3D Scanning & Reality Capture
Successful Design Requires Accurate Data
In your world, uptime is vital, safety is paramount and reliable information is essential to efficient design and planning. 3D scanning gives your team accurate existing conditions up front, helping reduce rework, limit field verification and keep projects moving with fewer costly surprises.
HOW IT WORKS
When you’re working with an existing facility, you need to know what’s actually there. Old as-built drawings may be inaccurate. Measurements taken by hand introduce human error. Our 3D scanning services replace assumptions with certainty, giving your project a data-driven foundation.
1. Capture
Using advanced scanning hardware, our technicians collect the exact dimensions, orientations and conditions of your operation, along with high-definition 360-degree images.
2. Process
The scan data is processed into a point cloud, a precise 3D representation of the space built from millions of individual data points that can be navigated virtually and used as a record of the space as it exists today.
3. Model
When needed, the point cloud can be used to create a working 3D model, giving project teams a reliable reference for design and coordination.
MORE THAN MEASUREMENTS
BENCHMARKS YOU CAN BUILD FROM
Our scanning hardware and software capture building dimensions, components and equipment within 1/8 of an inch.
LESS TIME ON SITE
Keen technicians can capture up to 200,000 square feet of space in a day. That efficiency helps reduce the number of site visits needed, so design work can move forward faster.
MINIMAL DISRUPTION
Scanning is unobtrusive by nature. Our technicians work within your facility without interrupting production, keeping your people safe and your operation running.
Value Beyond the Project
The information captured in an as-built 3D scan provides a lasting digital record of existing conditions, including exact dimensions, true orientations and 360-degree photographic imagery.
That digital record can support a range of future planning, maintenance and operational needs such as:
- Capital spending planning and feasibility
- Disaster recovery planning and documentation
- Insurance coverage documentation and claims support
- Long-term facility management
- Virtual access to remote facilities without an on-site visit
Harness the Power of Data
3D scanning captures what exists. 3D modeling turns that data into a buildable project environment. BIM connects the model to the information that owners, engineers and operators need throughout the life of the facility.
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