Residential | Commerical | Industrial
Pointknown documented Phillips Exeter Academy’s Wetherell Dining Hall in Exeter, New Hampshire, capturing the exterior envelope along with key interior spaces including the kitchen, commissary, and dining areas. This was an early-generation existing conditions project, completed before today’s faster mobile scanning workflows became standard, which meant accuracy depended on process, discipline, and knowing how to assemble reliable building information from multiple sources.
Working from field measurement, photography, photogrammetry, and our in-house PKNail workflow, we produced a usable digital baseline that supported design and planning for a complex institutional building. It was an old-school capture effort in the best sense: measured carefully, built thoughtfully, and delivered in a format the design team could actually use.
Location: Exeter, New Hampshire
Building Type: Dining Hall, Commissary, and Dormitory Facilities
Scope: Exterior documentation plus interior capture of kitchen, commissary, and dining areas
Deliverables: Existing conditions Revit model and supporting building documentation
Technology: Autodesk Revit, PKNail Pro, Leica laser measurement, photography, photogrammetry
Institutional buildings like Wetherell Dining Hall require more than a quick field visit. Large communal spaces, service areas, back-of-house functions, and older building conditions all need to be documented in a way that gives architects and project teams confidence in what they are designing from.
For this project, Pointknown assembled a coordinated documentation workflow using the tools available at the time: laser measurement, structured photography, photogrammetry, and model production in Autodesk Revit. Our PKNail platform helped translate field information into organized building geometry, supporting a practical and dependable existing conditions model.
The result was a digital foundation the team could use to move forward with planning, renovation, and design work without starting from guesswork. That has always been the goal: create clear, digestible building information so the architect can focus on the next step.
Long before mobile SLAM, 360 video, and faster cloud-based reality capture became common, Pointknown was already building measured digital baselines for complex properties. Projects like Phillips Exeter Hall reflect the same thing we still bring today: careful fieldwork, sound judgment, and deliverables built for real design use.