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Laser scanning technology improved the executed of renovation projects

In the beginning when architects, engineers and contractors came to know that they can also utilize laser scanning technology for measuring the dimensions of the building they were shocked to a great extent. They never imagined that building construction would also become such high-tech activity one day, wherein highly advanced and unconventional tools such as 3D laser scanners and building design software products like Revit would be used by them for developing a building. Since architects, engineers, general contractors and building owners were only familiar with manual survey process when it comes to gathering the existing conditions of an old building in context of renovation, they found it extremely alarming to implement 3D laser scanning for measuring building dimensions.


The manual survey process required Architecture, Engineering and Construction drawings professionals to visit the actual site and then take the measurement of the building. This was very difficult as well as time taking process, wherein most of the cases surveyors used to commit huge mistakes in measuring the dimensions which ultimately used to create too many problems for architects and engineers.

But laser scanning technology came as a blessing for architects and engineers, who could now get accurate information about the building through laser scanners. For proceeding with laser scanning process surveyors are required to install or situate 3D laser scanners near the building which can help them in extracting correct building data. This building data which is extracted during the survey process is known as point cloud data and it is used by architects, structural engineers, MEP engineers and technicians for developing 3D parametric models which can be ultimately used when actual renovation takes place.

BIM authoring tool which is used by architects, engineers and  BIM modelers for the construction of architectural, structural and MEP models  is known as Revit. Autodesk is the developer of all the Revit disciplines which include Revit Architecture, Revit Structure and Revit MEP.  Since these models are developed digitally in Revit’s conceptual design environment and its project environment, it does not take much time for BIM technicians to accomplish them. And all this finally simplifies the execution of renovation projects.


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