PPM now offering Archicad As-Built Models A New BIM Deliverable to Support your Residential Remodel Projects If you’re an architect specializing in residential remodels, and you love collaborating and designing in intuitive, easy-to-use BIM software, our newest service offering has launched with you in mind! PPM is proud to announce Archicad as our latest residential…

What is an As-Built Survey? The Most Critical Part of your Remodel It is important to first understand what an As-Built plan is. At PPM, we measure the inside and outside of a building with very accurate lasers, and then create a drawing which shows the exact dimensions and layout of the building. That’s an…

Preparing for your Residential As-Built Survey Site Visit If you’re preparing for your residential As-Built Survey site visit, you’re more than likely preparing your home for a remodel or addition. Congratulations on this special endeavor to enhance the space you’re living in! As your architect or designer likely told you, accurate and up-to-date As-Built plans…

PPM Profiled: Meet Eamon Pickard Seattle Regional Director For many months now, our team has been carefully planning the July 2021 launch of our newest Seattle office and looking forwarding to providing the best in As-Built Surveying services to the local architecture community. At PPM, great team members are vital to our success, and more…

Swiftly Tackling A Time Sensitive, 550-Location As-Built Survey Program How One QSR Brand Prepared for a Nationwide Remodel in Record Time When a large quick service restaurant chain wanted to remodel 550 locations in a year, they chose PPM as their As-Built partner. By quickly understanding their needs, adapting to their preferred communication rhythm, and…

Meet Rogelio Medina a.k.a. Rogi (row-gee) As-Built Surveyor and Drafter Mornings at our PPM headquarters in Long Beach, California range between a quiet, small group to a loud, boisterous crew. It really depends on where our As-Built surveyor-drafters are stationed for the day. We greet the morning as a team in what we call The…

3 Historic Landmarks Preserved through Digital Archiving In October of 2013, a 7.2-magnitude earthquake hit the Philippine region of Bohol. In April of 2019, a fierce fire engulfed the roof of Paris’ famous Notre Dame Cathedral claiming the spire and causing devastating damage to the roof and upper walls. Fortunately, a 3D laser scan of…

As-Built Survey Case Study: Preparing the Famous Seelbach Hotel for Renovations Welcome to the Seelbach! The story of the Seelbach Hotel dates back to 1903. It began when the Seelbach brothers, who were recent immigrants from Bavaria, decided to open a luxury hotel in downtown Louisville that would capture all of the old-world elegance of…