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AIA Houston 23rd Annual Sandcastle Competition - Galveston
Each year the Houston Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) sponsors this contest where teams compete for the "Golden Bucket" award. Smart Geometrics will complete 3D LiDAR laser scans of the top six winning sandcastles (and as many more we can before the tide comes in!) The registered scans are available for use and enjoyment by all. Take a look at some of our renderings or dowload the scans directly for your own manipulation. 3D HD Laser scanning is an important new technology and is used for the rapid collection of accurate as-built / as-is data.
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How to view clouds directly:
The sandcastle data is available as:
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Want to bring the laser scan data directly into AutoCAD?
Contact us here for a free trial of Leica Geosystems CloudWorx for AutoCAD
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Leica TruView is free and can be downloaded here!
The Pointools viewer is free and can be downloaded here!
There were lots of great sandcastles, here are the ones we were able to scan. Congratulations to all the competitors!
Golden Bucket Award "Good Knight" Matrix Spencer Architects |
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Silver Shovel Award "Love Earth Every Day" Page Southerland Page Architects |
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Bronze Shovel Award "Castle Com-PL-Hex" CTA Austin, Flintco Construction |
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College Challenge Winner "The Art Of Structure" Prairie View A&M University |
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Honorable Mention "Sand Formers -Sea Life in Disguise" Brown+Gay Engineers, Inc. |
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Honorable Mention "Homeland Security" English+Assoc. Architects. Inc. |
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Apologies to Honorable Mention winners, Jacobs Engineering. We were not able to get your sandcastle scanned in time. - Next Year!
Site questions or need more information? email: hds@smartmm.com Updated June 6, 2009