The building has a story to tell and Feldman conducted 3D Laser scans and a 3D model of the building to support its restoration with critical dimensions. Data from scans not only sped up the design process it is preserving a part of Worcester history. The chapel is the first Worcester building Feldman has scanned pro-bono, but the company plans to do more to help archive the key preservation projects.
The windows are boarded up or bricked over. Two decades worth of dust and grime obscures the cornice and the wooden spindles on the original staircase.
But with new laser technology, the architectural details hidden in the Mission Chapel are being revealed, catalogued, and marked for preservation, thanks to a pro-bono effort by a surveying firm to scan local historic properties.
“For historic preservation this is just great, because you can scan these things and see all the brick and mortar joints,” said Michael Feldman, president and CEO of Feldman Surveyors, a Roxbury-based firm that recently opened a second office, in Worcester. “This is the future of design.”
The WBJ Editor Brad Kane interviews Michael Feldman who will open up his surveying firm’s second location, on Mechanic Street in Worcester. Learn about planned Worcester projects and read more about the 3 generations who have guided the company to its current success.
In this interview by the Worcester, MA Chamber of Commerce, Michael Feldman, President & CEO of Feldman Surveyors, speaks about the new face of surveying and a compelling vision of the company’s modern, high tech surveying as the foundation of the construction life cycle, and shares the reasons for opening a new office in Worcester.
“We see ourselves as guiding the development vision to become the built reality,” says Michael Feldman who lays out a compelling vision of the company’s modern, high tech surveying as the foundation of the construction life cycle.
In an email announcing the new office, Feldman Surveyors said a Worcester location will give it proximity to its employees and projects, many of which are in Worcester including Worcester State College, College of the Holy Cross and the former Worcester County Courthouse slated for a $53-million redevelopment project.
