St. Louis reality capture
St. Louis is measuring itself again, from the geospatial campus to the brick warehouses.
The city that spread west from the river now runs on two building stocks at once. To the north, a new geospatial and defense corridor is taking shape around the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's roughly $1.75 billion western headquarters campus, which opened in 2025, with Boeing's Defense, Space and Security headquarters back in the region and more than eighteen thousand employees nearby. A few miles south and east, block after block of nineteenth century brick warehouses are being gutted and reborn as lofts, offices, and breweries. Both worlds need the same thing before design starts. A measured, trustworthy record of what is actually there.
A geospatial economy runs on measured ground truth.
When the anchor tenant of your region is an agency built on precise geospatial data, the standard for as-built records rises across every trade that touches those facilities. Contractors fitting out secure space, integrators routing cable and mechanical systems, and owners documenting complex campuses all benefit from a point cloud that captures the real condition rather than a drawing that shows the intent. We turn that capture into coordinated scan-to-BIM models and clean building and interior documentation your design and facilities teams can build against.
Defense and aerospace work also lives on parts and assemblies, not just buildings. Where a component, a fixture, or a fabricated piece has to be verified against its design, our dimensional inspection compares the as-built geometry to the model and reports where it lands.
What do you do with a warehouse nobody has drawings for?
St. Louis has one of the richest stocks of historic brick warehouses in the country, and most of them predate any drawing you could trust. Timber columns have sagged, floors have moved, masonry walls lean where a century of settling took them. Before an architect can convert one of these buildings, the real dimensions have to come first. A full point-cloud scan records the as-is condition wall to wall, so the design starts from the building that exists rather than an assumption about it.
For adaptive reuse specifically, our historic preservation scanning documents the masonry, the structure, and the character features that have to be kept, and hands the design team the geometry they need to fit new systems into an old shell. From there the same scan feeds a coordinated scan-to-BIM model for the renovation.
How we serve the St. Louis metro.
We do not keep an office in St. Louis. 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 one team on scope, scheduling, and the model that comes back, whether the job is a warehouse loft near Washington Avenue or a facility out toward the geospatial corridor.
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 is priced by the square footage you want built. Tell us the building and the deliverable and we quote it directly.
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Tell us about the St. Louis building.
Send us the site, the square footage, and the deliverable you need. We scan it, build the model, and hand you a record you can design and build against.
Get a quoteQuestions about a project? Reach us at info@scanningandmodeling.com or (772) 210-4584.