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Excellence in design begins with a comprehensive understanding of existing conditions. Our HDS (High Definition Surveying or 3-D Laser Scanning) scanners collect up to 500,000 points per-second to produce a very dense and accurate collection of individual measurements known as a "point cloud" with a positional accuracy of 6mm. HDS measures existing building interiors and exteriors, pipe networks, construction sites, bridges, historical sites, topography and more and can produce a 2-D or 3-D CAD model; a dependable starting point to test and verify design concepts that account for existing conditions. A single HDS laser scan session builds a foundation and enhances coordination among architects, engineers, planners, developers, and contractors with everyone working from the same database while simultaneously maintaining the utmost in work place safety because you don't have to "touch" the objects to scan them.
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SITE
HDS spans the barrier between existing conditions and design conceptualization. An HDS scan produces as-builts supporting a wide range of surveying, engineering and architectural designs. HDS details all visible site features where planimetrics, breaklines and spot elevations are compiled to create precise topographic maps. An HDS site survey serves the project team's multiple disciplines, providing architectural details for rehabilitation projects and allowing urban designers and city planners to simultaneously integrate design concepts into surrounding conditions. Real world accuracy is achieved while producing 3-D renderings and animations; the heart of engaging project presentations to clients, stakeholders, and decision makers.
BUILDING
Buildings often deviate from their original blueprints as they age and incur small changes. Undocumented changes can become huge problems when they crop up in the construction phase. HDS captures these changes by using millions of laser-generated measurements of the interior, subterranean, and interstitial spaces of a building, its mechanical equipment, pipe networks, steel members, and concrete structures. HDS data enhances the Building Information Modeling (BIM) process and produces meticulous 3-D objects, 2-D floor plans, reflective ceiling plans, elevations, and sections. Integrated into CAD/BIM environments it will enhance design, project coordination and clash detection. HDS provides post-construction value to the BIM by performing a "BIM as-built".
PLANT
HDS is an ideal tool for industrial plants and mechanized settings. Phase-based HDS scanners capture complex piping and steel networks for even the most difficult-to-reach areas. We use industry leading software to create 3-D modeled objects from these scans that can be matched to a manufacturer's parts table, thus ensuring that the modeling corresponds to the facilities installed. This can then be integrated into various design packages to give a true, real world "as-built" of the facility. This "as-built" model supports design, coordination, facility maintenance, management planning, and future virtual design and construction activities.
WEB
An HDS scan is published in a user-friendly interactive Internet Explorer based tool that allows you to pan 360° around your project. Create your own mark-ups by measuring basic dimensions thus enhancing your project's site intelligence from the comfort of your office. As a demonstration, we published our own office on our web site, take a look.
TECHNOLOGY
We can leverage our phase-based and time-of-flight scanners to fit your project's needs. Point Cloud information is made available to a multitude of software platforms including but not limited to AutoCAD, Microstation, Navisworks, Revit, 3ds Max and many others either directly or through third party software plug-ins. Contact us for your software's specific requirements.
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Laser scanning a project provides maximum information capture, enabling multiple discipline utilization of a single survey mission. The density of the collected point data insures accurate and redundant measurements.
The resulting 3-D point cloud is transformed into a 2-D or 3-D model of versatile and measurable objects able to test and verify new design with existing conditions.
Today's modern laser scanner weighs approximately 20-30 lbs, is typically set on a survey tripod, positioned for the optimum capture of information, driven by the best line of sight and distance to objects, while insuring the utmost work place safety.
You don't have to touch objects to scan them. High ceilings, power lines, dangerous work areas can easily be measured from a safe distance or location.
Laser scanning can capture millions of positionally accurate points into a 3-D point cloud then model the points to 2-D or 3-D objects that can be annotated and incorporated in future designs in a multitude of software environments.
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