3D Scanning in Moraga, CA

Moraga holds an unusual mix of building types for a town its size. The Saint Mary's College campus concentrates the kind of stock that rewards scanning most: chapels, halls, gymnasiums, and residence buildings spanning most of a century, where facility planners and architects routinely need accurate existing conditions for renewal projects and where original drawings are partial at best. The Rheem Valley commercial center and the town's civic and school buildings pose the same problem at smaller scale. Around them sit 1960s and 1970s ranch subdivisions on graded pads, where a scan captures the house, the pad, the walls, and the slope in a single pass. In every case the advantage is the same: millions of survey-grade points collected in one visit, rather than a measurement at a time on a building nobody can fully access twice.

The town's infrastructure is smaller than a freeway corridor but no less demanding. Moraga Way, Canyon Road, and Rheem Boulevard carry a long inventory of retaining walls, culverts, and creek crossings on ground that moves; the Lafayette-Moraga Regional Trail follows the former Sacramento Northern railroad right-of-way through the middle of town; and EBMUD watershed roads and facilities lie just beyond the ridge. We scan that class of asset tied to a survey control network so the deliverable supports clearance checks, structural as-builts, and repeat epochs for movement analysis. Given how well documented landslide activity is on Moraga's developed slopes, an archived baseline scan is often worth more than the drawing it produced. See infrastructure scanning and deformation monitoring.

Deliverables are registered point clouds in E57 or RCP, DWG/DXF plans, sections and elevations, Revit models at the agreed level of development, and contours or a DTM where terrain is part of the scope. Contra Costa County records and survey filings go through the County Surveyor and Recorder in Martinez. See also Moraga as-built surveys and Moraga topographic surveys.