Plants, sites & installations
Industrial Facilities
Working plants rarely match their drawings. SEC documents industrial facilities as they actually are — scanned, surveyed and structured into data for engineering, maintenance and expansion work.
Sector challenges
The gap between plant and paper
Drawings decades out of date
Modifications accumulated over years of operation that no drawing set ever caught up with.
Brownfield modification risk
New equipment and piping designed into spaces whose true geometry is unknown.
Congested underground services
Decades of buried cabling and piping beneath the plant, much of it unrecorded.
Shutdown time pressure
Shutdown and access windows are limited — capture is planned around them.
Project lifecycle
Documenting the working facility
01
Facility control
A plant-wide survey control framework every later capture ties into.
- Control Networks & Benchmarks
- CORS Network & RTK Services
02
Reality capture
Terrestrial laser scanning of structures, piping and equipment — measurable geometry captured without contact.
- LiDAR & Reality Capture
- Terrestrial Laser Scanning
03
Site & yard survey
Topographic capture of yards, roads and laydown areas for logistics and expansion planning.
- Topographic Survey
- UAV & Aerial Survey
04
Buried services detection
Underground utility survey within the facility boundary, before any intrusive work.
05
Geotechnical investigation
Ground data for new foundations, heavy equipment bases and expansion areas.
06
3D documentation & modelling
Point clouds processed into as-built models and drawings for engineering design.
- 3D Documentation
07
Asset data management
Facility geometry and asset attributes structured in GIS for maintenance and planning.
- GIS & Geospatial Solutions
- Asset Mapping
Technology approach
Dense data, disciplined delivery
Scanning around operations
Capture planned around plant activity and access constraints — measurement fits the facility, not the reverse.
One registered point cloud
Scan stations registered onto facility control produce a single coherent model, not islands of data.
Deliverables per discipline
The same capture serves piping, civil and layout teams — sections, models and drawings extracted per need.
Field equipment
Radiodetection
Radiodetection RD8200
A cable and pipe locator used within subsurface utility survey scopes.
What you receive
The facility, in data
- Registered point clouds of plant areas
- As-built models and 2D extractions
- Facility topographic and yard plans
- In-fence buried utility plans
- Geotechnical reports for expansions
- GIS asset layers and web views
Design the next modification on real geometry.
Tell us about the facility and the decision ahead — SEC will scope the capture and documentation to match it.