3D Scanning in Davis, CA

Davis scanning starts with the university. UC Davis has the largest land area of any University of California campus, 5,300 acres, much of it agricultural research and teaching land, and the campus runs its own utilities, including a central heating and cooling plant that sends steam and chilled water to buildings through underground piping. That combination produces a particular kind of existing-conditions problem: teaching and research buildings renovated many times over, mechanical rooms and plant spaces packed with pipe, valves, and equipment, and design teams who have to route new work through space that no drawing set describes accurately. A scan captures the whole congested volume at once, and from it we produce plans, sections, and 3D linework of pipe runs and equipment that the engineer can design against. Campus projects run through the university's own facilities and contracting process, and we work inside whatever coordinate system and access rules the project sets.

The town has its own history to measure. The city's design guidelines cover a Conservation District taking in downtown and the older neighborhoods beside it. Near the tracks, the 1913 Southern Pacific depot, concrete and stucco in the Mission Revival style, still serves trains. East of town, Interstate 80 crosses the Yolo Bypass on the 3.2-mile Yolo Causeway, a Caltrans structure built in 1962. On the flat valley floor, small differences in floor and grade elevation matter, and a scan turns them into deviation and levelness maps rather than a handful of spot readings.

Contour Survey is a licensed California surveyor based east of Sacramento. Control is GNSS primary and total station secondary, held to 0.01 US survey feet relative to project control; we scan with a Trimble X9, check with a Trimble S3, and process in Trimble Business Center. Deliverables are registered, cleaned point clouds in E57, LAS, or RCP, scan-to-CAD drawings, and coded points your team can model from. See 3D laser scanning, as-built surveys, scanning in Sacramento, and our Davis surveying page.