The Texas A&M University’s Research and Innovation Building A (RIB-A) is a landmark $260 million facility designed to anchor public and private research and development on campus. This 150,000-square-foot building will house state-of-the-art office and lab spaces for critical fields like engineering, health sciences, and aerospace. Coda was engaged to implement a proactive design review, aiming to identify and resolve design issues before they could impact the project’s budget and schedule.

Education

Design Coordination

The El Paso VA Health Care Center, a 492,000-square-foot, six-story medical facility, serves over 54,000 veterans with state-of-the-art care. Tasked with delivering the project under a strict timeline, the design-build team, including Clark Construction, SmithGroup, and HKS, faced the challenge of integrating specialized medical and building systems under meticulous quality control. Coda integrated proactive design review processes to minimize risks before they impacted the schedule or budget.

Healthcare

Design Coordination

The relocation of a 260,000-pound baggage handling bridge was a critical component of the Terminal B North Concourse expansion at Bush Intercontinental Airport. With the airport in full operation, it was essential to get the move right on the first try, with complete certainty. Coda was brought in to laser scan, providing the precision and confidence needed to execute the move flawlessly.

Transportation

Existing Conditions

Washington D.C.’s historic McMillan Reservoir is being transformed into the vibrant 25-acre Reservoir District through a $720 million redevelopment project. The project faced extraordinary subsurface challenges, from massive underground filtration cells to century-old infrastructure with fragmented and unreliable documentation. Coda was engaged to provide comprehensive analysis, integrating multiple data sources with advanced drone monitoring to guide the project forward with confidence.

Real Estate

Underground Coordination

For the new Western State Forensic Hospital project, general contractor Clark Construction faced the challenge of safely planning and executing complex underground utility work on a historical, active campus. Because existing utility records were fragmented and unreliable, Clark partnered with Coda to navigate the underground risks.

Healthcare

Underground Coordination

The Noman M. Cole Jr. Pollution Control Plant (NMCPCP) is an award-winning facility in Fairfax County, VA, treating 40 million gallons of wastewater daily. When a critical need arose to upgrade 40 motor control centers and 18 distribution centers, the general contractor needed to execute the complex work without disrupting the plant’s continuous, peak performance. They engaged Coda as a trusted advisor to create a single source of truth and mitigate project risks through advanced modeling.

Government

Existing Conditions

This project encompassed a 222,000 square foot expansion and 218,000 square foot renovation at the Houston Airport, including enhancements to baggage handling areas, ticketing halls, security checkpoints, and roadway infrastructure. Coda was engaged to apply its design review services, enabling proactive technical review and ensuring constructability, compliance, and seamless system integration.

Transportation

Design Coordination

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport—one of the busiest in the world—undertook a major infrastructure enhancement with the Plane Train Tunnel West Extension. Given the risks associated with tunneling beneath an active airport and the critical importance of avoiding costly surprises, understanding the existing subsurface conditions was essential. Coda was brought on board to provide vital underground insights, helping mitigate potential conflicts and streamline the design process.

Transportation

Underground Coordination

The Alamo Visitor Center and Museum will transform the historic Crockett (built in 1882) and Woolworth (built in 1921) buildings in San Antonio into a state-of-the-art facility, showcasing the complete 300-year history of the iconic Alamo site. The building exterior and select interior structural elements will be preserved, so Coda documented the existing conditions of the historic buildings to ensure smooth integration with the newly planned space.​

Sports/Entertainment

Existing Conditions

1333 M Street is a mixed-use development in Washington, D.C.’s Capitol Riverfront neighborhood. For meticulous attention to code, compliance, and life safety requirements, as well as placement of architectural, structural, and mechanical systems during the design phase, the developer called Coda.

Real Estate

Design Coordination

Developer Foulger Pratt acquired 1425 NY Avenue in Washington, DC with plans to create 243 Class A+, luxury residential units. Prior to the project start, Foulger Pratt’s General Contractor called Coda to determine how best to approach the post-tensioned cables providing structural support for the building.

Real Estate

Existing Conditions

CNU’s Natomas Medical Center is a new 14-story medical complex and teaching hospital that includes 400 beds, dormitories, a childcare center, senior residential care facility, administrative offices, and commercial and retail spaces. Coda identified areas of risk in the design drawings so that changes could be incorporated before bid day, ensuring the bid was as accurate as possible.

Healthcare

Design Coordination

The Riverwalk San Diego project will include approximately 4,300 multifamily units, 152,000 square feet of retail and one million square feet of office space built atop an old golf club. To mitigate the many potential below-grade issues, the general contractor brought in Coda.

Sports/Entertainment

Underground Coordination

Amtrak’s Frederick Douglass Tunnel Program aims to replace the 150-year-old Baltimore & Potomac Tunnel—the largest bottleneck on the Northeast Corridor—with a new tunnel that will carry both Amtrak and Maryland Area Rail Commuter (MARC) trains. Coda provided a thorough analysis of all underground elements spanning the new, two-mile route.

Transportation

Underground Coordination

Monumental Sports Entertainment’s general contractor turned to Coda for the accurate documentation they needed for transformation of the 20,000-seat Capital One Arena and the adjacent 660,000 sq. ft. Gallery Place shopping center.

Sports/Entertainment

Existing Conditions

When Amtrak’s Ivy City train yard in Washington, D.C., needed 4 new maintenance and inspection tracks, 3 new service and cleaning tracks, and an upgrade of existing high speed rail tracks, they called Coda to accurately map underground obstacles.

Transportation

Underground Coordination

UCSD’s new Pepper Canyon West Living & Learning Neighborhood (PCWLLN) is a more than $300 million project to construct two mixed-use towers housing more than 1,400 student units. The University’s accelerated schedule required overlapping design and construction, so they called Coda to identify issues before they became problems.

Higher Education

Design Coordination

A United States Government entity needed to convert laser scan data of a critical asset into an an intelligent, rich, functional 3D model—within a highly secure environment. Because they required specialized digital services with stringent physical and cybersecurity protocols, they chose Coda.

Government

Existing Conditions

A leading healthcare system working with an experienced Designer and General Contractor needed to ensure future patient safety and a seamless transition from design to construction for two new state-of-the-art inpatient facilities.

Healthcare

Design Coordination

A leading nonprofit healthcare system set out to improve their facilities operations and maintenance to become more efficient, more effective, and provide better patient care. Coda’s assessment would become a basis for alignment and consistency of data for new construction projects and existing facilities, providing improved outcomes for operations, maintenance, sustainability, and compliance initiatives.

Healthcare

Facility Data Strategy