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Industries · Urban planning & heritage

A measured record of what stands today.

Conservation buildings, shophouse facades and streetscapes captured as measurable records, before works, weather or time change them.

Heritage fabric is not reversible.

A conservation building carries detail that no drawing set fully records: settlement, previous repairs, ornament that was replaced once already. Once works begin, the pre-existing state is gone, and any dispute about what was there relies on memory and photographs.

Scanning captures the condition as it stands, at a known date, to a known tolerance. That record supports the conservation submission, the works themselves, and any question that arises afterwards about what was original.

What we do

What a heritage record captures.

Building records

Facades, interiors and ornament recorded as measurable geometry.

Streetscapes

Public realm and street elevations captured as continuous point clouds.

Measured drawings

Elevations and sections drafted from the scan for conservation submissions.

How it runs

Record before, verify after.

The common pattern is a capture before works begin and another on completion. The first is the condition record and the design basis; the second demonstrates what was done. Both come from the same method, so they are directly comparable rather than approximately similar.

About as-built documentation
What Volumet provides
  • Capture by our team, scoped to the fabric
  • Condition records and measured drawings
  • Point clouds and models in open formats
  • Scoped quote within one business day
What Volumet does not claim
  • Cadastral or boundary survey, which is the statutory preserve of a Registered Surveyor, and which we refer
  • PE-endorsed structural certification: we document condition, a Professional Engineer signs off adequacy
  • QP submission sign-off: we produce the drawings and models, your Qualified Person submits them
  • Guaranteed absolute survey-grade accuracy: around 1 cm relative at device level, and the real number depends on the whole chain
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Heritage capture, answered.

Can you capture without touching the building?
Yes, and that is the point of the method. Laser scanning and photogrammetry are non-contact. Nothing is fixed to the fabric, and no targets need to be attached to surfaces that should not be drilled or taped.
How much detail can you record on ornament?
Close-range terrestrial scanning resolves ornament and moulding profiles well. Where a specific element needs finer resolution than the general survey, we capture it separately at higher density rather than raising the density everywhere.
Is this enough for a conservation submission?
We produce the measured drawings and models. The submission itself is made by your Qualified Person, who takes responsibility for it. We supply the documentation they submit, not the sign-off.
Can you capture a street rather than a single building?
Yes. Streetscape capture combines ground-level scanning with aerial coverage where permitted, producing a continuous record of the street rather than a set of unrelated building surveys.

Record it while it stands.

Tell us the site, the access constraints and the deliverable. We come back within one business day with scope, method and a quote, or an honest no if we are not the right fit.

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