Toward Applicable Scan-to-BIM and Scan-to-floorplan: An End-to-end Experiment
, Senior Vice President, Technical University of Munich
Digital models of the built environment improve efficiency and transparency for buildings over their whole life cycle. The underlying method is called building information modeling (BIM). For new buildings, those models are created in the planning phase, which is today a common industry practice. For already-existing facilities, documentation is often sparse. To leverage the benefits of BIM for those, models need to be created according to the actual current conditions of the built environment. To make the solution practical and economically viable, research in the field of scan-to-BIM seeks to automate the process from captured as-is conditions in form of point clouds to semantically rich 3D models that can be used for any planning or operations task at hand. We'll showcase an end-to-end working solution for this task, along with an alternative output of a smart floor plan that will interest operators who are still bound to traditional processes.