3D Scanning in San Pablo, CA

San Pablo is compact, flat, dense, and unusually institutional for its size. Contra Costa College sits at its northern edge, the civic center and public schools carry steady modernization work, and older commercial buildings line San Pablo Avenue, which is State Route 123 through the city. Interstate 80 and the Richmond Parkway run along its margins, and Wildcat and San Pablo Creeks cross the city in channels, box culverts, and street crossings on their way to the bay. The people who order scan data here are mostly facilities and capital-projects staff, the architects and engineers working for them, and the public-works engineers responsible for the drainage and roadway structures underneath it all.

Institutional buildings are a good fit for scanning because the schedule is unforgiving. A campus or school building has to be documented between terms or over a break, and a Trimble terrestrial laser scanner captures a full building, inside and out, in a single mobilization at millions of points per setup. Every corridor width, ceiling plenum, structural bay, and roof penetration is in the cloud, so the mechanical engineer's question three months later is answered at the desk instead of by another site visit through a locked building. For the harder infrastructure, we work from an observed control network and tie every scan position to it, which is what supports culvert and channel as-builts, vertical clearance surveys under structures, and repeat epochs differenced against a baseline where settlement or deflection is the concern.

Deliverables include the registered point cloud in E57 or RCP, scan-to-CAD plans, sections, elevations, and reflected ceiling plans in DWG or DXF, Revit models at LOD 200 or 300, and coordinates on a stated datum. See our infrastructure scanning for control-tied structural work, San Pablo as-built surveys for buildings, and San Pablo topographic surveys for site grades.