Redevelopment of a Mustard Factory

A project from Bouwsupport

The city—as a habitat and space for living—is undergoing a renaissance. People are looking for interesting properties. More often than not, old industrial buildings are renovated and turned into living areas. In this project, an old mustard factory was to be converted. The factory building with the shape of the letter U consists of several rooms over two floors. The rooms are filled with machines for production purposes and serve as storerooms and garages.

 

Very accurate views and layouts are required when it comes to redeveloping existing buildings.

For this project, up to date as-built plans were not available, making it necessary to create a digital model of the building. The task was to quickly deliver views and layouts—in the form of CAD plans—to the planning office. As a consequence, and with respect to cost efficiency, the client opted for 3D laser scanning technology.

30 laser scans were carried out, which took half a day. The building’s entire structure was finally available as a three-dimensional model. PointCab software was used to create layouts and views. Layouts and views were imported into the office’s CAD system as well as used and dimensioned by the engineers, which took about 40 hours. Because of the comparatively small effort, laser scanning technology was the ideal choice.

Initial situation: 

  • Existing building of an old mustard factory was to be redeveloped.
  • Up to date as-built documentation or other information were not available.

Goals:

  • Planning decisions (capital commitment) based upon real as-built documentations.
  • Data basis for preplanning, design planning, and final planning.
  • Visualization basis for creation of plans, outlines, and overviews.

Results:

  • Laser scanning of the site—1/2 day
  • Data preparation, analysis, and processing with PointCab—2 hours