As-Built 3D Survey — New Build, Bridle Path, Toronto
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Drag the divider to compare the captured building with the as-built BIM model, and drag the view to turn it. Client viewers add each deliverable on its own, notes, section cuts and zoom.
Project Overview
A new building in the Bridle Path, Toronto, captured in July 2026 while the structure was still exposed and reconstructed as a single measurable 3D model you can explore in the browser above. Drone photogrammetry and LiDAR were fused into one continuous mesh covering a 27.4 × 22.4 × 12.1 m envelope. The delivered mesh runs to 1.98 million triangles; the version embedded above is a 989 K web build of it — still enough resolution to read structural framing, slab edges, opening positions, and roof penetrations directly off the model.
From Scan to BIM
The project produced three deliverables, in this order. The photogrammetry reconstruction is the version that reads instantly to anyone, technical or not. The LiDAR survey — 1.54 billion measured points across an 80 m site — is the layer everything dimensional is derived from. The Revit as-built model built from that scan is what actually lands in the design team's hands, alongside floor plans and elevations in DWG.
The viewer above puts the captured building and the BIM model either side of a divider you can drag across the structure. Being able to move between them in the same window is the point — you can see what the model was measured against instead of taking it on trust. The three deliverables were registered to each other for this view by matching their walls, so treat the overlay as a visual comparison; dimensional checks are made against the registered point cloud. The client’s own viewer, on a private link, adds each deliverable on its own tab, numbered notes, section cuts, a zoom bar, shareable view links and image export.
Why Capture As-Built
Buildings are rarely built exactly as drawn. Openings shift, levels move, services land a few centimetres off where the drawing set put them. Once the finishes go on, those deviations disappear from view — and every drawing produced afterwards quietly inherits them. Capturing the structure while it is still exposed records what was actually built, at the one point in the programme when it is still visible.
Capture & Processing
Photogrammetry supplies the colour and texture that make the model legible to everyone on the project, not just the technical team; LiDAR supplies the geometric backbone that keeps it dimensionally trustworthy. Fusing the two produces a model that is accurate enough to measure against and clear enough to present. Processing then reduces the survey-grade result into web-deliverable form, so the same capture that feeds the drawing set also works as a shared reference anyone can open.
What We Delivered
The as-built Revit model, floor plans and elevations as DWG, the registered point cloud, and the full-resolution textured mesh — plus the compressed browser-native versions embedded on this page. The design team works against measured reality rather than design intent, and anyone with a link can orbit the building, switch to a plan view, and check a condition for themselves — without a site visit, a CAD licence, or a question routed through the one person who has both.
