3D Scanning in Richmond, CA

Richmond holds a wider range of scannable infrastructure than any other city in West Contra Costa County. The Richmond-San Rafael Bridge carries Interstate 580 across the bay from the city's shoreline; the I-80 and I-580 interchange and the Richmond Parkway move freight between the freeways and the waterfront; the Port of Richmond works cargo across city-owned terminals and wharves; a refinery and heavy-industrial corridor lines the shoreline; and the BART Richmond line ends at an intermodal station shared with Amtrak. The people who need scan data here are correspondingly varied: bridge and structural engineers, terminal and marine engineers, process and mechanical engineers, transit and public-works agencies, and the developers reworking shipyard-era industrial buildings and Point Richmond commercial stock.

High-accuracy infrastructure scanning is a different discipline from scanning a house, and we run it that way. Before the first setup we observe a control network with GNSS and total station, then register every scan position to it and report the residuals, so the cloud carries real coordinates on a stated datum. From that we produce vertical clearance surveys and clearance envelopes, structural as-builts of bents, girders, bearings, and connections, deck and wharf surface models, tank shell verticality and out-of-round checks, and piping and steel geometry accurate enough to fabricate tie-ins against. Because the Trimble scanner is non-contact and collects millions of points from each position, we reach geometry that would otherwise take rope access or scaffolding, and a dimension nobody thought to ask for is pulled from the archived cloud rather than from a second lane closure. Where movement is the question, repeat epochs are differenced against the baseline scan.

Deliverables include E57 or RCP point clouds, DWG or DXF scan-to-CAD, Revit models, surface and clearance reports, and stamped survey products where a licensed deliverable is required. See our infrastructure scanning and deformation monitoring services, or for buildings, Richmond as-built surveys.