Lawrence Memorial Hospital
LiDAR capture of hospital chiller and mechanical rooms delivering a complex Revit MEP model for facility renovation planning.
November 2019
The ventilation of a hospital influences patients' infection risk. Many diseases, such as tuberculosis, mainly travel through the air. In a hospital with sick patients, improper ventilation can be a matter of life or death. Lawrence Memorial Hospital (now LMH Health) needed to replace a chiller and update their existing piping. The challenge was their infrastructure consisted of an 11-room labyrinth of pumps, chillers, and boilers. Documenting the area in the traditional way would have taken weeks, and produced a model of very limited accuracy.
Rogue was able to scan the area within a single day and create an accurate Revit model for LMH Health. Rogue's pinpoint accuracy established efficient strategies for moving the heat exchanger and simplifying the piping systems. The Revit model, given to a mechanical contractor, allowed them to prefabricate piping off-site. Once shipped to the hospital, everything snapped into place perfectly, thanks to Rogue's precision reality capture.
LMH Health is a nonprofit community-owned hospital founded in 1921. It began as five beds in one room and has expanded to buildings which currently house a total of 174 beds to serve the community of Lawrence, KS.