Every renovation begins with a drawing that lies.
Walls move. Slabs sag. Forty years of undocumented alterations sit between the archive drawing and the building you are standing in. Design against that drawing and you are designing against fiction — and the building will tell you so, on site, at the most expensive possible moment.
Clashes found on site
A duct that will not fit. A beam nobody drew. Discovered by a contractor with a crew standing idle, priced as a variation, and paid for by you.
Material cut to the wrong number
Every element fabricated from an inaccurate dimension is either re-cut or thrown away. Waste is not an environmental line item here — it is your margin, in a skip.
The return visit that never ends
Tape measure, photograph, forgotten dimension, drive back. Manual survey does not fail all at once — it fails one missing measurement at a time.
Drag it. The measurement and the model are the same building.
On the left, what the scanner recorded. On the right, what we hand over. Drag the divider — nothing moves between them, because nothing was redrawn.
Same site, same viewpoint, same frame. The drawing on the right is extracted from the measurement on the left — not redrawn from it.
Four stages, from walk-through to model.
A single operator, one visit, no scaffold and no site shutdown. What used to be a fortnight of measuring is an afternoon of walking.
- 01 — Capture
Walk the building
Handheld SLAM LiDAR records the space continuously as the operator walks it. Drone photogrammetry covers roofs and façades that cannot be reached from the ground.
On site: hours, not weeks
- 02 — Register
Align and clean
Scans are registered into one coordinate system, georeferenced, and stripped of noise and passing people. You receive the deviation report, not just a promise.
Deliverable: E57 · RCP
- 03 — Model
Build the geometry
Revit geometry modelled against the cloud to the agreed level of development, using your family library and naming conventions rather than ours.
LOD 100 · 200 · 300 · 350
- 04 — Deliver
Hand it over
Native and open formats, drawings extracted, and a walkable model in your browser. Nothing is locked to software you do not own.
RVT · IFC · DWG · PDF
What actually lands in your inbox.
Agreed before we mobilise, itemised on the quote. No surprises about what “a scan” includes.
Registered point cloud
E57 · RCPThe unedited measured record of the building, colourised and ready to open in Recap, Cyclone or Rhino.
Revit model
RVTNative, parametric, built to your template and your family library. Walls, floors, structure, MEP as scoped.
openBIM export
IFC 4Software-neutral, so your consultants can work in ArchiCAD, Tekla or Solibri without a conversion argument.
Plans, sections, elevations
DWG · PDFExtracted from the model, not redrawn. Dimensioned, titled and issued at the scale you asked for.
Visualisation
Enscape · V-RayPhotoreal stills and walkthroughs off the as-built geometry — for planning submissions or for selling the scheme.
360° site record
PanoramaA navigable photographic record of the building as found, timestamped. Settles arguments about what was there before.
The numbers, before you ask for them.
Published rather than negotiated. If your project needs tighter tolerance than this, say so on the enquiry and we will quote a static scan instead.
| Parameter | Value | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Relative accuracy | ±6 mm | Typical, over a closed loop. Reported per project. |
| Point density | ≤ 5 mm | Spacing at 5 m range. Decimated on request for lighter files. |
| Daily coverage | 3,000 m² | Single operator, occupied building, no shutdown required. |
| Point cloud delivery | 48 h | From leaving site to registered, cleaned cloud in your hands. |
| Model delivery | 5–15 days | By area and level of development. Fixed on the quote, not estimated. |
| Level of development | 100 – 350 | LOD 200 suits most refurbishment. LOD 350 where fabrication follows. |
| Coordinate system | KRGJSH / WGS 84 | Or your project grid, if you have one established. |
| Archive retention | 10 years | Your raw data stays recoverable. Re-issue at any time. |
Instruments and software.
Capture hardware is only half of it. The value is in what happens between the point cloud and the model — and that is a modelling problem, not a scanning one.
Mobile mapping covers ground the tripod cannot reach — stairwells, plant rooms, corridors, whole floors in one continuous pass.
Handheld SLAM unit — walked, not tripod-mountedGrasshopper and Dynamo automate the repetitive part of scan-to-model, which is how a small studio delivers at the pace of a large one.
Capture through to model. Nothing loads until you press play.
Your project, in your browser.
Delivery should not mean a link to a 40 GB download and silence for three weeks. Every AURA project gets a private space where the model lives, the progress is visible, and your comments land directly with the person modelling.
See where it stands
Capture, registration, modelling, QA — with dates that update themselves, not a status email you have to ask for.
Walk the model
Point cloud and BIM geometry streamed to the browser. No Revit licence, no download, no plug-in — it opens on a phone in a site hut.
Pin an issue where you see it
Capture the view, drop a pin in 3D, write the note. It reaches our modeller with the camera position attached, so nobody has to ask which corner you meant.
Tell us about the building.
Approximate area and what you need the model for is enough to start. You will get a fixed price and a delivery date, not a rate card.
- Telephone
- +355 68 203 0018
- Studio
- Tirana, Albania
- Coverage
- Albania · Western Balkans · EU on request
- Response
- Within one working day
