Texas A&M Gains Remote Quality Control

• Weekly documentation in under 1 hour
• 24/7 stakeholder access nationwide
• Sub-inch accuracy on design vs. built

Texas A&M's construction team needed a reliable way to track progress, maintain quality control, and keep stakeholders aligned across dozens of active projects, including the new 83,000-square-foot Mays Business School building. With teams and reviewers spread across the country, the university needed a single source of truth for "As-Designed" versus "As-Built" conditions that everyone could access without traveling to the site.

Reconstruct was selected because it turns reality capture from a drone, 360-degree camera, or laser scan into a realistic, measurable model of as-built conditions that can be overlaid directly with design drawings and BIM models. That side-by-side comparison gives Texas A&M's team an easy way to verify installed work against design intent and catch discrepancies early, all from a browser.

Managing hundreds of simultaneous construction projects, including new builds and renovations, made it difficult for Texas A&M to maintain consistent quality control and progress documentation across its portfolio. With a $1.5 billion pipeline of work running through 2027, the university needed a scalable way to verify as-built conditions against design intent on every project, not just a handful.

Coordinating stakeholders who were not physically on site added another layer of difficulty. Without a shared, measurable model of current site conditions, remote reviewers had to rely on secondhand updates rather than being able to independently verify progress, which slowed decision-making and made it harder to catch discrepancies between design and installation early.

Before adopting Reconstruct, Texas A&M's project teams relied on in-person site walks and traditional photo documentation to track construction progress across its large, geographically dispersed portfolio of projects. Confirming as-built conditions against design drawings meant physically visiting each site, which was difficult to do consistently given the volume of concurrent work in the university's construction pipeline.

Because site visits and static photos couldn't easily be compared against BIM models or shared in real time with stakeholders located outside College Station, project managers had limited ability to give remote reviewers timely, verifiable visibility into how construction was actually progressing against what was designed.

Using Reconstruct, Texas A&M's construction team can now complete weekly site documentation in under an hour, a task that previously demanded far more time and coordination across its large portfolio of projects. That efficiency lets the team keep pace with quality control and progress monitoring across dozens of concurrent builds and renovations.

Reconstruct's measurable, as-built models give stakeholders nationwide 24/7 access to project progress, so reviewers no longer need to be on site to confirm how construction compares to the design. Sub-inch alignment accuracy allows the team to resolve conflicts between "As-Designed" and "As-Built" conditions with precision, catching issues before they become costly rework.

The platform also produces complete as-built documentation that supports facility management long after construction wraps, and it strengthens coordination between design and installation teams throughout the life of a project. As Chase Miller, Construction Project Manager at Texas A&M, put it, his team logs into Reconstruct every week, if not every day, because it gives stakeholders across the country 24/7 access to changes on site.

Texas A&M University is managing a $1.5 billion pipeline of construction projects through 2027, spanning new builds and renovations across its College Station campus, including the 83,000-square-foot Mays Business School facility completed in November 2024.