In Coatesville, Pa., a depressed, rust-belt town about 40 miles west of Philadelphia with a population of 13,100, the city manager and the town’s consulting engineers are using 3D reality capture to help prospective developers see a diamond in the rough.
April Barkasi, founder and president of Cedarville Engineering Group LLC, Pottstown, came up with the idea of using Bentley System’s ContextCapture to build a 3D digital terrain model of a brownfield site as the basis for a redevelopment concept plan.