Existing Conditions
Existing Conditions to Precision Projects, Stop Building with Assumptions and Start with Facts
Get Existing Conditions Plans and Models from Millimeter-Accurate 3D Scanning for your project
Designing, renovating, or expanding a building without reliable existing conditions data introduces unnecessary risk. Outdated drawings, manual measurements, and assumptions lead directly to change orders, delays, and budget overruns. Ground Truth replaces uncertainty with verified reality capture, delivering precise As-Built plans and BIM models you can trust.
The Ground Truth Advantage
When your plans are wrong, everything goes wrong. Ground Truth gives architects, engineers, and construction teams verifiable, field-accurate data that aligns design intent with real-world conditions. Our clients consistently see measurable results:
- $100K+ average cost savings per large project by virtually eliminating late-stage rework
- 99.9% accuracy in As-Built data, ensuring alignment between design models and existing conditions
- 8X faster data capture compared to traditional measurement methods, accelerating design start dates
- 40% less time on site spent verifying conditions, freeing teams to focus on high-value design work
Accurate As-Built Plans and Models
Stop Building with Assumptions and Start with Facts
Traditional methods of documenting existing conditions are slow, expensive, and prone to error. Tape measures, hand sketches, and legacy drawings rarely reflect what actually exists in the field.
Inaccurate existing conditions data remains the number one cause of change orders, coordination conflicts, and cascading delays across AEC projects. As projects become more complex, modern BIM workflows demand precise, verifiable documentation that can support design, coordination, and construction without constant field corrections.
Ground Truth provides that foundation by capturing reality once and using it across every phase of your project.
How Ground Truth Provides the Foundation for Better Building
Ground Truth, Your Partner for Reality Capture
Modernize and Rebuild, Inaccurate or Outdated Existing Conditions Drawings
The challenge: Renovation and retrofit projects often begin with old blueprints that no longer reflect real-world conditions. Teams rely on manual verification, increasing the risk of design conflicts and costly field adjustments.
Our solution: Ground Truth uses high-definition 3D laser scanning to capture every visible condition, producing a verified point cloud and an accurate As-Built BIM model that serves as a true digital twin of the site.
The challenge for residential projects: Renovation and retrofit projects often begin with old blueprints that no longer reflect real-world residential existing conditions. Teams rely on manual verification to capture the current layout, significantly increasing the risk of design conflicts and costly field adjustments.
Our solution for residential existing conditions: Ground Truth uses high-definition 3D laser scanning to capture every visible residential existing condition, producing a verified point cloud and an accurate As-Built BIM model that serves as a true digital twin of the site, ensuring the design aligns perfectly with the home’s current state.
Slow, Manual Data Collection
The challenge: Teams spend days or weeks on site collecting dimensions by hand, delaying design kickoff and increasing labor costs.
Our solution: Non-contact 3D scanning captures a complete, measurable dataset of an entire structure in a fraction of the time. Projects move from site visit to design significantly faster, with no loss of accuracy.
Need for BIM-Ready As-Builts
The challenge: Standard 2D CAD drawings do not support modern BIM coordination, leading to friction between architects, engineers, and contractors.
Our solution: Ground Truth delivers clean, intelligent As-Built BIM models in Revit, Archicad, or SketchUp, created directly from scan data and ready for immediate integration into your workflow.
See Every Dollar Work
Project Planning and Verification
The challenge: Verifying construction progress or confirming that installed work matches the design model can be difficult, especially before irreversible steps like pouring concrete or closing walls.
Our solution: Reality capture allows precise progress verification and comparison against design intent, helping teams catch issues early, protect budgets, and maintain schedule control.
What to Expect
Working With Ground Truth
Project Scope Call
We discuss your project goals, required deliverables such as point clouds, As-Built BIM models, or 2D plans, and confirm timelines and accuracy requirements.
Site Visit and Scanning
Our team deploys advanced laser scanning equipment to capture the entire site quickly and efficiently, often in a single visit.
Data Processing and Modeling
Scan data is registered, validated, and modeled to your required Level of Detail, ensuring the final deliverables align with your project standards.
Final Delivery and Ongoing Support
We deliver precise, usable files and remain available to support evolving project needs as technology and workflows advance.
Case Study
Yacht Club Dock As-Built Documentation
Ground Truth delivered a complex As-Built BIM model for a live-operating facility, enabling the project team to resolve coordination challenges early and reduce planning time by eight weeks. Accurate scan-based documentation allowed designers and contractors to work from a single source of truth without disrupting ongoing operations.
Ready to Start Your Project with Confidence?
Call and tell us about your project, and let our team help you create a clear, reliable roadmap from existing conditions to a finished build.