Surveying what's about to change: DEAL's work on Costa Ragusa Borgo & Resort
Some surveys capture something right before it disappears. That's what DEAL did for Mangia's (@mangiascostaragusaborgo) - the laser scan of the pre-existing structure on the site where Costa Ragusa Borgo & Resort now stands, in Ragusa, before it was incorporated and rebuilt into the new complex.
Costa Ragusa Borgo & Resort
The job started with a clear scope: just the common areas and the hotel. But the real complexity of the site quickly changed the scale of the work. Through an addendum to the original brief, the survey expanded to cover every part of the structure - internal walkways, staff housing, workshops, underground technical areas. Two jobs in one, in practice, covering a total area of around 70-80 hectares.
Fieldwork was carried out with a combination of Leica BLK360 and RTC360 laser scanners - the same equipment the DEAL team uses for surveys of this scale and complexity, the same one used, for example, on the Stadio Renzo Barbera survey in Palermo for Palermo FC. Here, though, there was an added variable rarely seen on site: no power grid, which meant carefully managing the equipment's charging cycles to keep the fieldwork moving without interruption, completed in about a month.
The scan produced a georeferenced point cloud of around 40.7 billion points, from 5,800 scans linked by roughly 8,000 connections, with cloud-to-cloud accuracy between 3 and 8 mm depending on the area - numbers that speak to the scale of a survey built to capture every inch of the complex before it changed shape.
From this base, the team modeled the as-built structure in Revit, over about two to three months. Beyond the BIM model, DEAL developed photorealistic renders of the outdoor spaces, the pools, the rooms, and a navigable animated video of the whole complex - tools that let Mangia's and the design team explore and manage the resort from the early stages of the renovation.
The BIM model isn't just a technical output. It's a reliable digital base to build the renovation project on, with real data that reduces uncertainty and speeds up the conversation between the different disciplines involved.
This project adds to the other surveys DEAL has carried out for Mangia's, and it's further proof of how central the Scan-to-BIM method has become to hospitality renovations of this scale.
The full project, with renders and video, is available on the project page on the DEAL website.