Brooklyn Borough Hall – Existing Conditions Showcases Brooklyn’s Oldest Public Building with 3D Laser and Drone Technology
A designated New York City landmark built in 1846-51, Brooklyn Borough Hall, the original City Hall, is one of the most significant government buildings in Brooklyn and is the heart and soul of Brooklyn’s Civic Center.
Existing Conditions performed an architectural survey of the façade, rotunda and courtroom of the building utilizing technologically advanced laser scans and drones demonstrating the power of the technology to produce accurate building measurements through reality capture and building documentation. Essentially, they were able to generate a digital version of the built environment in and around the building.
The company’s small and lightweight laser scanning equipment gathered real-time measurements and precise building information from the site in mere minutes.
Collected data and visualizations allowed the company to create as-built drawings from point clouds that provided a detailed understanding of the building as actually constructed versus how the building was designed.
In reality, as very few buildings are perfect manifestations of their original construction documents, field data was imported into drafting programs like Revit and AutoCad to generate detailed floor plans, roof plans, exterior elevations, reflected ceiling plans and MEP plans. The multiple types of construction-grade surveying equipment employed by Existing Conditions were non-disruptive and posed no threat to any visitors, artwork or the building itself.
About Existing Conditions: Founded in 1997, Existing Conditions was created to deliver high-quality documentation more accurately, efficiently and cost effectively than anyone else in the market. They have stayed true to their founding principles and continue to excel at leveraging reality capture technologies to deliver the most comprehensive building documentation.
Over the past 23 years, EC has measured and documented an estimated 200 million square feet of space for architects, engineers, building owners and real estate professionals and served clients and projects across the entire United States.
