Locations3D Laser Scanning in New York, NY
In New York the building is almost always older than the drawings, occupied while you work, and accessible for a narrower window than anyone would like. Those three constraints shape how a survey has to be run here more than the technology does. The service itself is the same existing conditions survey we run everywhere else.
What we typically survey here
- Pre-war building stock where no reliable drawing set exists at all
- Occupied office floors surveyed outside business hours
- Landmarked facades and interiors requiring documentation before alteration
- Mechanical rooms and risers in buildings that have been modified repeatedly, where scan to BIM at LOD 300 earns its cost
Working around access
Most of our New York capture happens in evenings and on weekends, because that is when a floor is empty enough to scan without people in every frame. We plan setups against the freight elevator schedule, not against the floor plan — on a tight site that is what actually determines how much gets captured in a shift. Scheduling in Austin is a different problem: heat rather than access.
Landmarked buildings
Where a facade or interior is protected, the survey is often the deliverable rather than a step toward one. A registered point cloud is a defensible record of the condition on a given date, which is a different requirement from producing drawings to build against. Both are priced per square foot, and the bands are on the pricing page.