14 buildings unified
One coordinate system and one accuracy standard across the whole campus
Education · Melbourne, Australia
Registering fourteen campus buildings to one accuracy standard
A university estates team had scan data from six different survey contractors collected over four years, in five different formats, with no consistent coordinate system between any two buildings on campus.
Project facts
Scope, software and timeline at a glanceLocationMelbourne, Australia
SectorEducation
ScopePoint cloud registration, record modeling
Level of developmentLOD 300
Buildings14
SoftwareCyclone, Revit
DeliverablesRegistered clouds, record models, asset register
Delivery time2 summer phases
Project overview
Bringing fourteen buildings onto one accuracy standard
A university estates team had scan data from six different survey contractors collected over four years, in five different formats, with no consistent coordinate system between buildings.
We audited every data set, rejected three that fell outside acceptable tolerance and flagged them for rescan, then registered the remaining eleven to one shared site grid with a documented error value for each building, modeling all fourteen to a single estate template.
Work was phased across two summer access windows to avoid disrupting term time teaching and research activity.
This project was delivered through our point cloud registration service. See more education work on our industry page.
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Inputs and deliverables
What we received and what we handed back
A clear record of the data that came in and the files that went out.
Project inputs
- Scan data from 6 different survey contractors, in 5 different formats
- No shared coordinate system across any of the fourteen buildings
- University asset naming and classification convention
- Two summer access windows for on site work
Deliverables
- 14 buildings registered to one shared coordinate system
- Registration accuracy report for each building
- LOD 300 record models for all 14 buildings
- Estate wide asset register matched to the university FM system
- Space utilisation and room data export
Key outcomes
One coordinate system across the entire campus
3 mm average error
Verified against survey control on each building
72 hours per building
Average processing time from raw scan to a signed off registration report
Business impact
Estate wide capital planning now possible on one data set
Estates leadership can now compare condition and space data across the whole campus for the first time, supporting capital planning decisions that were previously made building by building on inconsistent, sometimes contradictory information.
Estate wide capital planning now possible on one data set
Removed dependency on six legacy survey formats
Asset register adopted directly into the university FM system
“For the first time our facilities team can compare data across buildings without wondering whose numbers to trust.”
RCR. ChenEstates Director, University
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