Bar Buca on Eglinton

A Bar Buca restaurant was under construction on Eglinton in midtown Toronto, with shareholders and ownership based outside the country. Multiple progress scans were captured at key construction milestones — the same building, the same vantage points, revisited as the space transformed from open framing into a finished restaurant. Each scan became a shareable link the absentee stakeholders could walk through from anywhere in the world.

The problem — investment without line of sight

A new commercial fit-out involves dozens of decisions a week. When the people putting capital into the project can’t walk the site, every photo update becomes a partial answer to a question they didn’t get to ask. Written reports describe progress. Photos show fragments. Neither lets a stakeholder check — does that mechanical room actually have the routing they signed off on? Is the bar layout the one in the rendering?

A 3D scan answers that the same way a site visit does: by letting the viewer look wherever they want, from wherever they are.

What we delivered — multi-phase progress scans

Two complete scans of the site at different construction milestones, shareable as standalone links. Stakeholders abroad could walk through both, compare specific rooms side by side, and check the build against their own expectations without waiting on someone else’s photo angle.

Scan one — early framing & mechanicals

The first progress scan, taken with framing up, services rough-in underway, and the bar layout staked out. Every mechanical run, stud bay, and chase visible at this point in the build is in the record.

Scan two — finishes going in

The second progress scan, captured after drywall and finishing surfaces went in. The same vantage points, transformed — letting stakeholders see exactly which decisions had landed since the previous scan.

Walking the same rooms across both scans

The scans cover the same room positions at both milestones. Each pair below shows the same view from the first scan and the second — so a viewer can compare progress at a glance.

Bar

Bathroom

Entrance

Kitchen

Scan coverage — every position across both progress scans

Each progress scan captures the building’s full footprint at that moment in time. The scan-position maps below show how density was set up identically across the two visits — same vantage points, same coverage, so the comparison between scans is apples-to-apples.

Why progress scanning works for absentee stakeholders

A shareholder living abroad can’t make the trip every two weeks to walk a job site. A scan replaces that trip with a link — and the link works on any device, from any time zone, as often as the stakeholder needs.

Decisions stay fast because the people writing cheques can check rather than wait for a phone call. Compare a current scan to the previous one. Look at any room from any angle. Pull a measurement off the model. The space stops being someone else’s photo angle and starts being the same view the project lead has on site.

For Bar Buca, the multi-phase scan record is also what makes a post-handoff conversation easier years from now. If a service question comes up, or a renovation is planned, or a warranty issue lands, the full construction record is still navigable — long after the build crew has moved on.