Laser technology and BIM: Relationship between the two in a Building project

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Laser technology and BIM Relationship between
the two in a Building project
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• I think there is hardly anything left to be
  invented when it comes to construction business.
  However, the laser technology is certainly the
  new entrant in the construction industry but it
  has already engulfed the building trends across
  the world.
• Laser is the acronym for light amplification by
  stimulated emission of the radiation. The BIM
  users are optimizing the laser technology to get
  the most out of it.

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What is laser technology and how is it related to
BIM?

• Laser technology is referred or known with
  various names such as point cloud technology
  or Scan to BIM. This technology is applied by the
  engineers mostly in the renovation projects. In
  the laser scanning process, laser beams are
  thrown or sent to an existing building to scan
  it.
• When these beams return back to the hardware they
  produce a set of information or data which is
  called a point cloud. A point cloud that is
  derived after using laser scanning techniques is
  then used by the engineers to extract a large
  number of information related to the scanned
  building.

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Point cloud is imported in Revit to convert it
into a 3D Model

• The use of BIM software Revit is crucial for
  converting the scanned data into 3D model. The
  Revit generated 3D model is full of concrete
  information related to the building.
• Now the engineers and the architects can extract
  various necessary drawings and plans from it like
  elevations and 2D CAD drawings etc. These can be
  used and referred by the engineers whenever
  needed.

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What are advantages to using laser technology in
construction?

• Well there is a long list of advantages of point
  cloud technology when it is used in construction.
  The first and most important among them is that
  the process of renovation has become quite easy.
  The time taken to scan the building is very less
  compared to the manual measurement process.
• In the olden times engineers used to visit the
  site and had to take the measurement from the
  scratch. This was a tiring work. But now with the
  employment of laser technique things have changed
  a lot. Since accurate and reliable data is easily
  available it can reduce the project cost to a
  large extent. 

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• Earlier during renovation building were
  demolished from anywhere without the knowing the
  exact fault points. But that is not the case now,
  since we already have the complete data with us
  in the form of a 3D model.
• So the relationship between laser technology and
  BIM is quite simple. BIM is making best use of
  the laser technology to enhance productivity and
  to reduce the project cost.

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