The premier brownfield redevelopment conference in Virginia is hosted by the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) and the City of Staunton.
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Brownfield assessment and redevelopment projects are often constrained by the same problems: limited resources, access, and data. Architects and planners designing adaptive reuse projects must work from photographs and guesswork. Community stakeholders struggle to visualize and advocate for redevelopment outcomes they cannot see. Three technologies are changing that: UAS-derived orthomosaics and 3D photogrammetry, SLAM-based mobile LiDAR scanning, and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). Together they enable photorealistic, spatially accurate, and interactive digital outputs that stakeholders in the redevelopment process can use. Designers use these tools to accurately and efficiently build scale digital models, generate as-built drawings, and quickly reference details and measurements without making additional site visits or sifting through hundreds of photographs. All of this allows for more time spent engaging with communities to create redevelopment concepts and supporting drawings that are easily understood by stakeholders, residents, and potential funding agencies that are unfamiliar with the project.
