3D Laser Scanning — Canberra

To design, or to measure?

RZ POINT CLOUD SCAN

Architects excel at designing houses, not measuring them. RZ Scan's 3D laser scan takes the measuring, and the return trips, off your team's shoulders.

One site visit: every wall, every junction, every departure from square — the details that matter when you're designing around what already exists — captured with laser precision, freeing up your time for the work you enjoy doing.

What we deliver is more than plans and sections; it's a complete 3D reality capture you can confidently return to through design, documentation, and construction.

1 scan
All we need on site
0
Return visits required
±6mm
Scanning accuracy
The problem

Manual measure-ups
are pulling your
team off the work
that matters.

Two people. Two to three hours on site. Then more time at the desk resolving dimensions that don’t quite agree — before a single design decision has been made. The cost of that shows up later: in the fee, in the programme, or in what gets missed on site.

01
A resourcing problem
Every hour a graduate or senior designer spends measuring a house is an hour not spent on design, or documentation. A manual measure-up on a typical A&A house ties up two people for half a day — before design has begun. That’s time coming off your project’s design budget before a single wall has been considered.
02
The reconciliation problem
Manual dimensions never perfectly add up. Someone experienced makes an educated guess. If that guess is wrong, the error propagates silently through the design until a builder finds it on site — where it becomes expensive, potentially a variation on your build contract, not just a line in the drawing.
03
The return visit
A missed ceiling height. A forgotten junction detail. A stair geometry that wasn’t quite right. Return visits are common, disruptive to the project programme, and require scheduling around the homeowner all over again. Every one of those pushes your completion date, and it’s usually your week that gets rearranged to fix it.
CZ POINT CLOUD SCAN
What we deliver

The complete
existing conditions record.

Fast, clean, and BIM-ready.

Residential
A&A Scan
Full interior and exterior capture of single dwellings. Ideal for extension, renovation, and heritage adaptation projects. Single storey through to complex two-storey homes.
.RCP / .E57
Commercial
Fitout Scan
Tenancy and floor-plate capture for commercial refurbishment and fitout projects. Delivered in formats compatible with Revit and ArchiCAD workflows.
.RCP / .E57
Heritage
Documentation
Detailed facade and interior capture of heritage-listed and character buildings. Non-invasive, high-accuracy scanning of surfaces no tape measure can safely reach.
.RCP / .E57 + 360°
The technology

Leica BLK360 —
precision
in a single visit.

The Leica BLK360 is the industry-standard scanner for architectural as-built capture. In one site visit, it captures a complete spherical scan of the building — every room, wall, ceiling and floor junction, and external façade — to ±6mm accuracy. Multiple scan positions are registered together into a single, unified point cloud of the entire site: a millimetre-accurate 3D record you can walk through, measure, and reference at any stage of a project.

Delivered ready to work withThe point cloud is delivered as .RCP and .E57 files — open, industry-standard formats that load straight into Revit or ArchiCAD. No conversion, no cleanup. Cut plans at any height or sections at any angle, and trace directly over the point cloud to build an accurate BIM model — all in 3D, from the same file you started with.

Panorama imagery on KuulaFor heritage recordings or any project where a walkthrough adds value, the BLK360's panoramic imagery can be hosted as an interactive virtual tour on Kuula — a shareable way to walk clients through existing conditions remotely, or as reference for heritage report.

About

Operated by
an Architectural
Technologist.

RZ Scan is not a generic scanning operator. The business is founded and run by an Architectural Technologist with extensive building design experience — someone who's felt the frustration of on-site measure, understands what a point cloud needs to deliver, how architects use it, and where the critical details are in a renovation.

  • Architectural Technologist with extensive building design experience
  • Familiar with Revit documentation workflows
  • Understands A&A project constraints, approval process, and construction tolerances
  • Canberra-based — local knowledge, fast response, no mobilisation delays
Why it matters

The scanner
is only half
the picture.

A point cloud is only as useful as the person who captures it. An operator who doesn’t understand buildings will miss the wall junction that matters, skip the ceiling step that changes everything, or fail to scan the roofline detail the heritage planner will ask about.

When RZ Scan attends your site, the person holding the scanner knows what your drawings need to show. Coverage decisions are made with your design process in mind — not just the equipment’s capabilities.

That’s the difference between data and useful data.

How it works

From enquiry to
delivery, in four steps.

01
Submit a brief
Send us the project address, building type, and approximate floor area. We’ll confirm a fixed price within 24 hours.
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02
Confirm & book
Sign the service agreement, and we’ll lock in a date with you and the homeowner or site contact.
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We scan on site
A single site visit. Every interior space and exterior facade captured with the Leica BLK360. No disruption, no damage, no return visits.
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Receive your files
Your registered .RCP or .E57 point cloud files, delivered as soon as they’re ready. Load straight into Revit/ArchiCAD and begin.

Ready to work with
hassle-free site capture?

Our baseline site capture starts at $1,500 (with typical residential A&A projects landing between $1,800 and $3,000).

Send us your project details and we’ll respond with a fixed price within 24 hours. No obligations, no site visit required to quote.

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