Industrial Plants & Refineries
Scan-to-BIM and asset mapping for plants, refineries, and complex industrial facilities.
Plants and refineries are dense, complex, and safety-critical. MapSphere captures them with high-resolution terrestrial and mobile laser scanning and turns the point cloud into accurate as-built BIM and asset registers.
The result is a reliable digital twin that de-risks retrofits, shutdowns, and maintenance planning.
Relevant services
Use cases
What this sector demands
Dense, congested geometry
Pipework, structures, and equipment overlap tightly. High-density scanning resolves the detail clash-free modeling needs.
Safety and access
Scanning reduces time in hazardous areas and captures inaccessible high-level structure remotely.
Outdated drawings
Existing documentation rarely matches reality; scan-to-BIM rebuilds an accurate, current as-built.
What you receive
- As-built BIM
- Point clouds
- Clash reports
- Asset registers
How we deliver it
We register multi-station scans into one coordinate system, classify and clean the cloud, then model to your specified LOD with clash detection across disciplines.
Deliverables include as-built BIM, classified point clouds, clash reports, and asset registers tied to the model.
Services we apply here
Industrial Plants & Refineries — common questions
01Why scan-to-BIM for an existing plant?
Existing drawings rarely reflect decades of modifications. A laser scan captures the plant as it actually is today, and the resulting BIM becomes a reliable basis for retrofit, clash-free design, and maintenance.
02How do you handle congested pipework?
High-density terrestrial scanning resolves overlapping pipe, structure, and equipment geometry, and we model to the LOD needed for accurate clash detection.
03What do the deliverables include?
Registered/classified point clouds, as-built BIM at your specified LOD, inter-discipline clash reports, and asset registers linked to the model.
Planning a industrial plants & refineries project?
Tell us about your site and objectives — we'll scope the right survey approach, accuracy, and deliverables.