For this project, we were asked to 3D scan the entire building and part of its immediate surroundings in colour, and to deliver a reduced point cloud and viewer, from which a 3D model would then be made.  

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The building comprises six floors, all with different layouts and uses.

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Due to the many corridors, separate rooms and limited accessibility of the building, the challenge in this project was to maintain a high level of accuracy. To ensure this, we used a total station to create a network of control measurement points in and around the building. This was done to link the inside and outside, without any deviation.

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The processed measurements produced a point cloud as well as a panoramic viewer for the site. In the viewer, markers were placed to show important structural elements from the 3D scan. 

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OUTCOME:

- 1 week of scanning

- 1,303 set-ups

- A point cloud of 1,600 GB, containing44,817,280,366 points 
=> Reduced to 15 point clouds of ± 2 GB each

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