3D Scanning in Fairfield, CA

Fairfield was laid out in 1856 by Robert H. Waterman, a clipper ship captain from Fairfield, Connecticut, and today it is the Solano County seat. The Old Solano Courthouse at 580 Texas Street is the clearest example of what downtown buildings go through. The Beaux-Arts building went up in 1911, served as the courthouse until the Hall of Justice opened in 1970, held county offices until the Solano County Government Center was built in 2005, then sat empty until renovations began in 2013. It reopened in 2014 with civil courtrooms. A building with that many lives has walls, floors, and ceilings that no single drawing set describes, and the same is true of the older commercial buildings along Texas Street. A scan records the facade, interior, and floor levels in one visit, without touching historic material.

Three miles east of downtown is Travis Air Force Base. It opened in 1942 as Fairfield-Suisun Army Air Base and was renamed in 1951 for Brigadier General Robert F. Travis. Its host unit, the 60th Air Mobility Wing, is the largest wing in Air Mobility Command, flying C-5, C-17, and KC-46 aircraft. The last KC-10 left in September 2024. The base also holds David Grant USAF Medical Center, whose current building opened in 1988 with about 808,475 net square feet. Hangars, maintenance shops, and a hospital that size are classic scanning subjects: large volumes, dense overhead systems, and tight access windows. Work on base runs through the base's own contracting and access rules, and we work inside them. Industry has its own needs. Jelly Belly makes its jelly beans in Fairfield, and Anheuser-Busch, whose brewery here opened in 1976, closed the plant in early 2026. Plants like these need clear heights, column grids, and slab deviation and levelness maps before equipment changes or reuse.

Every job starts with control: primary GNSS control, secondary control carried with a Trimble S3 total station, and each Trimble X9 setup tied to that network. Processing is done in Trimble Business Center, in US survey feet, with control held to 0.01 US survey feet relative to project control. You receive a registered, cleaned point cloud (E57, LAS, or RCP), scan-to-CAD plans, sections, elevations, 3D linework, and coded points, plus a report stating the control basis, units, and accuracy achieved. For new steel, see construction verification. We are based in Lotus in El Dorado County and also scan in Vacaville and Benicia. See 3D laser scanning, as-built surveys, and our Fairfield surveying page.