Industrial & As-Built

Industrial and as-built scanning records factories, processing plants, warehouses, and mechanical installations exactly as they are built and operating. We pair the Trimble X7 and Trimble X9 for high-detail capture of plant, pipework, and structural steel with the NavVis MLX mobile scanner to cover large floor plates and long corridors at walking speed. The combined dataset becomes a digital twin that engineering, maintenance, and operations teams use for retrofit design, clash checking, and clearance verification.

Operating sites change constantly. New racking goes in, equipment is relocated, pipe runs are added, and the P&IDs and layout drawings fall behind. That gap creates safety and maintenance risk and makes every expansion project start with a measurement exercise. A single scanning visit captures pipes, valves, supports, steel, equipment, and clearances at once, so the engineering team designs against verified geometry instead of marking up superseded drawings or measuring by tape around live plant.

We model and document to the level the decision requires. Deliverables range from a registered point cloud for your in-house modellers through to as-built CAD drawings, piping layouts with centre-line geometry and outside diameters, and structural steel models. Pipe runs are typically modelled from 50mm diameter and above with accurate routing, fittings, and support locations, which is the detail retrofit clash checking and maintenance planning depend on. Outputs suit AutoCAD Plant 3D, Revit MEP, and Navisworks coordination workflows.

Capture is planned around production. Our scanners are eye-safe Class 1 instruments that do not interfere with electrical or mechanical equipment, so work can proceed during shifts, shutdowns, or maintenance windows where the safety case allows. For large facilities, mobile scanning covers broad areas in minutes while terrestrial scanning handles the critical mechanical zones where millimetre detail matters. All data merges into one unified, registered point cloud with a QA report.