COVID_19
Our company is currently working from home to conform with Government guidelines for Tier 4 and to help keep our staff and everyone safe. We can still be contacted as normal by email or telephone on our usual contact addresses. We are also developing new COVID-19 Services to help your business get open online so please take a look at our COVID-19 page for details.
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ABOUT US....
As we pass over 20 years in business, Cairn Active Design Ltd continues to provide a vast range of traditional and innovative information services.
Based in Dunfermline and Established in 1998, we have had many years experience providing Property Information Services for the banking, building, Health , food and security industries.
Our clients range from individuals to multinationals and we can cover a range of projects large or small, no project is too small or too big for us!
We currently manage CAD and space management data for The The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC and have been involved in their CAD area for over 19 years. This involves a major bank portfolio of over 3000 properties in the UK and overseas.
Our company refuses to be complacent and continues to expand into new areas of the rapidly moving state of technology keeping us as up-to-date as possible for our clients demands.
The CAIRN 3D VIRTUAL TOUR SERVICE PACKAGE launches this month immersing our clients even futher into the a world of 3D for Cad Drawings , Floorplans and Digital Photography.
MEASURED BUILDING SURVEYS....
Using the latest hardware, software and in-house develop CAD routines, we can measure photographs and produce;
- accurate CAD floorplans
- elevations
- sections
- visualizations of any building
State of the art laser measurement tools are use to ensure the utmost accuracy, along with the latest software for processing of the data efficiently and precisely.
We have provided surveys for the following clients;
- RBS
- NatWest
- Dominos
- Hattrell
- DS One Architects
- DTZ
- Drivers Jonas
- DWP
- Currie & Brown
- Fife NHS
Intelligence & finished CAD drawings are linked to each other, and to photos, virtual tours, maps, documents etc to give a seamless view of all the data you have, using the surveyed CAD data as an interactive visual hub.
COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN ...
Specific CAD software includes
- Autocad
- Microstation
- Cadopia
We use these to create and process CAD files in any format, to suit clients requirements.
Customer requirements can range from straightforward Floor Plans and Elevations, or with further processing we can produce drawings for
- Stacking Plans
- Furniture Layouts
- Fire Risk Assesments
- Planning Applications
- Building Warrants
- Health and Safety Audits
- Land Registry
- Asset Registers
- Sale Particulars
Other software we use to provide relevant data included
- Photoshop, Acrobat, Excel, Word,Access, Powerpoint, Scan2CAD, AIDE, Visio, Archibus, Bluebeam, Brava
We also create specific efficiency enhancing custom programs, routines and tools within the CAD software which ensures efficiency and consistency of data.Creation of enhancements for your Cad system is another area of our expertise.
Re-layering of Cad drawing data to any derived standards applicable to your organization is an area of particular expertise, as is the issuing and receiving of Cad data on your behalf, ensuring that external suppliers adhere to your set of CAD Standards.
Our use of CAD is not just restricted to the field of measured building surveys, or indeed anything related to buildings, if its on CAD or needs to be on CAD we can help you.
We currently manage CAD and space management data for a major bank’s portfolio of over 3000 properties in the UK and overseas.
CAD PLUS....
Space Management & Planning
We have been heavily involved in using CAD data to track and report on space utilisation, asset registers and desk/room booking systems since we launched as a business. Using specialist software such as Archibus or making clever use of your existing systems such as Access or Visio, to provide report data and Stacking Plans, we can cost effectively meet your needs.
Building Alterations , Acquisitions and Disposals
From carrying out alterations to provide proposal drawings, for Planning Applications and Building Warrants, to Land Registry compliant plans for property disposals, through to providing the necessary plans and photographic material for property sales particulars, both domestic and commercial.
Health and Safety Compliance
Adding information onto the base drawings for Health and Safety compliance, this includes drawings for Fire Risk Assessments, Asbestos Recording and Health and Safety audits.
Incident and Contingency Planning
Combining CAD drawings with geographic mapping to pinpoint your organisation’s property portfolio, with associated population information, this provides a highly desirable and necessary tool to protect your estate and staff in the event of a major Incident. Used very successfully by our major clients in mock and real incidents.
PHOTOGRAPHY....
