Each scan station sees the room from one place, in its own coordinates. Rings on the floor, people walking through, reflections in the glass: raw data carries all of it.
Stations are joined through overlap and targets, then tied to site control. Noise, people and reflections are removed before anyone models from it.
The cloud is split by level and zone, then classified point by point: structure, architecture and services. Modellers work one system at a time, against the points that belong to it.
Slabs, walls, columns, beams and services modelled against the cloud, on your templates, to your BEP and LOD. Delivered in your Revit version.
Every point is compared with the model. Shade shows distance; yellow flags anything outside tolerance. Set the tolerance and watch the map change.
The checked model is issued with the drawings generated from it, the registered cloud and the deviation report, in your formats, your Revit version and your CDE.
Scan to BIM turns a 3D laser scan of an existing building into a Building Information Modelling (BIM) model. AIM United captures the site with terrestrial, mobile and drone LiDAR, registers the point cloud and models it in Revit at LOD 200 to 500, with a deviation report for each element. We deliver scan to BIM in Saudi Arabia, the UAE and the GCC.
Retrofits, fit-outs and heritage work all start from the same question: what is actually there? Most teams find out on site, after the design is done.
Years of undocumented changes. You find them when the new duct meets an old beam.
Outsourced models arrive on the wrong coordinates, or modelled from reflections. Your coordinators fix them before anyone can design.
"Millimetre accuracy" describes the scanner, not the model. You need to know how far each wall, slab and pipe sits from what was measured.
Hospitals, heritage fabric and live plant are captured around operations, often at night.
of all construction rework in 2020 was caused by bad data.Source: Autodesk and FMI, Harnessing the Data Advantage in Construction, 2021
Drag a station, or focus one and use the arrow keys.Drag a station to move it. Coverage updates as walls block the beam. Each station must see another, or the registration chain breaks.
Planning radius 15 m. Field time assumes about four minutes per setup, including the move. On a real job we plan stations from drawings and a walk-round, then confirm density and overlap on site.
Turn the room in 3D. The cloud and the model share one camera, so the same column, beam or duct lines up on both sides from any angle. Drag the divider, change the tolerance and see which elements pass. The same numbers go into the deviation report we deliver.
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Take one service or all of them. Files arrive in your formats, your Revit version and your CDE.
Static setups planned for coverage, overlap and registration. Coloured scans, tied to site control.
Walk-through capture for large floors, corridors, car parks and plant rooms, checked against control points.
Target and cloud-to-cloud registration, noise and people removed, split by level and zone.
Architecture, structure and MEP modelled against the cloud, on your templates and to your BEP.
Plans, sections, elevations, reflected ceiling plans and MEP layouts, generated from the model on your title blocks.
Model against cloud, or design against as-built, per element, against the tolerance you set.
Occupied hospitals, historic fabric and live plant. Phased or night capture, high-detail ornament, façade orthophotos.
Rescan during works and compare with the model to track progress and change over time.
For scanning firms: we model from your clouds under NDA, delivered in your name.
A perimeter beam-to-column moment connection with a composite slab edge. Step through the levels and turn it round: the same element, modelled for design, coordination, fabrication and handover. Switch the discipline to see the architecture, mechanical and electrical work in the same bay, or all of it in the federated model.
End plate, column web stiffeners, fin plate, deck profile, edge trim and reserved bolt zones.
Levels follow the BIMForum LOD definitions. LOD 500 means field-verified against site, not more detail.
Generic elements at approximate size and position. For space planning and early studies.
Specific elements at measured size, position and orientation. For design and coordination.
Connections, supports and fixings. For MEP and structural retrofit, and fabrication.
Field-verified as-built, checked against the scan with a deviation report. For facilities and handover.
Laser-scanning and survey projects, from Jeddah and Riyadh to AlUla, Najran and Cairo
Scanned across four floors of Crystal Towers, Riyadh, for an MEP and construction review
Ground control points over 12 km² of mountain terrain at Al Hussam, with up to 1,600 m of relief
Validated as-built model from scan for the Bank AlJazira headquarters in Jeddah
On government-funded projects, EXPRO's National Manual for Project Management requires design data and drawings to come from 3D models, a BIM Manager on large projects and COBie data in IFC. Giga-projects set their own BIM requirements in their EIRs and contracts.Source: EXPRO, Project Automation Requirements and Deliverables Guideline (EPM-KE0-GL-000020), 2021
The value of the Diriyah giga-project in Riyadh, where heritage fabric and new build meet. Existing conditions have to be measured before they are designed around.Source: Knight Frank, Saudi Arabia Giga Projects, via The National, Oct 2025
Station plan, site control, then terrestrial and mobile scanning around your operations.
Registration, clean-up and scan-to-BIM to your BEP, templates and LOD matrix.
Our own tools generate sheet sets and schedules, and run the deviation check on every element.
Files in your CDE, in your Revit version, on your title blocks, with the report alongside.
Rescans compared with the model keep it true through works and into facilities management.
Scan to BIM turns a laser scan of an existing building into a BIM model. The scan records millions of measured points; we model walls, slabs, structure and services against them. Teams use it for retrofits, fit-outs, extensions, heritage work and facilities records, whenever design has to start from what is really there.
We plan scan stations, capture the site with terrestrial or mobile scanners, and register the stations into one cloud tied to site control. We clean it, model it in Revit to your template and LOD, check every element against the cloud, and deliver RVT, IFC, drawings and a deviation report.
Scanner accuracy is only part of it. What matters is how far the finished model sits from the measured building. We agree a tolerance per element category before we start, register to site control, and report the deviation of every element in millimetres, so you can see exactly where the model stands.
Price depends on floor area, access, the disciplines modelled and the LOD. A plant room at LOD 400 costs more per square metre than an office floor at LOD 300. Send us the area, the LOD and the drawings you have, and we will return a fixed price and programme. A one-floor pilot is the easiest start.
Site capture is usually days, not weeks; the modelling takes longer. Time depends on area, disciplines, LOD and access windows such as night shifts in hospitals. We give a programme with each quote and can deliver floor by floor, so your design team starts before the whole building is done.
Yes. Ducts, pipes, cable trays, equipment and supports are modelled from the cloud as native Revit MEP elements, with systems assigned. Anything hidden above ceilings or in shafts needs access for scanning, and we flag what could not be seen rather than guess it.
We scan it or model it from your cloud, and send the deviation report with it. Then you decide.