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3D BIM Modeling Services

3D BIM models from scan to BIM workflows provide architects, engineers, contractors, facility managers, and developers an accurate digital twin of buildings and infrastructure to collaborate on design, construction, and operations.

  • Access 3D Revit models of building infrastructure
  • Collaborate on design-build with a shared 3D model
  • Improve workflows across design and construction processes
  • Reduce rework, clashes, and delays
  • Prefabricate building components
  • Utilize BIM throughout a building’s lifecycle for maintenance and upgrades
3D BIM Modeling Services
Existing Conditions 3D BIM Modeling Services explained

BIM provides a virtual model for better decision-making and cost-savings.

3D laser scanning captures comprehensive site data in a LiDAR point cloud, which can be converted into accurate 3D BIM models. These models help project teams collaborate in a shared environment, identify issues early, and make informed decisions. Scan-to-BIM helps minimize miscommunication, errors, and rework, and ensure projects are completed on time and within budget.
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Existing Conditions 3D BIM Modeling

What are the Benefits of 3D BIM Modeling?

With accurate BIM models created from Existing Conditions’ laser scan data, you can help your team to visualize any project, even if off-site, identify potential issues early, and make informed decisions.

3D Digital Representation

Obtain millimeter-accurate dimensions, locations, and geometry of your building’s architectural, structural, and MEP elements in a digital twin for precise design and construction.

Real-Time Collaboration

Streamline your design-build processes by sharing BIM models instantly, leading to fewer misunderstandings and faster decision-making.

Accurate Project Planning

BIM provides precise data for material take-offs, cost estimates, and scheduling, helping to facilitate planning and minimize waste.

Minimize Clashes and Delays

By identifying potential clashes between different building elements early on, BIM coordination helps minimize costly rework and delays during construction.

Faster Project Delivery

By improving workflows across design and construction phases, scan to BIM can accelerate project delivery.

Support Building Management

Utilize the Revit model throughout the building’s lifecycle, as a reliable digital record for ongoing maintenance, upgrades, and facility management.
Existing Conditions 3D BIM Modeling

What are the Benefits of 3D BIM Modeling?

With accurate BIM models created from Existing Conditions’ laser scan data, you can help your team to visualize any project, even if off-site, identify potential issues early, and make informed decisions.
  • 3D Digital Representation

  • Real-Time Collaboration

  • Accurate Project Planning

  • Minimize Clashes and Delays

  • Faster Project Delivery

Start Accurate. Stay Accurate.

Trusted Partner

We see our work as a partnership, aiming for long-term relationships where your success drives ours.

Expert Team

Our skilled Project Managers use LiDAR laser scanners to capture precise layouts, dimensions, and details of all building features.

Comprehensive Data Capture

Laser scanners gather millions of data points, creating a point cloud that captures every detail, even in hard-to-reach areas.

As-Built Drawings
& 3D BIM Models

We convert point clouds into 2D CAD drawings, 3D BIM models, TruViews, virtual tours, and more—perfectly tailored to your project.

Trusted Partner

We see our work as a partnership, aiming for long-term relationships where your success drives ours.

Expert Team

Our skilled Project Managers use LiDAR laser scanners to capture precise layouts, dimensions, and details of all building features.

Comprehensive Data Capture

Laser scanners gather millions of data points, creating a point cloud that captures every detail, even in hard-to-reach areas.

As-Built Drawings
& 3D BIM Models

We convert point cloud data into custom 2D CAD drawings, 3D BIM models, TruViews, virtual tours, and more—perfectly tailored to your project.

Industries We Serve

3D laser scanning and drone surveys support many industries with precise as-built documentation to optimize planning and mitigate costly errors.

Architecture

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Construction

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Facilities Management

Engineering

Commercial Real Estate

Entertainment

What to Expect

Our 3D Laser Scanning Process

01

Plan

At Existing Conditions, our team evaluates your project scope, site conditions, and technical specifications to deliver precise 3D laser scanning. Through careful pre-scan planning and selection of capture technologies, software, and Level of Development (LOD), we ensure data meets your project standards.
02

Reality Capture

The Project Manager selects the appropriate laser scanning technology – terrestrial or Matterport – based on the project’s scale, detail, and accuracy requirements. The scanner captures millions of X, Y, and Z coordinates, delivering dimensional accuracy and a comprehensive spatial dataset aligned with the project’s scope and objectives.
03

Registration & Processing

The Existing Conditions Mapping & Modeling team processes point cloud data by removing noise, redundant points, and extraneous objects, aligning the scans to real-world coordinate systems. This optimized dataset forms the basis for accurate 3D Revit models, 3D meshes, and 2D CAD drawings tailored to the project’s specifications.
04

Quality Assurance

Our Mapping & Modeling team implements a rigorous quality assurance process for all point cloud datasets and deliverables, delivering high accuracy, consistency, and reliability across every project.
05

Delivery

Existing Conditions provides data, as-built documentation, and 3D Revit models in customized file formats, including GIS and SiteMap integration. Our technical team ensures smooth onboarding and ongoing support, making it easy to navigate point cloud data, even for those new to 3D laser scanning.
Existing Conditions Project Managers at a worksite

Frequently Asked Questions

What are the Benefits of 3D Laser Scanning?

3D laser scanning captures millions of 3D data points per second for each scan location, providing incredibly rich data of a building or project site. Sites are captured in high detail the first time, eliminating disruption and the need for return visits. Datasets are dimensionally accurate, measurable and shareable, expediting project planning and execution. Accurate design plans are produced from the start expediting field work and reducing change orders, delays and costs. Communication is improved, teams can discuss plans while each has access to the same information, creating a more dynamic working environment.

What is Scan-to-BIM Used For?

Scan-to-BIM is a process that uses 3D laser scanning to create a building information model of a building or site. BIM models provide a comprehensive view of a building that can be used throughout its lifecycle – during the design phase, construction phase, and operation phase of the building. The BIM model can be used during the design and planning stages of a project from design changes to material selection, and cost estimation. During the construction phase, the model can be used to coordinate and manage different trades and ensure the building is constructed according to the design intent. During the operation phase, the model can be used to manage maintenance and repairs, track the performance of the building, and plan for future improvements.

How is CAD different from BIM?

CAD is technology and software designed to produce precise technical drawings —replacing manual hand-drawn and drafting techniques with a digital process. CAD is used in many fields, including architecture and engineering, to create accurate and efficient representations of sites.

BIM, or Building Information Modeling, is a process of visualizing a digital representation of a physical asset via the 3D model and includes richer levels of data, including information on materials and equipment. Architects, engineers, and construction managers can track and monitor a building through its entire lifecycle, from initial design to construction, operations, and maintenance. Project teams can collaborate, share information, and monitor project costs using BIM.

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We deliver digital representations of buildings to architects, builders, engineers, and developers, including point clouds, 2D CAD drawings, and Revit models to ensure accuracy and clarity in the project details.