Enchanted Hills Camp & Retreat

• Nearly 100% accurate floor layouts
• Fewer costly change orders on site
• Less productivity loss from rework

The Enchanted Hills Camp rebuild involved architects Peter Pfau and Helen Schneider designing new accessible buildings for blind, deaf-blind, and low-vision campers on a tight, fire-recovery timeline. For the Forest Commons building, which houses the camp's commercial and teaching kitchen, the project team needed a way to translate detailed CAD layouts into the field with precision, especially given how many pieces of specialized kitchen equipment had to align exactly with plumbing, electrical, and accessibility features.

The team turned to Dusty Robotics' FieldPrinter, which prints architectural plans directly onto the construction site floor from CAD files, rendering points, lines, text, and QR codes at nearly 100 percent accuracy. This let the design intent travel straight from the architects' drawings to the job site floor, which was central to why the project team chose FieldPrinter over relying on tape measures and paper plans alone.

Rebuilding Enchanted Hills Camp after the 2017 wildfire meant delivering complex, accessibility-focused buildings like the Forest Commons commercial and teaching kitchen on a tight permitting and construction timeline. The project team needed construction crews to install specialized kitchen equipment and finishes in exact alignment with the architects' plans, with little room for the change orders and rework that come from layout errors.

Communicating detailed CAD layouts to the field accurately, especially in spaces designed around cane-detectable paths and precise equipment placement for a facility serving blind and low-vision campers, was a particular challenge that traditional manual layout methods made harder to solve quickly.

Before FieldPrinter, construction crews on the Enchanted Hills Camp rebuild would have relied on traditional layout methods, manually measuring and marking floor positions from paper plans using tape measures, chalk lines, and string. On a project with detailed, accessibility-driven kitchen and building layouts, this manual process left more room for measurement error and made it harder to catch discrepancies between the design and what was actually built until equipment was already being installed.

Using Dusty Robotics FieldPrinter on the Enchanted Hills Camp rebuild let construction crews install kitchen equipment in the Forest Commons building with confidence, working from floor plans printed directly on site at nearly 100 percent accuracy rather than interpreting paper drawings and tape measurements. Camp instructor Hoby Wedler, who is blind, noted that construction workers were able to install equipment with confidence and know exactly where each piece of equipment should live by reading the printed floorplans on the floor.

Because layout errors are a major driver of both change orders, which typically account for 10 to 15 percent of project budgets, and productivity loss, typically around 20 percent, printing accurate CAD data directly onto the site floor helped the project team avoid much of that rework. It also streamlined communication between the architects' plans and the field, letting Peter Pfau and Helen Schneider's detailed accessibility-driven design intent carry through to the finished building.