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Case Study

McGraw-Hill Building

New York, NY

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Overview

Full interior and exterior reality capture of the landmark McGraw-Hill Building in midtown Manhattan. QRC documented existing conditions across multiple floors to support an adaptive-reuse design effort led by the project's architecture team.

The Challenge

What This Project Demanded

The McGraw-Hill Building is a designated New York City landmark with limited original documentation available. The design team needed verified as-built data for a renovation scope that spanned several floors of the Art Deco tower — including complex ceiling geometries, MEP routing, and facade details that could not be reliably measured by hand.

Impact

Why It Mattered

The verified scan data gave the design team a reliable spatial baseline for a complex landmark renovation. Instead of working from assumptions about existing conditions, architects could begin schematic design with confidence that their base plans reflected the actual building — reducing the risk of field conflicts and costly design revisions downstream.

Specs
Industry
Architects & Designers
Location
New York, NY
Project Type
Historic Renovation
Services
Mobile LiDAR Scanning · BIM Modeling (Scan-to-BIM) · Architectural Drawings & Existing Conditions
Architects & Designers New York, NY Historic RenovationMobile LiDAR ScanningBIM Modeling (Scan-to-BIM)Architectural Drawings & Existing Conditions

Deliverables

What QRC Delivered

Multi-floor LiDAR scan capturing all target areas in a single mobilization

Registered point cloud delivered in .rcp and .e57 formats

LOD 200 Revit model of architectural and structural elements

Dimensioned floor plans, reflected ceiling plans, and building sections

Web-based point-cloud viewer for remote team review

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