Full LiDAR capture and scan-to-BIM documentation of a 148-room, 5-story Hilton-brand extended-stay hotel in Pittsburgh’s Southpointe area, covering guest rooms, common areas, staff areas, and exterior elevations, completed in 3 days on site with zero disruption to the occupied property, to support a brand-compliance renovation and PIP.
Southpointe, Pittsburgh, PA
5-story Hilton-brand extended-stay hotel, 148 guest rooms
Multi-site Portfolios / Hotels and Hospitality
A Hilton-brand extended-stay property in Pittsburgh’s Southpointe area needed full existing-conditions documentation to support a renovation and Property Improvement Plan (PIP) for brand compliance. As an extended-stay hotel, the property’s suite-style layout and higher proportion of guest-facing common spaces meant the survey had to capture more variation room to room than a standard limited-service hotel floor plan.
The scale was significant: 148 guest rooms across five floors, plus every common area, staff area, and the full exterior. As with our Hattiesburg project, the hotel was fully operating throughout the capture, with guests staying on-site meaning the entire survey had to be planned around live occupancy with zero impact on hotel operations. All of it had to be completed in just 3 days on site, a tighter window than the comparable Hattiesburg project despite a similar room count.
The brief covered the full property: every guest room, all common areas, staff and back-of-house areas, and the full exterior elevations of the 5-story building. The client needed this translated into a coordinated Revit model to support the renovation design, alongside full CAD documentation – floor plans, reflected ceiling plans, and elevations – and a complete 3D virtual tour to give ownership and the design team a navigable record of the entire property.
With guests on-site throughout and only 3 days allotted, the capture had to be sequenced tightly, working room by room and floor by floor without disrupting housekeeping, guest access, or day-to-day hotel operations. Every guest room, corridor, common area, and staff area was captured with 3D LiDAR scanning at millimetre-level accuracy, alongside full exterior elevations of the building.
The compressed timeline against a 148-room, five-floor property meant an efficient on-site workflow was critical to stay on schedule. Once captured, the data was registered and processed, and our BIM team built a fully coordinated Revit model covering the entire property, supported by complete CAD floor plans, reflected ceiling plans, and elevations, with every deliverable checked against the point cloud to ensure the documentation would hold up to brand-compliance scrutiny.
Complete as-built documentation including CAD, PDF, and a coordinated Revit model covering all 148 rooms, common areas, staff areas, and exterior elevations was delivered along with a full 3D virtual tour of the property. The entire capture was completed in just 3 days on site, with the hotel remaining fully operational and no disruption to guests throughout.
For a property of this scale working toward a brand-compliance renovation, the value was a single, accurate, coordinated dataset covering the whole building, captured efficiently enough to keep the project on schedule — the foundation the PIP and renovation design could be built on with confidence, without the property ever having to close a floor or interrupt operations to get it.
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