I'm currently working on an indoor project, a detailed survey of a 4-floor building with about 100 rooms. The building has been used as a bank office for years, now it's used by the art school, the department of music and drama. The survey will be used by architects to adapt the layout of some rooms and all dimensions of the rooms will be put in some software system that controls the heating and ventilating of the building.
I haven't done this type of work for years, but is was the right time, we had our first cold wave last week with temps around -8°C (or 18°F) and about 10 cm of snow.
The square in the center is the safe, inner wall is 80 cm, with an impressive steel door 40 cm. The door was blocked by wooden blocks which were drilled into the floor. Safety reasons I presume, the unlock system is not active anymore.
I started at the outside, then the basement and so up to the roof. I Used tape and thumb tacks for my station points on the inside. The other tools used we otherwise don't use so often.
I prefered the little prism instead of the reflectorless for the inner corners and the sides of the concrete columns. Had some trouble with reflections in the windows.
It was fun to have live piano and sax solo's and being in the front row or enjoying the rehearsals of a 'comedia del arte' piece. I can assure you these kids (and teachers) have a lot of fun during their classes.
Some more unusual setups.
Next week will be out in the elements again ...
Chr
Is the flashlight for optical plummet visibility? I assume the instrument has a laser plummet?
I could see working for Architects modeling and mapping building interiors although I've never done it.
I started out working for Civil Engineers, then Park Rangers (can't write citations if you don't know where the Park boundary is) and now Foresters (whose tree is it) but never an R-K-TEK (real Architect's license plate).
The S6 doesn't have a laser plummet. Why? I have absolutely no idea.
I do a lot of this type of work lately. I have gotten to where I easily prefer architectural surveys over other construction work. Boundaries are still my favorite, though.
Absolutely fascinating Christ !
Cheers
Derek
Were there any thoughts about using a scanner to do the inside work?
Ryan,
I have no experience with scanning, I did see a presentation of the Trimble VX and the software to process scan and images.
I don't know about the inside, would have thought for the facades on the outside maybe.
The 2 cad drawings were what we had to start with and had to be checked, we found differences up to 50 cm. If we had to do the facades from scratch we would have hired someone with a scanner.
For the inside, I don't know how much time it would take it to scan a 100 rooms, some of them with multiple setups. How do you tie everything together, some rooms are really small. And hwo long will it take to process everything and to make decent linework of it?
chr.