High Definition Surveying

What It Is

An ultra-fast, highly accurate alternative to traditional as-built documentation using laser scanning technology.

Why It’s Better

High-definition surveying supports the client’s development of comprehensive architectural, mechanical, structural, and civil design. It is particularly useful for recording details of unusual facilities, inaccessible areas, or challenging surfaces. Proven applications include:

  • Facility as-builts documentation
  • Historic preservation and archiving
  • Structural steel mapping and cataloging
  • Fabrication and construction inspection
  • Manufacturing and reverse engineering
  • Topographic mapping
  • Civil traffic and utility planning
  • Volume quantity analysis
  • Any situation that calls for preserving the staged history of a project (insurance, archiving, etc.)

In the past, the need for extensive physical access to structures, variable conditions and the amount of time it would take to document existing conditions was cumbersome and sometimes not feasible.

The Benefit

High-definition surveying reduces field data capturing, accelerates design development schedules, and provides comprehensive information on existing conditions, results in more accurate 3D models.

This technology also reduces construction errors, delays, field rework, and overall project costs creates as-built surveys for difficult facilities and inaccessible areas; provides detailed as-built and topographic surveys; can be used indoors or outdoors; and does not interfere with facility operations or construction activities.

Laser scan image of existing structural steel

Model development produced from laser scan

Final model produced from laser scan