Concept design from point cloud survey as quick as thought
- September 20, 2022
When I meet with a client on a Friday to look at the site of a building extension or office redesign, he is not prepared for me to leave an hour later with a surveyed point cloud of the complete existing condition – site, building, or office.
With the development of surveying solutions, that’s how long it takes today to digitize the environment down to the millimeter. The resulting point cloud can then be loaded into the design software and accurately shows the exact location of slopes, trees, branches, curbs, parking spaces, indoor furniture, overhanging lights, beams, pipes, and all relevant information.
This allows us to deliver a dead-on, precise, high-quality concept plan to the client’s desk the following week.
Slam-based laser scanning technology has brought unimaginable speed and new possibilities to our lives.
Our first client, who was shown a walk-through 3D model of his 4,500 m2 building extension based on a point cloud survey and integrated into the environment on the fourth day after the site visit, said after a minute of stunned silence:
“We expected this in a month’s time.”
And from now on, even if the site is abroad, we can work on it as if it were next door, or if we need to check the accuracy and progress of a construction project in the countryside (remote QA), we can now do it in the office, in virtual space.
Of course, this easy and simple solution comes at the cost of skilled colleagues and a brutal IT infrastructure, but we have invested, and it has become a daily practice in our office and a whole new quality of service in our clients’ lives.
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