Bringing the Past into the Future: As-built Modelling of Heritage Buildings

CWIC’s technical and skilled demonstrator team (Matt Drummond and Brandon Roberts) have been busy scanning and modelling the oldest building in the UWTSD estate, Charles Robert Cockerell’s St David’s College, dating from 1822-27 located in UWTSD’s Lampeter campus.

By scanning the building in its entirety with our terrestrial laser scanner, an as-built model can be created which can then be used to create a Digital Twin of the building which will enable the universities estates team to manage the building in more effective way.

Data for the measured survey was captured using a Leica RTC360 terrestrial laser scanner over the course of several days, 582 individual scans were captured, producing a raw point cloud of approximately 2 billion points. From this point cloud the building was meticulously modelled in Revit by Brandon Roberts to create an as-built model of the entire building.

For the learners at the School of Architecture, Constructions and the Environment at UWTSD the project has been an invaluable demonstration of the power of high precision laser scanning and the creation of as-built models for managing and maintaining heritage buildings and large estates. Using the as-built model in conjunction with Revizto, the universities estates team are able to utilise the model in an innovative way to identify, schedule and record proactive maintenance work in a far more efficient and effective way.

We love these kinds of projects that really allow us to show off the capabilities of our equipment and the skills of our team. Being able to provide our UWTSD learners with access to innovative technologies and methods is a core part of our mission at CWIC.

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