Whether on its own or as part of a Measured Building Survey, we can record and display various aspects of buildings by linking photographs to Cad plans, providing a location reference for each photo, or producing new edited photos to show rebranding or resignage proposals for planning applications.
We can also provide very good quality images within a Virtual Tour
WEB DESIGN....
With us you can create a modern responsive website that will capture the visitors attention and enable them to view it clearly on any device . Trained in the latest HTML5 responsive web design we can create basic website for you or develop your current one.
Responsive Web Design enables your website to adapt to any size of screen enabling it to be read clearly on any device and of any screen size.
Your website will be adapted to your individual needs and you will be able to choose how detailed a website you would like. Some of the options include;
- Adding a Virtual Tour
- Adding images
- Adding Floorplans with or without radar
- Special Effects
- Links to Videos
- Online Shopping Cart
- Links to shopping websites
- pop-up spreadsheets or documents
WEB SERVICE OPTIONS
Owning the rights to your website to enable you to update it by yourself or with your own in-house web-developers.
OR
Using our Web Maintenance services to update your website either on a daily/weekly/monthly or yearly basis. This can be useful for websites with news feeds or prices that change on a regular basis.
If you would like our Web Design Service please get in touch and we will arrange a meeting as soon as possible to discuss your options.
THE CAIRN 3D VIRTUAL TOUR SERVICE PACKAGE
Amaze your viewers with a 3D Virtual Tour for your website and online use. This tool is an excellent showcase for your website and Social Media Pages enabling the viewer to jump in to your property and have a good look around.
It has various buttons to choose from when you view the package online. It not only gives you a Virtual Tour of your premise but it can also enable the viewer to take measurements, take photographs and totally immerse themselves when using a Virtual Tour Headset.
As standard, the package will contain a 3D model, a coloured floorplan, a 'play button' so you can sit back and let it take you on a virtual tour without any interation and a measurement tool.
There are buttons on the right that allow you to easily share the tour and take you into virtual reality mode for using with a Virtual Reality Headset and that allow you to change to full screen viewing.
Additional buttons can be purchased including a snapshot button so the viewer can take photographs within the tour and download them.Other options include a variation button so you can toggle pictures(ie change a picture from colour to sepia). These are listed below.
We can also offer a Staging service where we can add furniture etc to an empty space using CGI, this is called Staging. For more information click this link to go to our Virtual Staging Page for details.
Click on some of our Virtual Tours listed below to see them working. If you are viewing it on a PC or large screen then be sure to press the 'full screen' button on the bottom right of each example after pressing 'play' to get the best full screen viewing experience.
A Little Bit About Virtual Tours
A Virtual Tour of your property can totally immerse your online viewers into your property really showing it off to its maximum potential and giving viewers a true sense of 'feeling' before visiting it in person. It can also help to weed out less interested customers and save on expensive and time consuming site visits & provide reassurance.
It can allow your online visitors to access unsafe or unreachable areas or allow those with mobility disabilities access to places they can't do in person helping them enjoy the same experiences as everyone. It can also allow future visitors to check out suitable disabled routes and gain confidence before their arrival. With online Virtual tours, nowhere is unreachable.
