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Survival and winning business in today’s tough economy demands fresh thinking, strong relationships with industry leaders, solid technical skills and a relentless appetite to qualify and solve customer problems-- the same old, same old 2D work is never coming back.

SPAR 2010 Business & Technical Take-Aways

1. Construction: Understand Scan-to-BIM workflows for building and civil infrastructure projects. Learn how construction companies are winning new business, reducing change orders, speeding up schedules through better sequencing and coordination with BIM deliverables founded in 3D laser scanning.
   
   
2. Get the cost and risk out of industrial plant revamp projects by updating scanning workflows. Integrating scan data with piping, structural and other design applications has improved dramatically in the past 12 months. See demonstrations from AVEVA, Autodesk, Bentley, COADE, Inovx and others.
   
   
3. New technology: Laser scanning is going mainstream—assess the impact on your workflows. Autodesk, Bentley and ESRI are bring-ing point cloud functionality to their millions of users, and new point cloud processing software from Alice Labs, ClearEdge3D, Kubit, Pointools, PinPoint3D and others can speed up back-office processing and deliverable extraction. See new scanning hardware at SPAR 2010, too. Meet the technology leads every important supplier of laser scanning hardware and software in the world.
   
   
4. Get up to speed with two-hour 3D Laser Scan-ning Boot Camps: one focused on industrial applications, the other on civil, transportation and building applications. New this year is a mobile scanning/mapping boot camp.
   
   
5. Learn how security planning and forensic teams are using 3D imaging techniques to prepare for high-proἀle public events; survey, document and visualize crime scenes; and mitigate departmental risk exposure for ofἀcer-involved shootings. Presentations range from case studies on homicide investigations to methods for detecting improvised explosive devices (IEDs).
   
   
6. Get more productivity from your existing investments in hardware, software and human capital. Upgrade your skills. Get professional development and education credits to keep your professional licenses current.
   
   
7. Mobile scanning is disrupting traditional survey businesses. Get up to date on new mobile data capture solutions that shave weeks off survey schedules and increase safety, too. Learn what works, who’s doing it and why and how to partner. Test drive mobile data capture rigs from Earth-mine, Optech, StreetMapper/Terrametrix/GeoDigital, TITAN, Topcon and Trimble.
   
   
8. Build your network of trusted, competent service providers. It’s a buyer’s market for services—make sure you get the best. Validate your service provider qualiἀcation process. Qualify the world’s most experienced providers face to face.
   
   
9. Learn all about building Web portals to provide point cloud and survey data together with digi-tal photographs and associated databases. Portals based on Leica’s TruView and Z+F’s NetView open up new service opportunities, enhance client contact and aid the generation of new revenue streams.
   
   
10. Re-energize your business development efforts. Learn how green design, renewable energy and sustainability efforts are driving survey work. Understand how laser scanning service providers are growing their businesses with digital heritage preservation and documentation projects. Learn how delivering pro bono project work can stimulate market awareness and demand for services.