Northwestern Mutual Life Building

History

The cornice of the Northwestern Mutual Life Building needed replacement.  The project included providing accurate as-built drawings (to a demanding schedule) of the entire cornice about the perimeter.  Collecting this data using traditional methods would have required weeks to complete, as well as the use of scaffolding or a swing stage.

Project Process

Our 3-D laser scanning technology captured much of the visible data from the sidewalk, approximately 150 ft below, with an accuracy of 1/4 inch at 150ft.  Once the data is compiled it was transformed into digital 2-D drawings.

Benefits 

Laser scanning documentation has the ability to provide additional data to vendors and designers as needed without having to return to the site. The scan is a snap shot in time of the existing conditions.  In the future old scans and new can be compared and combined to track the change a building has undergone.

Measured drawing of cornice detail with point cloud overlay. 
Northwestern Mutual Life Building - Milwaukee, WI.