Measured Building Surveys - Elevations
  
The façade of a building is the part most prominent to the public eye. Planning authorities and organisations such as English Heritage are particularly concerned that facades, particularly of listed buildings, retain their original character during any remedial, alteration or restoration work.

Traditionally, detailed surveys of these facades had to be done by gaining access to the elevation, usually via scaffolding. High quality elevations can now be produced by using High Density Surveying and our state-of-the-art Laser Scanners. This technology means that detailed elevations can now be surveyed without requiring access to the building.

Surveying complex elevations with a Laser Scanner also provides a number of direct benefits in the quality of the data by:
  • Avoiding assumptions
  • Avoiding Generalisations
  • Avoiding errors in interpretation
  • Reducing costly errors by having the original data cloud to refer back to
  • Surveying remotely in real time (checking results in the field)
  • Avoiding the need for direct access – thereby reducing health and safety risks
  • Allowing rapid data gathering where time is short
This technique also works well where the project is poorly defined or subject to scope change. With the scan cloud dataset, sections may be extracted or building footprints extracted at any given floor level, without the need for a site revisit.

Also, a value added by-product of this approach is that the 3D scan cloud is available for quality assurance, visualisations or for the client to extract further measurements as and when required.

Please refer to our laser scanning page for additional information. Learn More..

In terms of deliverables, you will still receive a standard hard copy paper plot and 2D elevation model in AutoCAD format as with conventional techniques.

Please call us to discuss your requirements.