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Laser Scanning
by: Ocean Van
Laser Scanning and its Applications in Concrete Building Construction
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eality capture and laser scanning have been a hot topic in the last couple years in the AEC industry. Some are familiar with this technology while some are still hesitant with this new and complex solution. In this article, I hope to shed some light on what laser scanning technology is and share some applications that are relevant to the structural discipline through an example project that I recently worked on. My hope is after reading this article, you are inspired to find ways to apply this tool to your daily work.
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WHAT IS REALITY CAPTURE & LASER SCANNING? Reality capture itself refers to technologies which can be used to record an object, building, or site and produce 3D data (Swenson 2017). Up until the incorporation of reality capture technologies for the documentation of built structures, recording techniques have generally involved the use of hand tools, such as tapes and levels, with machinery such as theodolites (total station) to record distances, areas, and angles of structures. These methods are time consuming and introduce human error in calculations or measurements (Swenson 2017). October 2020
