Rural Redevelopment Scanning Initiative

The K-State Technology Development Institute, or TDI, is working with the Innovation Center in northwest Kansas to create digital twins of underutilized buildings to provide developers with dimensionally accurate 3D models of the buildings. This aids in redevelopment plans and cost estimates to put the buildings back into use.

Through discussions with economic development officials and housing specialists, TDI discovered a large need to repurpose a wide range of buildings in rural communities to help address housing and child care needs. Using a state-of-the-art NavVis scanning system, TDI engineers are able to create digital twins of these buildings.

Now rural communities can contact developers and provide them with a virtual walk-through of the building and a complete, dimensionally accurate 3D digital file of the facility to begin gathering cost estimates of what it would take to repurpose the buildings. It's a critical first step in moving projects forward.

For more information about the Rural Redevelopment Scanning Initiative, contact Bret Lanz with the K-State Technology Development Institute at 785-532-7473 or blanz@k-state.edu.

Read a K-State news release about the project.