| If you are planning on building a new building or | | | | copy. But viewing the data on a computer |
| rehabilitating an existing building, chances are that | | | | provides you with several data manipulation |
| you will need to contract with a surveying | | | | options that hard copy data does not. When you |
| company to ensure that your new or existing | | | | view the data electronically, a friendly user |
| building fulfills its design intent. If so, you will find | | | | interface allows you observe your building project |
| that you have two options when it comes to | | | | from a variety of vantage points, including: its |
| hiring a surveying provider: you can hire a | | | | aesthetic relationship to its surrounding area, its |
| company that uses traditional surveying methods | | | | structural integrity and its interior logistics in terms |
| or you can hire a company that offers 3D laser | | | | of egress paths. |
| imaging. Because laser imaging-also referred to as | | | | Companies that offer laser scanning services |
| laser scanning-is a relatively recent development in | | | | often offer their services nation wide, with some |
| the history of surveying, some companies feel | | | | even offering worldwide services. Because laser |
| that they are erring on the side of caution when | | | | scanning requires only light equipment and uses |
| they choose traditional surveying over laser | | | | the same principles in every scenario, offering |
| scanning. Nothing could be further from the truth. | | | | nation wide or worldwide scanning services is |
| Far from failing to offer the same quality as | | | | simply good business sense. But it benefits |
| traditional surveying methods, laser-scanning | | | | customers by offering a variety of contracting |
| offers three basic advantages over traditional | | | | options with companies that compete against |
| surveying: it provides more accurate results, it | | | | each other's rates on an extended basis. While |
| provides them in a shorter period of time and it | | | | new construction and building rehab are popular |
| costs less money. | | | | situation for the use of laser scanning, laser |
| Traditional surveying methods yield less than | | | | scanning companies typically provide a range of |
| precise data because their technology cannot | | | | scanning and surveying services that apply to a |
| gather spatial data as acutely as laser technology, | | | | variety of endeavors, including: engineering, |
| and anyone who has experienced the traditional | | | | telecommunications, mechanical, historical |
| surveying process knows that it can take weeks. | | | | preservation and the collection of accident scene |
| Laser scanning can yield precise data in as little as | | | | and crime scene evidence. But regardless of your |
| little as one surveying session, which drives down | | | | company's surveying needs, laser scanning offers |
| the price of the surveying process by requiring | | | | three advantages over traditional surveying |
| less involvement from the surveyor. Once laser | | | | methods that make it the superior choice: |
| scanning has been performed, the recorded data | | | | accurate results, timeliness and economy. |
| can be received both electronically and in hard | | | | |