The British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) has ambitious plans to grow and update their six campuses throughout the Metro Vancouver area. To achieve these plans, the BCIT team plans to implement smart building practices which will help them manage costs and schedules, adhere to environmental regulations, and pursue their innovation and social impact goals.
To put this plan into action, BCIT needed comprehensive visual documentation of their existing facilities. But with 56 buildings and 3,000,000 square feet to document, it would be one of British Columbia’s largest-ever documentation projects.
Multivista rose to the challenge, bringing two decades of experience and a suite of advanced documentation solutions to the project.
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Educational institutions often have busy schedules, high building occupancy, and unique lab and lecture hall structures. When updating or expanding educational buildings, it’s valuable to have detailed documentation of existing assets in the form of plans, 3D models, and photographs in order to implement smart building practices. This documentation also allows for the optimization of building operations and preventative maintenance processes.
The main challenge with documenting BCIT’s campuses was scale. Due to the size of the project, providing all of the documentation BCIT needed in order to achieve their goals would require advanced reality capture technology, and keeping all that information organized and accessible would demand cloud-based solutions.
In addition, BCIT had a problem with outdated floor plans and asset information. As is often the case with large, long-standing institutions, BCIT has undergone many undocumented physical changes over the years.
BCIT also wanted to integrate their new 3D models and plans into their facilities management software, Archibus.
BCIT selected Multivista for the project due to our advanced service offerings and decades of experience with construction documentation. Our team was tasked with laser scanning 56 buildings across six campuses and creating 3D models and CAD plans of each structure.
Over the last two years, a team of 15 Multivista professionals (including 3D scanner experts, drone pilots, and an experienced operations team) has spent over 1000 hours capturing BCIT facilities using 360º cameras, Leica RTC360 laser scanners, and Phantom 4 RTK UAVs. This has resulted in over 40,000 images, terabytes of 3D point cloud data, and dozens of hours of UAV flight time.
Importantly, all of this captured data is hosted on and easily accessible via Multivista’s unique cloud-based online viewing platform, the Multivista Document Software (MDS).
MDS enables project stakeholders to view, navigate and extrapolate data directly from the captured information. Users can view 360º imagery, navigate and measure from point clouds, and analyze aerial images all from one integrated system.
And, thanks to the close collaboration that ensured we were capturing fit-to-purpose information, BCIT is also able to download 3D models and CAD plans from MDS for integration into their Archibus facilities management system.
When the project is complete, Multivista will have created a full digital twin for each of BCIT’s six campuses, enabling their architectural team to easily visualize and plan for future growth scenarios in both three-dimensional space and real-world dimensions.
BCIT selected Multivista for the project due to our advanced service offerings and decades of experience with construction documentation. Our team was tasked with laser scanning 56 buildings across six campuses and creating 3D models and CAD plans of each structure.
Over the last two years, a team of 15 Multivista professionals (including 3D scanner experts, drone pilots, and an experienced operations team) has spent over 1000 hours capturing BCIT facilities using 360º cameras, Leica RTC360 laser scanners, and Phantom 4 RTK UAVs. This has resulted in over 40,000 images, terabytes of 3D point cloud data, and dozens of hours of UAV flight time.
Importantly, all of this captured data is hosted on and easily accessible via Multivista’s unique cloud-based online viewing platform, the Multivista Document Software (MDS).
MDS enables project stakeholders to view, navigate and extrapolate data directly from the captured information. Users can view 360º imagery, navigate and measure from point clouds, and analyze aerial images all from one integrated system.
And, thanks to the close collaboration that ensured we were capturing fit-to-purpose information, BCIT is also able to download 3D models and CAD plans from MDS for integration into their Archibus facilities management system.
When the project is complete, Multivista will have created a full digital twin for each of BCIT’s six campuses, enabling their architectural team to easily visualize and plan for future growth scenarios in both three-dimensional space and real-world dimensions.
“For us, it’s a no-brainer to have an unbiased independent party creating a comprehensive photographic record of construction progress.”
“I would recommend this tool on every job and to every owner…”
“Thoroughly documenting the rough conditions of a finished space to show compliance allows us to give our client peace of mind and adhere to the demands of the project schedule. Multivista has been instrumental in this way by capturing the in-wall and above-ceiling in an organized fashion.”
“I would recommend Multivista to any PM, contractor or owner seeking to reduce project risks and save time and money on their construction projects.”
“I have had the pleasure of using Multivista’s services on two projects now and the experience just keeps getting better. Multivista’s photo documentation services provide me all of the as-built information and protection I need in a professional platform without tying up a member of my staff. I fully intend to use them on every project in the future.”
“Multivista’s platform is easy to use and allows us to solve issues quickly and efficiently. It provides you with the peace of mind to go through your process and get your building done. We can’t recommend Multivista enough.”
