Though the company will continue to offer its services in New Orleans and the surrounding areas, drone aerial photography company LandBros is in the process of closing on office space in Baton Rouge and moving its operations here.
Danny Landry, who founded the company a little more than a year ago with his brother, Kevin Landry, says demand is driving the move.
“We’ve just found ourselves driving to the Lake Charles and central Louisiana areas more and more, and the areas surrounding Baton Rouge,” says Danny Landry. “By moving the operations to Baton Rouge, it helps us out a lot with the travel and time costs. And there’s also just a lot of big projects in the area, and we’re working on quite a few of them.”
For example, LandBros just finished working on a project for The Water Campus, Danny Landry says. The move is also something of a homecoming for the Landrys, who are Baton Rouge natives. Kevin Landry already lives here, and Danny is in the process of moving here from New Orleans.
When LandBros was launched last year, it was the first company in Louisiana to get an exemption from the Federal Aviation Administration to fly drones for commercial use. Since then, a handful of other companies in the state have also received an exemption, but Danny Landry says none of them are currently working in the Capital Region.
Because the Landrys both have experience working in construction, they’ve focused their company on servicing the industrial construction industry. Its ever-growing list of clients—which has expanded tenfold since the company was founded—includes Turner Industries, Brown & Root, CB&I, The Lemoine Co. and Louisiana CAT.
LandBros has capitalized on being on the forefront of the burgeoning commercial drone industry, and the company’s services stretch far beyond simple aerial photography.
“What I say is we’re a data collection firm that creates efficiencies on job sites,” says Danny Landry, explaining the company is providing clients everything from inventory management and project progress monitoring to facility inspections and 3-D modeling. “Whether that’s tracking asphalt on a job site or generating a progress model, we’re here to increase efficiency. And we’re really just in the infancy of it all now, which is very exciting. This technology is only going to be used more and more as time progresses. We’re growing very quickly, and 2016 is certainly going to be a very big year for us.”
Read a recent Business Report feature on LandBros.
—Steve Sanoski
