Ferguson Enterprises: Reality Capture

Ferguson Enterprises is North America’s leading distributor of infrastructure, plumbing, and HVAC products with over 1,600 locations, 31,000 associates and $23 billion in annual revenue. W. M. Jordan Company and Ferguson Enterprises are headquartered in Newport News, Virginia. Over the past three decades, the two firms have developed a relationship of reliability and trust on fourteen projects valued at $180 million in today’s dollars.

As they continue to expand, Ferguson is continually looking at properties. Having experienced the benefits of VDC services on several projects, Ferguson turned to W. M. Jordan Company for VDC services outside of a shared building project.

The task was to create a 3D Building Information Model of existing spaces and turn that into a 3D virtual tour to help stakeholders visualize the space, understand its components, and guide executive decision-making on future designs. Our VDC team provided studies for several different building types:

• An existing supply house and sales counter
• An existing warehouse with plans to convert to a Gallery Showroom
• An existing facility with a sales office, showroom, warehouse and sales counter, with plans to reallocate storage
• A building study for space planning of an acquired warehouse
• A future real estate acquisition planned for renovation