3D Scanning in Livermore, CA

Two national laboratories sit on the east side of Livermore. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory was founded in 1952 by Ernest Lawrence and Edward Teller, and its main campus covers about one square mile, with its Site 300 roughly 15 miles to the southeast on about 7,000 acres. Sandia National Laboratories opened its California site next door in March 1956 to support what was then the University of California Radiation Laboratory. Buildings on campuses like these get renovated, re-equipped, and replaced on a long cycle, and the people doing that work need lab spaces, mechanical rooms, and utility corridors measured as they stand. That work runs under the laboratories' own security, badging, and escort rules. We scan inside whatever access arrangement and coordinate system the project sets, and we do not need to be on site any longer than the capture takes.

The valley's other industry is older. Concannon and Wente both date to 1883, and Wente is the oldest family-owned winery in the United States. Cresta Blanca's first vintage won a Grand Prix at the 1889 Paris Exposition, the first California wine to win an international competition. The Livermore Valley AVA was established in 1982 and now holds more than 50 wineries. Expanding a winery means fitting tanks, catwalks, barrel racks, and process piping into a production building that has been added to for decades, and a scan gives the designer clear heights, column lines, slab elevations, and existing equipment in one pass. The town itself is old. Livermore was platted as a railroad town in 1869 and incorporated in 1876, and its Carnegie library, opened in 1909, is on the National Register. Buildings of that age need measured facades, floors, and framing before any rehabilitation is designed.

Every job starts with control. We set primary control with GNSS, carry secondary control with a Trimble S3 total station, and tie each Trimble X9 setup into that network. Processing is in Trimble Business Center, in US survey feet, and control is 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, coded points, and a report stating the control basis, units, and accuracy achieved. New winery and industrial buildings can add construction verification of anchor bolts and steel. See 3D laser scanning, as-built surveys, scanning in Pleasanton, and our Livermore surveying page.