3D Scanning in Pinole, CA

Most of Pinole's scannable infrastructure is linear. Interstate 80 runs the full length of the city with interchanges at Appian Way and Pinole Valley Road, the Union Pacific line runs along the shoreline between the town and San Pablo Bay, and Pinole Creek passes beneath the old town in culverts and street crossings before reaching the bay. Layered over that are the buildings: Fernandez Avenue and San Pablo Avenue storefronts in the old town core, schools and municipal facilities, and the retail buildings along the freeway corridor. Engineers rehabilitating overcrossings, agencies planning work near the rail corridor, public-works staff dealing with drainage structures, and architects reworking old town commercial space all start from the same need for measured existing conditions.

For structures we scan on an observed control network. Monuments are set and measured with GNSS and total station, every Trimble scan position is registered to that network, and the residuals are reported, which is what makes vertical clearance numbers, abutment and bent as-builts, and epoch-to-epoch comparisons stand up. The practical gain on a highway or rail structure is that the field time is short and the coverage is total: millions of points come off each setup from the shoulder or from beneath the structure, so a clearance envelope, a girder soffit surface, or a bearing detail is extracted later at the desk rather than by arranging a second closure. On buildings the same instrument documents a whole storefront, its party walls, and its irregular floors in a single visit.

Deliverables include the registered point cloud in E57 or RCP, DWG or DXF scan-to-CAD plans, sections, and elevations, Revit models at LOD 200 or 300, and clearance and surface reports on a stated datum. See our infrastructure scanning for structures, Pinole as-built surveys for buildings, and Pinole topographic surveys for site and terrain data.