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DN Warehouse Storage Area, Cluj — LOD 300 Scan to BIM for Automation Design

LOD 300Detail delivered
Cluj, RomaniaLocation

The situation

DN, in Cluj, Romania, needed an accurate LOD 300 BIM model of a warehouse storage building. It was the baseline an automation contractor would design a storage system against, so every clearance and structural dimension had to be real, not assumed from the original drawings.

The approach

The empty warehouse was captured with our standard Leica Total Station and FARO Focus workflow before the automation design work began, registering the full structural steel frame — columns, roof trusses, purlins — into a single point cloud. We modeled the structure to LOD 300 from there: precise enough for the automation contractor to coordinate equipment layout and clearances directly against it.

The outcome

The automation design team worked from a model that matched the building as actually built, not the original structural drawings. That removed the risk of a clearance conflict turning up only after equipment installation had started.

A FARO laser scanner set up inside the empty DN warehouse in Cluj, ahead of automation equipment installation
A FARO laser scanner set up inside the empty DN warehouse in Cluj, ahead of automation equipment installation
Isometric LOD 300 BIM model of the DN warehouse's structural steel — columns, roof trusses, and purlins
Isometric LOD 300 BIM model of the DN warehouse's structural steel — columns, roof trusses, and purlins
Interior BIM view of the roof truss structure and skylights, modeled from the registered point cloud
Interior BIM view of the roof truss structure and skylights, modeled from the registered point cloud
BIM elevation view of the warehouse with structural dimensions annotated
BIM elevation view of the warehouse with structural dimensions annotated
Exterior BIM render of the completed warehouse massing model
Exterior BIM render of the completed warehouse massing model
Exterior photo of the DN facility in Cluj, Romania, with grain storage silos alongside the warehouse
Exterior photo of the DN facility in Cluj, Romania, with grain storage silos alongside the warehouse

Services used

Scan to BIM →Industrial Plant Scan to BIM →Romania →

Questions about this project

Why did the automation contractor need a BIM model instead of just the original structural drawings?
Original drawings rarely match a building exactly once it's actually constructed. A storage automation system needs real clearances, not nominal ones, so the model was built from a fresh scan rather than the as-designed drawings.
Why LOD 300 specifically?
LOD 300, our coordination-grade tier, gives geometry precise enough to plan equipment layout and check clashes against — more than early massing needs, without the added time of a full fabrication-grade pass.
Was the warehouse empty during the scan, or in use?
Captured while empty, ahead of the automation equipment installation — the ideal window for a clean, unobstructed scan of the full structure.
What did the model actually cover — just the structure, or the whole building?
The structural frame: columns, roof trusses, and purlins, since that's what the automation design needed to coordinate against. Scope can extend further where a project needs it.
Can this same model be reused later if the warehouse is modified?
Yes — it stays a valid as-built reference for future work in the same space, the same Need-LOD principle behind every project we deliver.

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