Philadelphia reality capture
Cell-and-gene labs going into buildings older than the country.
Philadelphia has quietly become a leading global cluster for cell and gene therapy, the reason people call it Cellicon Valley. The Navy Yard, a manufacturing site that dates to the American Revolution, now holds one of the region's densest concentrations of life-science space, and historic buildings like The Curtis have been converted into working labs. Fitting a modern cleanroom into a building that old is a precision problem, and it is exactly the kind of thing a laser scan is built to solve.
Why does a lab conversion start with a scan?
A cell-and-gene facility carries dense mechanical, plumbing, and process systems, and it has to fit precisely inside a shell that was never drawn for it. When the shell is a converted office tower or an old Navy Yard building, the as-designed drawings are long gone or wrong. A laser scan captures the existing structure, slabs, and overhead as they truly are, and a coordinated scan-to-BIM model gives the design and construction team a base that matches the field so the systems land the first time.
The mechanical, electrical, and plumbing trades feel this most. Routing a chilled-water main or a cleanroom air handler through a century-old floor plate leaves no room to guess, which is why MEP contractors lean on an accurate point cloud before they fabricate anything.
Some of the oldest building stock in America needs careful capture.
Philadelphia holds buildings that predate the founding, and its universities and institutions occupy structures that have been altered continuously for generations. When one of them is adapted, restored, or documented for the record, the work has to respect fabric that cannot be replaced. A laser scan records ornament, framing, and geometry without touching the building, which is what a preservation architect needs. That is historic preservation scanning.
The same measured record supports everyday renovation and leasing across the city's older commercial and institutional buildings as building and interior documentation, so a design team never has to assume a wall is where the old plan says it is.
How we cover Philadelphia.
We do not keep an office in Philadelphia. We serve the metro through a nationwide network of vetted reality-capture technicians, and we produce and stand behind the deliverable ourselves. You deal with our team on scope, pricing, and the final model. A technician handles the capture on site. What you receive is the same standard whether the site is a lab conversion at the Navy Yard or a university building in University City.
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 itself. Modeling and BIM deliverables are scoped to the building and the level of detail the trades need. Tell us the square footage and what you need out of it, and we price it.
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Tell us what needs measuring in Philadelphia.
A lab or cleanroom going into an old shell, an MEP coordination job with no room for error, or a historic building that deserves an exact record. Send us the site and the deliverable you need, and we scan it, model it, and stand behind it.
Get a quoteQuestions about a Philadelphia project? Reach us at info@scanningandmodeling.com or (772) 210-4584.