The Benefits
Our 3D Virtual Tour Service package is a fantastic easy to use tool for viewers of your website and social media pages. Listed below are some more of it's Benefits;
Additional Services(at extra cost)
Once your virtual tour package is finished there are a lots of additional services you can grow from it such as;
YOU CAN CHOOSE ONE OF THE PACKAGES BELOW OR WE CAN ADAPT A PACKAGE TO SUIT YOUR NEEDS
| Bronze Package | Silver Package | Gold Package | Additional Services |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Virtual Tour | A Virtual Tour | A Virtual Tour | 4K Video Ad Production |
| High quality 4K print ready panoramic and Standard Photography | High quality 4K print ready panoramic and Standard Photography | High quality 4K print ready panoramic and Standard Photography | Bundle of Data Files For Architects, Engineers & Technicians |
| Option of Upload to Google Maps | Option of Upload to Google Maps | Option of Upload to Google Maps | Additional Adapted Tours(ie for Disability, Facility Hire, Safe Zones, Venue Hireetc) |
| no tags | Up to 50 Standard Information Tags Added(more can be purchased) | Up to 100 Standard Information Tags Added(more can be purchased) | Treasure Hunts or Quizzes |
| Up to 5 Interactive tags(more can be purchased) | Up to 10 Interactive tags(more can be purchased) | Black & White Schematic Floorplans | |
| A 3D Model(Dollhouse Image) | A 3D Model(Dollhouse Image) | A 3D Model(Dollhouse Image) | Interactive Map Creation |
| A 3D Virtual Reality Tour ( the latest in Virtual Tour Technology - VR Headset capability totally immersing the viewer) | A Virtual Reality Tour ( the latest in Virtual Tour Technology - VR Headset capability totally immersing the viewer) | A Virtual Reality Tour ( the latest in Virtual Tour Technology - VR Headset capability totally immersing the viewer) | 4k Video presentation for advertising use fully edited |
| Any CAD services we can offer(see our Web Pages) | BOOK NOW | BOOK NOW | BOOK NOW |
ADDITIONAL SERVICES WE CAN OFFER IN MORE DETAIL
CREATING AN INTERACTIVE MAP FOR YOUR VIRTUAL TOURS
Once your Virtual Tour has been produced, we can look at creating a map service for your website to embed our tours and photography into. This could be used for large private property grounds with outbuildings or for a tourist street map etc. The map can incorporate a mixture of Virtual Tours and photography for the viewer to interactively experience by clicking the hotspots on the map.
Alternatively,, If you have already spent money on creating a map for your business, we can easily turn this into an interactive map for your website without any further mapping creation costs.
Your Virtual Tour can also be included on our own Cairn Virtual Reality UK Directory Map to further advertise your business at no extra cost. This map will be displayed on our Website available for our website visitors to look at giving your further advertising.
A TREASURE HUNT/ QUIZ
A Treasure Hunt or quiz for your virtual tour is a great way of grabbing the attention of visitors to your website or social media sites. Its a good way of getting them to take a look at your virtual tour quickly. Perhaps offer a prize for the quiz or treasure hunt.
If you would like a Treasure Hunt done for your Virtual tour then you can either arrange to have items hidden before we visit to photograph the tour or you can create a treasure hunt or quiz at a later date using the items on display normally.
ADDITIONAL ADAPTED TOURS
Our virtual tour showcase can be reproduced and adapted to a particular need. Some ideas could be;
BLACK & WHITE SCHEMATIC FLOOR PLANS
We can create floorplans of the area we have captured in your Virtual Tour Package. These can be with you within 2 working days and can include labels and internal measurements etc.
THE CAIRN BUNDLE
This Bundle is a file package for architects, engineers, and construction professionals who want to import these assets into third-party programs (3ds max, ReCap, Revit, or AutoCAD), perform additional work, and then offer as part of a commercial package to their clients. For example:
Take a look at our photograph gallery below to see an interesting selection of photography we have captured from our Virtual tours showcase.
Using our company for Virtual Tours is using a well established company you can trust. We can provide services far beyone a basic virtual tour service or a simple package . No project is too big or too small for us.
Get in touch soon if you would like a presentation of our 3D Virtual Tour Service Packages.
Virtual Staging
CGI (computer generated images) can help to stage a property . This means we can help take an empty property and fill it with furniture or ideas of what it could look like. We can now create a fully staged virtual tour or still image of rooms to help the viewer imagine a property with different looks.
To enable us to create these images our CGI expert can work with you on the design ideas and help you get the project looking just how you would like or you can let us do the imaginative interier design for you.
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE CGI IMAGES ABOVE IN VIRTUAL REALITY ON A VR CAPABLE MOBILE DEVICE(mobile phone or/and VR headset)
A Staged Virtual Tour example
The Above Virtual Tour has been created by our CGI expert to let the viewer imagine what this premise could look like in the future. Click the Virtual Reality button and use a Virtual Reality Headset for a total emmersive experience. (Please note that the quality of the video will be better than this example)
The Benefits of using our CGI Service
If you would be interested in getting a quote from us for any work then please do not hesitate to contact. Details of how to do so can be found on our 'Contact Us' page .