3D Scanning in Orinda, CA

Scanning in Orinda usually starts because a project needs the house and the ground it stands on captured together. A remodel here is rarely a building-only problem: the structure sits on a graded pad, a driveway climbs to it, a retaining wall holds the slope above or below, and a geotechnical engineer will want all of it in one dataset. A Trimble terrestrial laser scanner records the residence, the walls with top and bottom elevations, the driveway profile, and the slope face in the same visit and the same coordinate frame, so the architect, the structural engineer, and the geologist are not each measuring their own version of the site. The small commercial cores at Orinda Village and around Theatre Square, and the schools and churches scattered through the hills, bring the same requirement at a different scale.

The town also sits astride real infrastructure. Highway 24 and the Caldecott Tunnel portals define Orinda's western edge, BART runs in the highway median and disappears into the Berkeley Hills Tunnel, and EBMUD's Orinda water treatment plant and the reservoir lands around it occupy the watershed north and east of town. Add the county's long inventory of hillside retaining walls, culverts, and headwalls on winding roads, and there is steady work for control-network-tied scanning: clearance surveys beneath structures and inside portals, structural as-builts of walls and abutments, and repeat epochs that quantify movement instead of describing it. Our infrastructure scanning page covers that scope, and slow ground movement in the Orinda Formation is exactly the case our deformation monitoring work is built for.

Every project delivers a registered point cloud in E57 or RCP, DWG/DXF drawings, and a Revit model where the design team works in BIM, plus contours and a DTM when the terrain is part of the question. Records tie through the Contra Costa County Surveyor and Recorder in Martinez. See also Orinda as-built surveys and Orinda topographic surveys.