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January 16, 2014

Local firm has big plans for a new service that combines BIM and lasers to survey spaces

  • Glapin Milphrey wants to open offices in 17 western U.S. cities this year.
  • By LUCY BODILLY
    Special to the Journal

    Photo courtesy of Glapin Milphrey [enlarge]
    Metrology technician David Johnson sets up survey equipment to measure the interior spaces of a project at Virginia Mason Hospital in Seattle.

    Building Information Modeling wowed the AEC community as a clash detection tool. Now a local company is pushing the technology further by adding the most advanced surveying equipment available.


     
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