3D Scanning in Oakland, CA

Oakland has more building types per square mile than anywhere else in the East Bay, and each of them asks the scanner a different question. Downtown office stock runs from 1920s towers to 1970s concrete frames, and the teams re-leasing, seismically upgrading, or studying residential conversion of those buildings need slab-to-slab heights, core and shaft locations, column grids that are not where the original plans say, and facade geometry. The warehouse and light-industrial stock across West and East Oakland is now full of logistics, food production, and fabrication tenants for whom clear height under the low steel, column spacing, and slab flatness decide whether racking, a mezzanine, or a piece of equipment fits at all. Institutional owners with schools, churches, and civic buildings scan for the same reason: nobody can find drawings that match.

The other half of Oakland scanning is horizontal. The Port's container terminals and wharves, the elevated I-880 and I-980 structures and the I-580 corridor above them, BART running in subway downtown and on aerial guideway through East Oakland, and the shoreline water and wastewater plants are all environments where a survey crew is exposed to traffic, cranes, or confined space for every measurement. We scan those from a control network tied to published benchmarks so the result is a coordinate product, not just a picture: clearance surveys under and over structures, structural as-builts of bents, girders, and bearings, and baseline epochs that a later scan can be differenced against. Where construction disturbs street monuments, Corner Records go to the Alameda County Surveyor.

Deliverables are the registered cloud in E57 or RCP, DWG and DXF plans, sections and elevations, Revit models, and surfaces or clearance diagrams for infrastructure work. See our infrastructure scanning, our Oakland as-built surveys, and our Oakland topographic surveys.