(GKS: Minneapolis) -- GKS Scanning Services is seeking partnerships with surveying and civil engineering firms that want to offer 3-D laser scanning to their customers. Many of these firms see the benefit of 3-D scanning but have not yet incorporated this complementary technology due to its high cost and technical complexity. Because GKS is not a competing professional engineering firm, the company aims to form collaborative partnerships with a select number of these firms in different regions.

"Today, large-scale 3-D laser scanning is a viable alternative for surveying sites and making digital models of structures like never before," says a GKS company spokesperson. 3-D scanning is a great tool for surveying large-scale, complex entities, such as entire buildings, factories, power plants, roads, bridges, landscapes, and other structures and locations. The collected data can be used to create universally usable, dimensionally accurate 3-D CAD models or conventional 2-D line drawings such as blueprints or floor plans.

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