Microsoft's new corporate campus in Redmond, Washington, designed by LMN, NBBJ, WRNS Studio, and ZGF Architects, is being built with a bevy of digital technology tools.

Construction Dive reports that the massive construction project will bring up to 1.3 million square feet of new development to the company's historic corporate office campus. The build-out includes 17 new buildings, each of which will run between 180,000 and 220,000 square feet in size, a Microsoft press release reports. The project includes bringing upgraded accessibility features to the campus while also integrating the development with surrounding landscapes. Berger Partnership will be the lead landscape architect for the development in conjunction with OLIN.

All of this is being brought into being through a data-driven construction process that includes the use of an autonomous drone surveying system that makes weekly passes over the site to create high-accuracy GPS scans of the construction progress.

The surveys feed into "more than 100 building information models (BIM) that contain almost three million 3D building components," according to Construction Dive, and will provide "'quantifiable accountability,' or a true data-driven measure of progress, which is particularly helpful when evaluating pay applications and predicting project schedules, the four general contractors also use it to better manage their work and a tight timeline."

Skycatch, the drone image processing platform being used for the project, has performed similar services for the Foster + Partners-designed Apple campus in California, among other high-profile projects.