3D Scanning in Rodeo, CA

Rodeo's waterfront is industrial. A refinery and its associated marine terminal occupy the shoreline north of the old town, the Union Pacific line runs between the plant and San Pablo Bay, Interstate 80 passes above on the inland side, and the community's own district facilities sit on the flat ground near the water. Inland of all that is the 1890s downtown grid and the postwar tracts behind it. Scanning demand in Rodeo therefore splits cleanly: process, mechanical, and structural engineers working on plant and terminal geometry, agency engineers on highway and rail structures, and owners and architects documenting older buildings.

Industrial scanning is largely about avoiding assumptions. A revamp, a tie-in, or a new skid has to land in space already occupied by pipe, steel, cable tray, and equipment, and the drawings on file are usually a generation behind the plant. A control-tied Trimble scan makes the point cloud the coordinate framework for the design: new steel and piping are modeled directly against measured geometry, clashes are found before fabrication rather than during a shutdown, and tie-in dimensions are measured rather than estimated. Because the scanner is non-contact and works from grade and from platforms, high geometry is reached without scaffolding or rope access, and a single setup returns millions of points, so the walkdown that used to take days of tape and photographs happens in hours. For tanks and wharf structures we add shell verticality and out-of-round checks and repeat epochs differenced against a baseline where settlement is the concern.

Deliverables include registered E57 or RCP clouds, DWG or DXF scan-to-CAD, 3D models for clash detection, and clearance and surface reports on a stated datum. See our infrastructure scanning and deformation monitoring, or for buildings, Rodeo as-built surveys and Rodeo topographic surveys.