Capture a true-to-scale digital twin using the Matterport Pro3 LiDAR camera. Ideal for design and build, facilities management, project handover, and remote stakeholder collaboration, including workflows that feed into BIM. Often combined with office relocations and IT projects where an accurate as-built record reduces site visits.
Outputs available for project workflows: point cloud exports (E57/OBJ), 2D floor plans, and shareable browser links.
What you get
- Fast site capture with measurable, revisitable scans
- Better coordination without repeated site visits
- Useful for plant rooms, risers, and complex M&E spaces
- BIM and documentation friendly exports for design teams
- Easy sharing for contractors, tenants, and remote teams
3D Scan Your Environment
Why it matters for your projects
- True-to-scale visual record – verify dimensions, ceiling voids, M&E runs, and finishes without another site visit.
- Remote collaboration – designers, contractors, asset managers, and tenants view the same model, mark issues, and tag RFIs in context.
- Progress documentation – scan at each project milestone and compare stages side-by-side, reducing disputes and variation orders.
- Facilities & asset management – click-to-measure, tag equipment, and plan moves without interrupting operations.
- Marketing & training – immersive tours raise engagement for real-estate listings, retail roll-outs, or staff onboarding.
Design and Build 3D Scans
Our Matterport scanning service gives architects, engineers, and contractors a fast, accurate way to document site conditions and coordinate across every stage of the design and build process.
- Pre-construction site capture to document existing conditions before design or demolition begins
- Accurate floor area measurement for architectural planning and feasibility studies
- Reference for ceiling voids, M&E routing, and risers without needing intrusive access
- Supports clash detection when integrated with BIM models (E57/OBJ exports available)
- Reduces the need for repeated site visits by architects, engineers, and consultants
- Improves tender accuracy with up-to-date visual and dimensional site context
- Scans can be annotated for RFIs, markups, and handover documentation
- Revisitable digital twin useful throughout all project phases—from design to close-out
Need an accurate as-built record?
Matterport Pro3 capture for plant rooms, risers and complex M&E spaces — measure without another site visit
Mechanical Rooms & Facilities Management
Matterport scans provide a powerful tool for documenting complex spaces like plant rooms, risers, and service corridors. Facility teams and contractors gain a detailed, measurable record of all equipment and infrastructure — improving accuracy, safety, and efficiency in ongoing operations.
- Detailed visual record of M&E layouts for HVAC, electrical panels, pipework, and critical infrastructure
- Improves maintenance planning by allowing teams to locate and assess assets remotely
- Supports equipment tagging and documentation with embedded metadata, manuals, and service histories
- Reduces risk of error during shutdowns, upgrades, or emergency interventions
- Ideal for handover to FM teams with an accessible, revisitable digital twin
- Enhances space planning for retrofits, expansions, or compliance upgrades
- Enables remote troubleshooting and planning without repeated physical access
- Integrates with CAFM/CMMS systems to streamline asset management and lifecycle tracking
Export & Integration Features
Matterport scans aren’t just for visual reference — they provide precise data outputs that plug directly into your design, documentation, and facilities systems.
- Export to Revit, AutoCAD, or BIM tools using E57 or OBJ point cloud files
- Generate 2D floor plans and measurement reports for planning and quoting
- Use as-built conditions in design software to accelerate layout, clash detection, and coordination
- Tag and annotate assets with metadata, maintenance history, or user manuals
- Share digital twins via browser link with no special software required
- Create walkthroughs and highlight reels for client updates or project sign-off
- Archive progress scans at each phase for comparison and documentation
- Integrate with tools like Procore, Bluebeam, and SharePoint to centralise site information
Book a Matterport consultation
Ready to capture a Pro3 digital twin of your site, building or facility? Contact our team to discuss scope, scheduling and pricing — typical engagements run from a single floor through to multi-site portfolios across Hong Kong, China and Singapore.
Matterport and digital twin FAQs
What exactly is a Matterport digital twin?
It is a true-to-scale 3D capture of a real space that you can walk through in a browser, measure from, and return to whenever you need it. We capture with the Matterport Pro3 LiDAR camera, which produces dimensionally reliable output rather than a marketing flythrough. The practical difference from photographs is that a digital twin is measurable and revisitable — you can check a ceiling void or a rack clearance months later without arranging another site visit.
How long does a scan take?
It depends on the floor area, how complex the space is and how much access we get. A single floor is typically a matter of hours; plant rooms and service corridors take longer per square foot than open office space because there is more geometry and more equipment to capture. Scanning is non-intrusive and can usually run around normal operations, or out of hours where a space cannot be disturbed. Tell us the site and we will give you a realistic duration before you commit.
How accurate are the measurements?
The Pro3 uses LiDAR and produces output suitable for design coordination and facilities planning, which is why we export point clouds for use in BIM workflows. It is a reliable dimensional record rather than a substitute for a surveyor’s instrument where a formal setting-out survey is legally required. If your use case demands survey-grade tolerance for construction setting out, tell us at scoping and we will say plainly whether a scan is the right tool.
What files do we actually get?
Point cloud exports in E57 or OBJ for design software, 2D floor plans, measurement reports, and a shareable browser link that needs no special software to view. The exports are what let a scan feed into Revit, AutoCAD or your wider BIM workflow; the browser link is what makes it useful to everyone else on the project who does not have that software.
Do we need our own Matterport subscription to keep the model?
Hosting is what keeps a digital twin live and shareable, so it needs to sit somewhere with an active account. We will set out the hosting arrangement and what it costs to keep a model available before you commit, so there is no surprise at the point where the project closes and someone still wants access. Exported files such as point clouds and floor plans are yours regardless.
Can you scan an occupied or operational site?
Yes, and most of what we scan is occupied. Capture is non-intrusive and does not require shutting anything down, which is a large part of why it works well for plant rooms, risers and service corridors that are difficult to survey conventionally. Where a space is sensitive or access is restricted, we work to whatever the site rules require and schedule around them.
What about privacy and confidentiality?
A scan captures whatever is visible, including screens, whiteboards and documents left out — so we agree beforehand what should be cleared, excluded or blurred, and treat the resulting model with the same confidentiality as any other client material. For secure floors this is worth planning properly rather than deciding on the day. Sharing is by controlled link, so you decide who can open it.
How is this different from the virtual tours estate agents use?
Same underlying technology, entirely different purpose. Marketing tours are made to look attractive; what we produce is made to be worked from — measurable, exportable into design tools, and captured in the places that matter operationally, such as comms rooms and M&E spaces. The reason we offer it is that we already work in those spaces as a technology consultancy, so the scan feeds our design and handover output rather than sitting on its own.
Can a scan integrate with our facilities or asset management system?
Yes. Equipment can be tagged with metadata, manuals and service history inside the model, and the twin can support CAFM and CMMS workflows so asset records point at a visual location rather than a room name. For facilities teams inheriting a building, that turns handover documentation into something people actually open.
What does a scan cost?
It depends on floor area, the number of sites and the outputs you need, so we scope it rather than quote from a price list. Engagements run from a single floor through to multi-site portfolios across Hong Kong, Mainland China and Singapore. Talk to us with the site details and we will come back with a costed proposal.