SUCCESS CASE: CHI Engineering Services Leverages 3D Laser Scanning for Streamlined Analysis & Complete Field-to-Finish Workflow

With a dedication to providing unmatched engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services, CHI Engineering Services applies 35+ years of experience aimed at ensuring each completed project provides their clients with simplified operations and maintenance.  

However, CHI began noticing a negative trend in their projects that was making their own operation less-than-simple… and it was beginning to affect their commitment to their clients…

THE CHALLENGE:

CHI struggled with:

• Receiving incomplete documentation of existing conditions
• Wasting both time and costs due to slower traditional measurement tools
• Ending up with mistakes in design and too many in-field adjustments due to poor as built documentation

These constant and inevitable workflow hiccups had to be eliminated. CHI needed a solution to streamline their processes and help them elevate their competitive edge in the market.

THE USE CASE:

To best assess what solutions they should consider, CHI needed to evaluate the particulars of their current operations and needs:

COMPANY OVERVIEW:

• Location: Portsmouth, NH
• Industry: LNG, Natural Gas & LPG Industries
• Specialization: Engineering, Procurement & Construction (EPC) Management

TYPICAL APPLICATIONS:

CHI specializes in EPC for liquified natural gas, natural gas and liquified petroleum gas facilities, with their commonly needed measurement applications including:

• Construction verification (flatness / plumbness, FF/FL, Scan vs. BIM analysis, deflection / deformation analysis, structural integrity, clash analysis)
• Site scanning for facility coordination (facility layout & planning)
• Plant scanning for fabrication & asset management (Industrial facilities, as-built piping, structural & equipment modeling)
• Survey / civil deliverables (topo extraction, DTMs, geo-referencing, volume calculations)

NECESSARY SOLUTION BENEFITS:

To alleviate these challenges CHI faced, they were looking for a 3D laser scanning solution that provided the following:

• Speed
• Accuracy / data quality
• Ease-of-use
• Ruggedness (durability in harsh conditions)
• Portability
• Complete field-to-finish workflow (hardware PLUS software)

That is when they turned to 3D Laser Scanning technology to streamline the push of real world data into the digital world with precise accuracy – the FARO Focus Laser Scanner.

THE RESULTS:

Upon adopting the FARO Focus Laser Scanner CHI Engineering Services has reduced total project costs by 10-20% on average and has decreased the time required to document existing site conditions by approximately 50%.

HOW YOU CAN ACHIEVE THESE RESULTS:

FARO’s solutions can help you improve the speed, quality and safety of your architecture, engineering and construction projects and help achieve complete field-to-finish workflows.

With complete hardware and software solutions – such as the FARO Focus Laser Scanner and FARO PointSense – that integrate into your existing processes and software – such as AutoCAD^® and Revit^® – we engineer our solutions for AEC professionals. 

*This success case of CHI Engineering Services is based on an October 2017 survey of FARO Technologies, Inc. customers conducted by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.