Residential Home Laser Scanning and Scan-to-BIM Project in Atlanta, Georgia

TrueScan provided 3D laser scanning and Scan-to-BIM services for a private residence in Atlanta, Georgia undergoing an extensive renovation.

Project Facts

Location: Atlanta, Georgia

Property Type: Private residence

Services:

• 3D laser scanning
• Scan-to-BIM
• Revit modeling
• Existing-conditions documentation

Size / Scope: Full residential scan and model for a major renovation

Areas Documented:

• Interior residential spaces
• Existing architectural conditions
• Building geometry needed for renovation planning

Deliverables:

• Point cloud data
• Comprehensive Revit model
• Existing-conditions documentation for architectural design

The Challenge

The residence was undergoing extensive renovations, but the architect did not have viable drawings that accurately represented the existing home.

One option was to measure the house manually and recreate it in Revit from those measurements. The alternative was to laser scan the residence and use the resulting point cloud to build the model.

The architect chose scanning because it offered a more accurate representation of the existing conditions at roughly the same cost as hand measurement.

TrueScan’s Approach

TrueScan laser scanned the residence in less than one day, capturing the existing geometry needed for the renovation.

The collected scan data was then used to create a comprehensive Revit model of the home. TrueScan delivered the completed model within a few additional days.

The Result

The architect received an accurate digital model of the residence that could be used as the foundation for renovation design.

By replacing manual measurement with laser scanning and Revit modeling, the design team was able to begin work with a more complete representation of the home while maintaining a comparable documentation cost.