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Multi-Storey Residential Building — Three Outputs, One Capture

16Floors
1Site visits
3Deliverable formats

The situation

Sixteen floors, one site visit, three completely different deliverables. A residential building's visualization, coordination, and massing-BIM teams each needed their own format from the same capture, and none of them wanted to pay for detail only another team would use.

The approach

On our side, the work split the same way it had to serve the client's three teams: a field crew captured the registered point cloud on site, an office team processed it into point cloud and RCS data, and a separate modeling team built the three deliverables from that — a decimated visualization mesh, a cleaned coordination surface, and a massing-level BIM model with dimension lines. This is the Need-LOD philosophy in its most literal form: one capture, three levels of detail, no accuracy lost between them because they all trace back to the same source data.

The outcome

Each team got exactly the format its workflow needed, from a single site visit — no second mobilization, no re-registration, no drift between the three deliverables.

A residential building shown as a raw colored point cloud, a monochrome mesh, and a finished massing BIM model, side by side
A residential building shown as a raw colored point cloud, a monochrome mesh, and a finished massing BIM model, side by side

Services used

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Questions about this project

Why process one capture three different ways instead of scanning three times?
Re-scanning for each team would have meant three separate site visits and three separate registrations, each with its own margin for drift — processing one registered point cloud three ways keeps every deliverable traceable back to the exact same accurate source.
Who actually handles the capture, the point cloud, and the modeling — one person or separate teams?
Separate stages: a field crew captures on site, an office team builds the registered point cloud and RCS data, and a dedicated modeling team produces the final deliverables — each stage specialized rather than one generalist doing all three.
Did any of the three teams get a lower-quality result because they shared a single capture?
No — each output (mesh, coordination surface, massing BIM) was processed to the tier that use case actually needed; sharing the capture affected cost and speed, not accuracy.
Can this one-capture, multiple-output approach work on a smaller building too?
Yes — the approach scales down as easily as up; even a single-building project benefits if more than one team needs a different format from it.
What happens if a fourth team needs a different format later?
The registered point cloud is retained, so a fourth output can typically be processed from the same original capture without remobilizing.

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