Registered point cloud
The existing conditions in E57, LAS, and RCP, ready to link straight into Revit and Navisworks for reference and overlay.
For MEP Contractors
Catch the clash on the screen, not above the ceiling.
The existing duct runs where the drawings say the new pipe goes. You find out at rough-in, and now a crew is standing on a lift while the schedule slips. We scan what is actually up there, the ductwork, the pipe, the conduit, the steel, and model it to a coordination-ready LOD. Your team runs clash detection against real geometry and resolves the conflict in the model, before anyone cuts or hangs a thing.
The trouble is always in the space you cannot see.
Retrofit and renovation MEP lives or dies on what is above the ceiling, and the record drawings are rarely right. Systems were moved, added, and rerouted over decades, and none of it made it back to paper. Design to those drawings and the coordination model is wrong before it starts.
A laser scan captures every visible component up there at millimeter-level detail, duct, pipe, conduit, hangers, and structure, as one registered point cloud. That cloud is the honest as-built. Your new work gets designed and coordinated against it, so the model on the screen matches the plenum overhead.
What do you get for coordination?
LOD 350 MEP model
Ductwork, piping, and conduit modeled with the connections and interfaces between systems, the level of development coordination and clash detection rely on.
Clash-ready overlay
Existing geometry your design model runs against, so conflicts surface in coordination and get resolved before rough-in.
LOD 350 adds the connections between architectural, structural, and MEP systems that coordination needs. The full level-of-development breakdown and the point-cloud-to-Revit workflow are on the scan-to-BIM service page.
Is a scan accurate enough to coordinate against?
A terrestrial laser scanner captures visible surfaces to roughly two to four millimeters, dense enough that a duct, a pipe, and a beam all read as their true size and position. That is the accuracy MEP coordination is built on. Detailed modeling to LOD 300 through 350 typically runs a couple of weeks depending on how much is up there and how complex the systems are.
The one honest limit is line of sight. A scanner sees what it can see; anything fully boxed in behind hard lid or buried in a wall is captured where it enters and exits, not through the solid. Where access allows, we scan open before the ceiling closes, and that is when a retrofit scan earns its keep.
Published prices.
| Deliverable | Price |
|---|---|
| Half-day scan (capture) | $1,500 to $2,300 to start |
| Full-day scan (capture) | $3,500 to $4,100 to start |
| Modeling from the scan | $0.10 / sq ft ($500 min) |
Capture is the scan. The published modeling rate reflects a standard LOD; dense MEP modeled to LOD 350 carries more scope, so we confirm the number once we see the plans and the space. Send us the area and the systems you need modeled and we quote it.
Tell us about the job.
Send us the space, the square footage, and the systems you need documented. We scan the existing conditions, model them to a coordination-ready LOD, and hand you a cloud and a model your team can build the design against.
Get a quoteQuestions about a project? Reach us at info@scanningandmodeling.com or (772) 210-4584.