As-Built Surveys in Richmond, CA

Richmond's waterfront is one of the East Bay's richest grounds for adaptive reuse: wartime shipyard-era industrial buildings, warehouses, and big-span structures on large redevelopment parcels, most with fragmentary or vanished drawings. These are buildings measured in acres, not rooms, and hand-measuring them is impractical. Our Trimble terrestrial laser scanner documents an entire industrial building in a single mobilization — long column grids, heavy timber and steel trusses, crane ways, loading structures — as millions of survey-grade points, from which we deliver floor plans, sections, and elevations in DWG/DXF, Revit models at LOD 200 or 300, or the E57/RCP cloud for the developer's design team.

Reuse design on the shoreline also has to reckon with the ground: much of the waterfront sits on fill in mapped liquefaction zones, and scan-derived floor-elevation data shows engineers exactly how slabs and foundations have settled before anyone commits to a structural scheme. Away from the water, Richmond's WWII-era wartime housing tracts present the opposite problem — thousands of small, fast-built homes now being remodeled one at a time, none of them square, none of them documented. A single scanning visit produces honest plans for these houses at a cost proportional to their size. In Point Richmond, hillside cottages and commercial buildings on the historic district's irregular streets benefit from the same approach, with exterior elevation work supporting sensitive alterations. When reuse projects trigger new parcels or lot reconfiguration, our parcel maps work proceeds under the Subdivision Map Act.

Everything captured stays available: dimensions requested months later are pulled from the archived cloud without re-entering the building. Richmond is in Contra Costa County, so records of survey and subdivision filings connected to these projects go through the Contra Costa County Surveyor and Recorder.