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Small City Governments & Municipalities

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For small city governments and municipalities, 3D scanning and modeling offer precise, cost-effective digital capture services to create comprehensive digital twins of your city's infrastructure, public spaces, and historical assets.

This technology empowers you to make informed decisions, optimize resource allocation, and foster greater community engagement.

How We Deliver Cost & Time Savings for Small City Governments & Municipalities

  • Obtain accurate, up-to-date digital maps and models of city infrastructure (roads, utilities, buildings) for streamlined maintenance, upgrades, and new development projects. Rapidly scanning a municipal water treatment plant or a section of road for maintenance planning can be completed in hours, providing precise as-built data that eliminates costly errors and reduces the need for repeated manual surveys. This can save tens of thousands of dollars in design rework and construction delays for even moderately sized projects.

  • Create detailed 3D models of critical public spaces and buildings to improve emergency response planning, training, and post-incident analysis. Mapping a city hall or local hospital in 3D provides first responders with exact floor plans and layouts, enabling faster navigation and strategic planning during an emergency. This can potentially save lives and millions of dollars in property damage by optimizing response times and resource deployment.

  • Secure permanent, non-contact digital records of local historical landmarks, statues, and sites, enabling their preservation, virtual accessibility, and promotion for tourism. Creating a 3D digital archive of a fragile town monument ensures its preservation even if the physical object is damaged, saving immeasurable future costs of attempted physical repair or irreplaceable loss of cultural knowledge. Developing a virtual tour of a historic district can attract thousands of visitors worldwide without the high costs of physical infrastructure or risk of damage to the site, generating new educational and outreach opportunities at a fraction of the cost of traditional exhibits.

  • Provide planners and developers with accurate 3D site data for better visualization, impact assessment, and public engagement during zoning and development reviews. For a new downtown development, 3D scanning the existing streetscape provides precise context for proposed designs, allowing for clearer impact assessments and reducing the time spent in review cycles by ensuring all stakeholders are working from accurate, shared data.

Real-World Applications

Accurate As-Built Documentation:

Rapidly capture existing conditions of city assets for renovation, retrofit, or facility management.

Comprehensive BIM Integration:

Generate accurate point clouds and 3D models for creating or updating BIM models of municipal buildings and infrastructure.

Public Safety & Forensic Support:

Quickly capture precise 3D models of crime or accident scenes, preserving crucial spatial relationships of evidence.

Cultural Heritage Preservation:

Create immutable 3D digital records of irreplaceable historical structures and monuments.

Urban Planning:

Utilize 3D models and point cloud classification for sustainable urban development, detailed site analysis, and scenario planning.