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BIM & Scan® was founded by Stephen Kelly more than 10 years ago. It is part of a larger group of companies that are under the Headcount banner.
Headcount Solutions is one of the leading recruitment consultancies in Ireland with a focus on the engineering, life sciences, and construction sectors.
MMA Consulting Engineers is a company that provides integrated mechanical and electrical engineering solutions to companies in nine specific industries across the globe. Bim and Scan® is headed up by chief scientist Dr. Shawn O’Keefe, and O’Keeffe and his team have developed a toolkit for openBIM standards that help companies to measure point clouds and open standards in a cloud based environment.
Four Reasons to choose BIM & Scan®:
1. We are a group of world renowned scientists, software developers, and engineering subject matter experts (SMEs) that specialize in the development of BIM systems and processes.
2. We have recently received the buildingSMART International Technology Solution 2024 Award. (Industry has vetted, endorsed, and validated our solution over many years time.)
3. We have several publication and patents for the technologies we deploy on projects and sell to the market.
4. Our applications, tools, and processes are built on open standards to assure they pass the test of time.
BIM&Scan Ltd. was born.
Dr. Shawn O’Keeffe invented the BIM & Scan® AutoCorr™ technology, and in September 2024 the BIM & Scan® AutoCorr™ technology was granted its patent.
BIM&Scan Ltd. demonstrated that the AutoCorr™ technology could be used on every type of built environment construction project and bring real value! (Buildings, Tunnels, Waterways, Infrastructure, Telecommunications, Roads, etc.)
BIM&Scan Ltd. won the buildingSMART International Technology Solution 2024 Award.
These applications have saved me a lot of time, especially with complex projects like oil and gas, and power and utility sectors, due to their ability to handle detailed data efficiently. Their support for openBIM standards, seamless integration with BIM systems, accurate data generation, and user-friendly interfaces have significantly enhanced productivity and facilitated collaboration in an open, collaborative work environment.
As a contractor we are scanning our projects more often, laser scanning technology is easily available nowadays. Where in the past point clouds where for specialist, they become common for project teams. We’ve used BIM & Scan AutoCorr on a few projects to check point cloud versus BIM. With help of AutoCorr, the differences between both les where visible within seconds, instead of hours searching for the deviations in the construction versus the IFC design models. AutoCorr delivers us coloured point clouds with deviations that are coloured red, and we can combine the automatic open standard output les from AutoCorr into our IFC les in our common IFC viewers. Due to this simple concept users can stay in the software they are familiar with. This makes adoption of this new technology pretty easy for the whole project team instead of specialists.
The use of Bim and Scan technology helps creating an Identical Digital Twin. Model-data from different designers and from different stages in the lifecycle of a building, is validated against the IFC coordination models with the help of open standard E57 scandata. It helps designers and stakeholders, in a virtual world where the digital twin is a representation of the actual building with actual assets to be managed. Open standards IFC, E57, and BCF are key to this development and needed for collaboration with stakeholders. An automatic output of BIM & Scan AutoCorr is the open standard BCF, which makes it possible to collect issues from different tools and gather them to transfer to a specific designer. The use of BCF in this way is a must in collaboration with others.
BIM & Scan AutoCorr was created to address problems when mapping open standard point cloud data with IFC formatted BIM objects. The developers of this product have used their expertise in the most demanding industrial facility settings to provide an efficient tool based on solid research. While I am not an expert in this field, it does appear that the ability to modulate error rates while mapping objects and mapping to curved surfaces are significant innovations in this field.
Combining point clouds with Building Information Models (BIM) has great signicance to enable construction digitalisation. To date, many works and solutions have focused on Scan-to-BIM, but a growing and critical area of interest is Scan-vs- BIM, to support construction progress and quality control, generation of as-built BIM, as well as asset monitoring. BIM & Scan AutoCorr is, to my knowledge, a unique Scan-vs-BIM solution by the fact that (1) it harnesses cloud technology; and (2) does it using open standards only (E57 for point clouds, and IFC and BCF for BIM information). The use of BCF to record (and communicate) deviations and subsequently how a BIM model should be adjusted to reect as-built/as-is conditions is particularly interesting. BIM & Scan AutoCorr is a great platform upon which numerous applications could be conceived in a vendor-agnostic way, to promote industry-wide collaboration.
Leap3D uses AutoCorr to compare point clouds and IFC models. We use it to compare our point clouds with models that have been created in the past using old drawings. Our client likes to know what the differences are between the model once created and the current reality. We specifically like using this software because it does not only show the difference between the model and the pointcloud but it also shows the difference between the pointcloud and the model. If there are points that haven’t been modelled, it will ‘light up’. That is very useful. The software also enables a tolerance setting we can use nding the differences which makes it easy to use for different purposes (from very accurate to just a quick overview). We also like the software because the support of Bim&Scan is very helpful. When we have questions, their help is fast and accurate.