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February 10-12, 2025  |  Colorado Convention Center   |  Denver, CO, USA

The Intersection of Geospatial + the Built World

Geo Week is proud to partner with USIBD. This partnership provides networking, technical training, and technology for professionals in building documentation and for professionals working in related fields.

What is USIBD?

The U.S. Institute of Building Documentation (USIBD) is the first U.S. membership organization to focus specifically on supporting the Building Documentation Industry. The USIBD is committed to being the leading resource for all stakeholder groups with an interest in Building Documentation. As such, the USIBD strives to provide its members with a network of support and information, embracing industry professionals throughout the U.S. and Internationally.

Who are USIBD members?

USIBD members include all stakeholders in Building Documentation, including building owners, building operators, architects, engineers, surveyors, service providers, contractors, real estate professionals, project managers, BIM/CAD managers, GPS specialists, GIS specialists, imaging specialists, heritage professionals and historic preservationists, reality capture specialists, CAD/model specialists, programmers, professors, students and more.

What are the USIBD’s activities at Geo Week 2025? 

The U.S. Institute of Building Documentation (USIBD) is hosting a “Reality Capture to Plan” event. Using commercially available hardware and software, manufacturers will map a designated area of the Colorado Convention Center. The resulting floor plans will be compared for accuracy and completeness using USIBD’s LiDAR Level of Accuracy specifications and presented in this session.

Results will be presented on Wednesday, February 12 from 11:15 AM – 12:15 PM in the Exhibit Hall Theater.

USIBD Programming Agenda at-a-glance:

Monday, February 13 – Hardware

Experience Reality Capture tech in action as leading laser scanner manufacturers scan the Exhibit Floor. 

Tuesday, February 14 – Software

Processing and visualization of manufacturers’ scanned data by leading software vendors. USIBD will also engage participants in a fun, exciting contest with prizes to be announced on the following day.

Wednesday, February 15 – Normalize to specs and compare

Data is normalized to USIBD specifications for side-by-side comparisons. At 11:00am – 12:30pm in the Exhibit Hall Theater, during a special session, USIBD will present the data and announce the winners of the contest. 

John Russo

“The USIBD is excited to once again participate in Geo Week. In 2025, we will host our Reality Capture to Plan event challenging some of the industry’s leading vendors to capture and create a plan of our event space test course. The results will be published in a report and you can decide which solutions are best for your projects.”

John Russo

Founder | Board Member Emeritus
USIBD

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