3D Scanning in Rancho Cordova, CA

Rancho Cordova only became a city in 2003, but its buildings are much older and more mixed than that suggests. Folsom Boulevard follows the old road miners took from Sacramento toward the foothills, and way-station buildings from that era still stand, among them the 1911 Mills Station building. The Gold Line light rail runs the same corridor. Highway 50 carries the city's office and business-park buildings, and when one of them is re-planned for a new tenant, a floor plate is re-stacked, or a building is studied for a change of use, the design team needs measured core, shaft, column, and ceiling conditions instead of drawings from a previous fit-out. The Barrel District is a different kind of interior: brewery, distillery, and meadery tenants whose tanks and process piping have to fit between existing columns and under existing structure.

The biggest hook is just south of the city at Mather. The former Mather Air Force Base closed in 1993, and its land was redeveloped into the Mather Commerce Center, the Sacramento VA Medical Center, Mather Regional Park, and Sacramento Mather Airport, a cargo-focused airport with an 11,300-foot runway. The County markets a southside Tradeport site there for air cargo, logistics, manufacturing, and warehouse use. That means two kinds of scanning. Base-era buildings being reused need existing-conditions capture because their original records rarely match what is there now. New industrial buildings need construction verification of anchor bolts and steel, checked to 1/8 inch from the scan with total station check shots on any bolt group near tolerance. Floors can be mapped for deviation and levelness. East of the city, the County's roughly 8,000-acre Aerojet Special Planning Area adds more former industrial land to the mix.

Our control comes first: primary GNSS control, secondary control carried with a Trimble S3, and every Trimble X9 scan tied to that network. Control is held to 0.01 US survey feet relative to project control, and the report states the control basis and the accuracy achieved. Deliverables are a registered, cleaned point cloud in E57, LAS, or RCP, plus scan-to-CAD plans, sections, elevations, 3D linework, and coded points. Rancho Cordova sits on Highway 50 between our foothill base and downtown Sacramento, so field days and return visits are easy to schedule. See 3D laser scanning, as-built surveys, and our Rancho Cordova surveying page.