Question 1

Can you as-built a historic adobe or masonry building?

Accepted Answer

Yes, and these are the buildings the method is worth most on. Monterey's adobes have thick, irregular walls that vary in thickness along their own length, which is more than a tape alone can practically describe. The scan records the wall faces as built and we confirm the critical dimensions by hand, which is what a historic review needs and what the project engineer will want to work from.

Question 2

Can you fly a drone near the airport or over the harbour?

Accepted Answer

Much of the city sits in controlled airspace for Monterey Regional Airport, so a flight there needs an authorization before it happens rather than a decision on the day. We check the airspace when we schedule, file for authorization where it is required, and fly under Part 107. If a site cannot be flown we say so up front and capture it from the ground instead.

Question 3

What do you deliver for a historic review submittal?

Accepted Answer

Measured existing plans, elevations and sections, with the features the review actually turns on drawn at the size they are rather than at the size they are assumed to be. Where the building has been altered over the years, the set shows what is there now and we note where it departs from the recorded drawings.

Question 4

Do you scan commercial tenant improvements?

Accepted Answer

Regularly. Retail and restaurant spaces on Cannery Row, Alvarado Street and Lighthouse Avenue almost never match the landlord's drawings, and the gap is usually found after the lease is signed. A scan takes a few hours on site, records the shell, the existing services and the real clearances, and gives your designer something to lay a fit-out against.

Question 5

What do we actually receive?

Accepted Answer

Measured drawings as PDF and the working CAD file, the 3D model where the scope includes one, and the raw point cloud as an add-on if you want the record kept. Everything lands in a client portal, so your team pulls the current files rather than hunting through email. If you are modelling in Revit or ArchiCAD we can hand over the cloud in a format that links straight in.

LiDAR Scanning and As-Builts in Monterey

01Can you as-built a historic adobe or masonry building?

02Can you fly a drone near the airport or over the harbour?

03What do you deliver for a historic review submittal?

04Do you scan commercial tenant improvements?

05What do we actually receive?