3D industrial plants & plant models

For whom this service is particularly relevant

3D as-built models for industrial plants are used in particular where complex operating sites are planned, expanded or modernized.

Typical clients are

• Industrial companies and production facilities
• Operators of large operating sites
• Planning offices for industrial and plant construction
• General planners
• Real estate and facility managers

All parties involved benefit from a common, digital inventory on which planning, operation and future developments can be based.

Typical projects

Digital industrial plant models are used in particular for IA plants and technical infrastructures that have grown over many years. They create a precise basis for reliably planning and coordinating future conversions, extensions or technical adaptations.

Typical projects include

• Production halls and factory sites
• Technical centers
• Energy and supply infrastructures
• Logistics and warehouse locations
• Complex building structures with technical infrastructure

A precise model helps to reliably capture existing structures and spatial relationships, especially for such facilities.

Initial situation for industrial stocks

Industrial plants often develop over many years. Buildings are extended, systems replaced or new areas added.

This often results in situations such as

• incomplete or outdated as-built plans as a basis for future planning
• Different planning statuses from different project phases
• missing or unclear geometric information about buildings and facilities
• structures that have grown over the years and are difficult to fully understand from existing documents

A digital as-built model brings this information together and provides a complete and consistent representation of the existing structure as it exists on site.

Benefits for planning and operation

Above all, a precise 3D as-built model creates transparency for complex systems and building structures.

This results in advantages such as

• Clear understanding of existing building structures
• Better planning of conversions and extensions
• Coordinated cooperation between planning and operation
• Reliable basis for future projects

In addition, a digital model can also be used for other applications, for example for

• Space analysis and site development
• facility management
• Safety and operational planning
• Long-term documentation of facilities and buildings

This creates a digital basis that remains valuable for both planning and operation.

VDE has been involved in digital building surveying and the modeling of complex existing structures for over fifteen years.

Our way of working makes it possible to efficiently record even large industrial plants and extensive operating sites and convert them into structured models.

This includes, among other things

• precise recording of factories, production facilities and technical infrastructures using laser scanning
• Structured modeling of complex industrial facilities for planning offices
• efficient scan-to-BIM workflows for conversions, extensions and technical adjustments
• Projects in industrial plants and technical facilities throughout Switzerland

This creates a reliable digital inventory basis on which industrial sites can be safely planned, expanded and further developed.