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HDScope
Hayes Davidson
HDScope is an on-site impact-assessment tool that can quickly assess the visual impacts of a scheme with a very high degree of accuracy.
Developed in response to rapid changes in the planning sector and the need to work faster and smarter, HDScope facilitates early collaboration between consultants and helps mitigate risk in early-stage consultation and planning assessments.
HDScope offers a robust and compelling assessment method – it is the visual impact assessment cheat code.
Mobile and location-responsive, HDScope overlays the camera on an iOS mobile device with a preloaded project model, combining real-world context to instantly assess visual impacts. It can also switch between different model options to comparatively assess their potential impact. Screenshots and recordings with GPS references can be downloaded from the device straight into assessment reports, and reviewed as the scheme develops.
HDScope can illustrate multiple models at any time and allows for total freedom of movement while maintaining the model’s accurate position in the app:
HDScope is designed for use by anyone working in the built environment, providing developers, planners, architects and townscape and heritage consultants with fast, accurate, real-time impact assessments. It can even add value at site acquisition stage when assessing the constraints and commercial potential of a site.
Having worked in partnership with our clients to refine its use, HDScope is now an integrated part of our offer and service, and we are rolling it out on live projects in the UK and the US with very positive results. Non-verified wirelines provided by the app have been used to assess and refine view selections quickly and efficiently, whilst also being submitted as part of appendix documents showing contextual non-contentious views.
We are now using the app on live projects, and so far the feedback has been incredibly positive, with key decisions being made on-site based on the information provided by HDScope, such as sensitive view selection, or design amendments based on contentious view corridors.
We have also given demonstrations to our clients in New York, Vancouver and Hawaii, which have highlighted the potential for the tool in planning processes in other cities, as well as marketing, sales and leasing environments. It could be invaluable for explaining future developments to interested buyers and future tenants for office and residential schemes, or giving context to how surrounding developments will affect the future residents of a building.
HDScope allowed us to see quickly and on-site where the scheme would sit within the tree line, something that is difficult to do in a traditional 3D model due to the inaccuracy of trees and leaf cover.
As we continue to develop its capabilities, we anticipate HDScope adding value not only in planning but in marketing and sales environments where it can explain future commercial and residential schemes and their surroundings to potential buyers and tenants. Extending the app's future use to local communities or neighbourhood groups will facilitate wider participation in the planning process.
