3D Scanning in Alameda, CA

Alameda gives a scanner more open volume to work with than almost any city its size. Alameda Point carries hangars, shops, and industrial buildings on a scale that makes conventional measurement impractical, along with acres of apron and taxiway paving, the seaplane lagoon bulkheads, and wharf structures at the water. Tenants and their architects moving into that stock need clear heights under the trusses, column grids, crane and door dimensions, and slab conditions before a layout means anything, and the reuse teams behind them need the site itself documented at the same time. Across the rest of the island, the older commercial buildings along Park and Webster Streets, the marinas, and the maritime and light-industrial businesses along the estuary raise the same question in smaller rooms: what is actually there, measured rather than remembered.

The island is also defined by the ways on and off it, and those are structures somebody has to keep documenting. The Posey and Webster Street tubes carry State Route 260 under the estuary, the Park Street, Fruitvale, and High Street bascule bridges lift over it, and ferry terminals, shoreline levees, and bulkheads face a sea-level-rise planning horizon that starts with knowing exactly where the top of the structure is today. Scanning is the practical method for all of it: control-network survey-grade capture that yields clearance envelopes inside a tube, structural as-builts of a bridge span or a wharf deck, and baseline epochs a later scan can be differenced against on ground that is filled, soft, and settling. We tie the work to published benchmarks so vertical results are defensible rather than relative.

Deliverables include the registered point cloud in E57 or RCP, DWG and DXF plans, sections and elevations, Revit models, and surfaces or clearance diagrams. See our infrastructure scanning, Alameda as-built surveys, and Alameda topographic surveys.