Most treatment plants have been expanded and modified for fifty years or more, and the record drawings tell maybe half the story. Then an upgrade project starts, and the consulting engineer is designing new piping through a gallery nobody has accurately measured since the seventies. 3DS Technologies scans water and wastewater facilities while they run. Clarifiers, digesters, galleries, pump stations. …

On paper, a warehouse is a simple box. In reality it is columns that are never quite on grid, clear heights that vary bay to bay, floors that slope, and services hanging exactly where the new conveyor wants to run. 3DS Technologies scans warehouses and distribution centres while they operate. Your layout, racking and automation decisions get made against the …

No vessel matches its drawings. Hulls are faired by hand, outfitting gets rerouted during build, and twenty years of refits leave the arrangement drawings as history rather than fact. Then a new system has to fit into a machinery space nobody has accurately measured since launch. 3DS Technologies scans vessels and shipyard facilities with survey grade laser scanning. The result …

Renovation projects go sideways for a simple reason: the house is not what the drawings say it is. Walls out of plumb, floors out of level, framing nobody expected. Every one of those surprises shows up as a change order. 3DS Technologies scans homes and residential buildings in a few hours and hands your designer the entire structure, measured. Additions, …

On a construction project, the most expensive information is the information you get late. Existing conditions that did not match the drawings. Work in place that drifted from the model. Both get found eventually. The only question is whether they get found before or after they cost money. 3DS Technologies scans buildings and sites for industrial and commercial construction teams. …

Manufacturing plants change constantly. Equipment gets moved, lines get added, and the drawings almost never keep up. When you plan a retrofit against drawings that are ten years out of date, you find the problems during installation, which is the most expensive possible time to find them. 3DS Technologies scans operating plants across Canada and the United States. We capture …

Oil and gas facilities are dense, live and unforgiving of bad measurements. A tie-in designed from old isometrics gets discovered as a clash during a turnaround, when every hour counts. That is the expensive way to find out the drawings were wrong. 3DS Technologies scans operating facilities without touching them and without shutting them down. Millions of measured points, captured …

Mines run on measurement. Stockpile volumes, clearances, the true condition of a processing plant that has been modified for thirty years. Getting those numbers by hand is slow, and in a lot of places on a mine site, it is dangerous. 3DS Technologies captures mine sites and processing facilities with survey grade laser scanning. Non contact, fast, and accurate enough …

Food and beverage plants live on uptime and sanitation. Nobody wants a measurement crew standing over a production line with tape measures and ladders, and nobody wants a line extension that does not fit on install day. 3DS Technologies scans processing and packaging facilities without touching anything. We work around your production windows and your hygiene protocols, and your engineers …