3D Scanning in Elk Grove, CA

Elk Grove incorporated in 2000 and had grown to 176,124 residents by the 2020 census. It looks like a new suburb from Interstate 5 and Highway 99, but its scanning work splits three ways. The oldest is Old Town. The Elk Grove Historic District along Elk Grove Boulevard, School, Gage, and Grove streets has been on the National Register since 1988, and its buildings date from 1875 to 1949 in Late Victorian, Craftsman, and revival styles. Storefront rehabilitation, additions, and seismic or accessibility upgrades on those buildings start with an accurate record of facades, floor elevations, and framing, and a scan gets all of it in one visit without touching historic fabric.

The newest is industrial. Near Grant Line Road, Waterman Road, and Highway 99, the City's Grant Line industrial annexation area totals 557 acres. Its revised plan calls for 143 acres of light industrial and 211 acres of heavy industrial land, part of it in the Deer Creek and Cosumnes River floodplain and next to the Union Pacific line. New industrial buildings on that kind of ground need site topography before design, then construction verification during it. We check anchor bolts and steel to 1/8 inch from the scan, take total station check shots on any bolt group near tolerance, and provide slab deviation and levelness maps before and after the pour. The third is institutional. Elk Grove Unified is the largest school district in Northern California, with about 69 schools across 320 square miles. Modernization projects there need existing-conditions plans of classroom buildings that have been added to for decades, and scanning during breaks keeps disruption low.

Control comes first: primary GNSS control, secondary Trimble S3 total-station control, and every Trimble X9 scan tied to that network, processed in Trimble Business Center in US survey feet. Control is held to 0.01 US survey feet relative to project control, and tighter verification is available when a job needs it. Deliverables are a registered, cleaned point cloud in E57, LAS, or RCP, plus scan-to-CAD plans, sections, elevations, 3D linework, coded points, and a report stating the control basis and accuracy achieved. See 3D laser scanning, as-built surveys, and our Elk Grove surveying page.