Case Study: Wade Trim achieves faster, safer water facility inspections with NavVis VLX

Scanning deep underground water reservoirs with NavVis VLX

Wade Trim, an infrastructure engineering firm, needed to inspect massive underground water reservoirs for the Great Lakes Water Authority. Their traditional manual inspection process was slow, labor-intensive, expensive for the client, and exposed workers to hazardous conditions, making it difficult to achieve complete coverage and retrievable data for high-quality assessments.

By implementing the NavVis VLX mobile mapping system, Wade Trim created a hybrid inspection workflow. This NavVis solution enabled a team of two to capture a facility in a fraction of the time, reducing inspection time for a 500,000 sq ft tank from weeks to under four days. This significantly cut client costs and facility downtime while dramatically improving worker safety. The retrievable data also provided long-term value for historical comparison and maintenance planning.

Wade Trim

Neil Wakeman

Advanced Design Technology Lead