging, and others, drones are able to cover the surface of buildings at great speed and high accuracy, having the scientific data required for the renovation of old communities. This paper seeks to outline the international research reports and takes domestic practical cases to identify the present conditions of drone technology for building renovation to increase its economic and social benefits in cities and to strive for prospective developments in the future. Research results demonstrate that drone technology offers the most important and effective means to enhance the inspection efficiency, minimize renovation costs, guarantee security of the personnel, and contribute to the creation of sustainable cities, which leads a basis to be applied and taken into consideration in urban renewal projects. |
| Rights: | All rights reserved |
| Access: | restricted access |
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