3D measured building surveys, scanned to the millimetre

A survey that records the exact size and shape of a building, inside or out. We laser scan every room or elevation, join the scans into one 3D point cloud and draw the plans and elevations from it, so every wall, opening, step and out-of-square corner is where it really is.

Hand measurements miss things: walls that aren't square, floors that aren't level, a chimney breast that leans. A scan captures all of it in one visit, and if a designer needs a dimension later that nobody thought to take, it's already in the point cloud.

A registered point cloud (E57, RCP or LAS) and scaled floor plans and elevations as PDF and DWG. We can also provide a 360° walkthrough from the scan positions. Tell us what your designer or architect works in and we match it.

Most rooms and whole houses are surveyed in a single visit, at a time that suits you. Drawings follow in three to five working days.

It is accurate enough to design from, with walls and openings to within a few millimetres. Stone and quartz worktops are normally still templated by the fabricator after the units are fitted, and we'd always recommend that.

Yes. We scan the rear or side elevations, eaves, rainwater goods, drains and the ground levels around the house, which gives your architect accurate existing drawings for planning and building regulations.

A measured building survey records the size and shape of a building; a RICS building survey reports on its condition. The measured survey gives plans, elevations and a point cloud that a designer works from. A RICS Level 2 or Level 3 survey is a surveyor's assessment of defects, usually before you buy. They answer different questions, and one does not replace the other.

Walls, openings and levels are captured to within a few millimetres. Our Trimble X9 is specified at 2 mm range accuracy and 2.3 mm 3D point accuracy at 10 m, and inside a house most surfaces are much closer than that. The point cloud also records what a tape misses: walls that bow, rooms out of square and floors that step between rooms.

Our standard deliverables are scaled 2D plans and elevations in PDF and DWG, plus the registered point cloud. The point cloud is supplied in RCP and E57, which link straight into Revit, so your team can model directly from it. If you need a Revit or IFC model produced for you, tell us when you enquire and we will confirm whether it can be quoted.

Neither strictly requires one, but both need accurate drawings of the existing building. Planning applications include existing plans and elevations, and building regulations drawings depend on real floor levels, eaves heights and wall positions. Most architects either measure the house themselves or ask for a measured survey; a laser scan gives them both inside and out in one visit.

No. Furnished rooms are fine for kitchens, extensions and most floor plans, because the scanner captures the walls, openings and ceilings around the furniture. It can only measure what it can see, so if you need every wall surface, such as for fitted joinery, a tidy or empty room gives a more complete result. Moving clutter away from walls and windows helps.

Yes. Send the registered point cloud in E57, RCP, LAS or a similar format and tell us which plans, elevations or sections you need, and we draw them to the same standard as our own surveys. We check the scan coverage first, because rooms or faces the scanner never saw can't be drawn accurately.