As-Built Plans: Drawings That Match What's Really There
As-built plans for architects, engineers, and contractors — delivered in CAD, Revit, and PDF. Because every set is built from millimeter-accurate 3D laser scans rather than tape measurements, the drawings match the building.
The drawing of what's actually there.
An as-built drawing is the verified record of a building's existing conditions — every wall, opening, beam, duct, and fixture documented in its real-world location, rather than its intended one.
Original design drawings represent intent. As-built plans, by contrast, represent reality. Walls shift during construction, equipment gets relocated, change orders accumulate, and decades of renovations leave most buildings looking nothing like their permitted plans.
For any renovation, addition, retrofit, or facility upgrade, therefore, working from outdated drawings becomes the single biggest source of change orders, RFIs, and clashes. Because we capture the building as it is, your design team builds against truth instead of assumption.
Record drawings · Existing conditions documentation · As-built surveys · For-record drawings
Architectural, structural, and MEP — captured together.
A single 3D laser scan documents every system in the building simultaneously. As a result, discipline-specific as-built plans share one coordinated source of truth, so every consultant on your team works from the same verified geometry.
Architectural
Walls, openings, finishes, ceiling heights, fixtures, and all visible architectural elements documented to your firm's drafting standards. Above all, this is the foundation of any renovation or adaptive reuse project.
- Floor plans with door/window schedules
- Reflected ceiling plans
- Interior & exterior elevations
- Building & wall sections
Structural
Load-bearing elements captured to high accuracy. This matters most for engineers verifying capacity for additions, change-of-use projects, or seismic retrofits, since assumptions there get expensive fast.
- Column & beam locations
- Slab thickness & floor flatness analysis
- Foundation & framing documentation
- Steel connection detailing
MEP
Ductwork, panels, conduit, piping, and equipment locations captured exactly where they are — including the routing legacy drawings never showed. Consequently, system upgrades and clash detection both get easier.
- HVAC ductwork & equipment
- Electrical panels, conduit & routing
- Plumbing risers, valves & fixtures
- Fire protection & sprinkler systems
Six deliverables. One source of truth for your project.
Every set of as-built plans is built from the same 3D scan dataset, so floor plans, elevations, and BIM models stay perfectly coordinated. No remeasures. No surprises during construction.
Floor Plans
Dimensioned plans of every level, with walls, openings, fixtures, and structural elements drawn to your sheet standard.
Exterior Elevations
All four elevations drawn from the scan, with material notes, opening locations, and verified ridge heights.
Building Sections
Cut sections through key parts of the structure, showing floor-to-floor heights, ceiling assemblies, and wall types.
Revit / BIM Model
LOD 200–300 native Revit BIM model with families parametrically tied to the scan. Ready to design from on day one.
Point Cloud
Raw and registered point cloud data in your preferred format — useful for clash detection, visualization, or future renovations.
Matterport Tour
Walkable, dimensionable 3D digital twin of the space. Share a link and let your team measure remotely from anywhere.
The drawings on file are almost never what got built.
During construction, walls move. Beams resize. Meanwhile, MEP gets re-routed around things no one expected, and decades of renovations pile on. In short, designing from old drawings means designing from fiction.
Clean. Symmetric. Aspirational. The drawing on file shows what the architect intended in 1962. Sixty-four years and four renovations later, however, the building has very little to do with this sheet.
What's actually there. The building is 5″ shorter than drawn, two interior partitions are gone, a server room was carved out, a new column was added, and three windows were bricked over. Notably, none of this exists in the design set.
Designing against fiction generates change orders. Designing against reality eliminates them.
From site visit to stamped drawings in under two weeks.
A repeatable, four-phase workflow refined over hundreds of buildings — from 800 sq ft cottages to 250,000 sq ft industrial facilities. See our full process for a step-by-step breakdown.
Scope & quote
Share project basics — square footage, levels, deliverable formats. Within 24 hours, a fixed-fee quote lands in your inbox.
On-site scan
Next, one of our certified technicians captures the building with a Matterport scanner. Most sites take 4–8 hours.
Drafting & modeling
Then our drafters and BIM modelers produce your deliverables to your standards — your titleblock, your layer system, your LOD.
QA & delivery
Finally, internal QA cross-checks every dimension against the scan. You receive files, point cloud, and a Matterport link.
As-builts aren't just a closeout document. They're a project lifecycle tool.
Smart AEC teams use as-built plans from the first feasibility study through facility operations. In other words, the same scan that informs design also speeds up construction and supports decades of facility management decisions.
Planning & design
Verify what's there before you draw a line. Architects and engineers design against real geometry instead of assumptions, so clashes get eliminated before they exist.
- Feasibility & due diligence
- Schematic & design development
- Permit & entitlement documentation
- Clash detection vs. proposed design
Construction & coordination
Bid against what's real. Coordinate trades from one accurate model. Meanwhile, recurring site scans catch hidden conditions before they become change orders and document progress as work proceeds.
- Quantity takeoffs from scan
- Prefab support & shop drawings
- Trade coordination & clash review
- Construction progress documentation
Operations & maintenance
At handover, facility managers receive a complete digital twin. Years later, when the next renovation begins, the as-built record is already in hand.
- Facility & asset management
- Tenant fit-out documentation
- Future renovation baseline
- Insurance & compliance records
The numbers AEC teams care about — accuracy, speed, and reliability.
Specs the design and construction team actually need.
Because most of our team came from the industry, we know how AEC professionals work. Here's what each discipline gets out of an As Built World as-built plans package.
Stop redrawing. Start designing.
Native Revit models with parametric families, drawn to your firm's standards. Coordinated plan, section, and elevation views from day one.
- Phase 1 documentation in days, not weeks
- Conforms to your titleblock & layer template
- LOD 300 model for design development
Verified geometry for analysis.
Structural, MEP, and civil teams get dimensionally accurate base data. As a result, there are no field trips, no assumptions, and no rework when reality differs from the original drawings.
- Slab, beam, and column locations to 20mm
- MEP routing and equipment locations captured
- Point cloud import to Revit MEP, AutoCAD MEP, Civil 3D
De-risk the renovation before bidding.
Catch hidden conditions, verify column grids, and bid against drawings that match the building. Consequently, change orders and the disputes that follow them both drop.
- Clash detection against existing conditions
- Quantity takeoffs from the scan
- Matterport tour for off-site coordination
What teams use our as-built plans for.
From feasibility studies to historic preservation to volumetric analysis, AEC teams put as-built data to work in dozens of ways. Here's the spectrum we support — and if you don't see your use case, just ask. For retail and multi-site programs, see store layout scanning.
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"We had legacy drawings from 1962 that didn't match anything on site. As Built World scanned the property in a day and had us a Revit model by the following Friday — it saved us at least three weeks of design schedule."
Questions AEC teams actually ask.
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What level of accuracy do you guarantee?
+What LOD can you deliver Revit models at?
+Can you draft to our firm's CAD or Revit standards?
+What file formats do you deliver?
+What's a typical turnaround for as-built plans?
+Do you scan occupied buildings?
+How is As Built World different from a competitor?
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