Procon Consulting Uses Remote Capture

• 680,000 sq ft mapped in 1 week
• Fraction of laser scanning cost
• 5 weeks saved vs. laser scan

Procon Consulting needed accurate, current documentation of a 60-year-old, 680,000-square-foot warehouse and office building at the Denver Federal Center to support a pending Fire Life Safety renovation. The only records on hand were outdated "frankendrawings" that no longer reflected the building's actual conditions, and GSA had ruled out traditional laser scanning because of its cost and lengthy timeline.

Procon chose Reconstruct because its 360-degree camera and reality capture software could scan the entire facility and generate BIM-to-Scan drawings with sub-inch measurement accuracy, giving the team complete visibility into the space without the cost or schedule impact of laser scanning, and within a budget GSA could support.

Documenting a 60-year-old, 680,000-square-foot warehouse and office building at the Denver Federal Center posed a significant challenge for Procon Consulting. Existing drawings were outdated "frankendrawings" that had been altered so many times over the years that they no longer reflected the building's true conditions, leaving the team without a reliable baseline for planning the pending Fire Life Safety renovation.

GSA considered traditional laser scanning as an alternative, but the cost and time required to scan a facility of this size were prohibitive. Procon needed a way to capture accurate, measurable as-built conditions across the entire building quickly and affordably, without disrupting the project's budget or schedule.

Before turning to Reconstruct, Procon and GSA had no reliable way to document the current conditions of the Denver Federal Center's aging warehouse and office building. The only drawings available were outdated "frankendrawings" that had been patched together over the building's 60-year history and no longer matched what was actually on site.

The team had considered traditional laser scanning to capture accurate as-built conditions, but the associated equipment costs and lengthy timeline made it impractical for a project of this scale, leaving Procon without a fast, affordable way to get the documentation GSA needed for the pending renovation before work could move forward.

Using Reconstruct's reality capture technology, Procon Consulting delivered a 680,000-square-foot measurable reality model of the Denver Federal Center's warehouse and office building in just one week, replacing outdated "frankendrawings" with accurate, sub-inch precision documentation of the facility's true conditions.

Completing the capture with a 360-degree camera and Reconstruct's software let Procon avoid the cost and schedule impact of traditional laser scanning entirely, delivering the project at a fraction of what a laser scan would have cost while saving roughly five weeks compared to that traditional approach.

The resulting BIM-to-Scan drawings gave GSA and Procon's team a reliable, current baseline to plan the building's pending Fire Life Safety renovation with confidence, rather than working from documentation that no longer matched the building's actual conditions. As Steve DeVito, Director of Technology at Procon Consulting, put it, Reconstruct helped the team capture as-built conditions and monitor progress more productively than traditional construction progress photos.

Procon Consulting was established in 2000 and provides collaborative program and project management, construction, space planning, and real estate services on major, complex projects nationwide, including work for federal government clients like GSA.