The challenge:
At The Emerald Apartments in Knoxville, Holland Construction Services faced a familiar challenge: how do you track every MEP system in four buildings, 40 units each, without missing the details that cause costly rework?
At the Randolph County Care Center renovation, Holland faced a different challenge: how to uncover concealed conditions and keep the facility running safely without disruptive exploratory demo or constant site visits. The stakes were high – active operations couldn’t stop, yet design teams still needed an exact view of conditions to avoid costly surprises.
The solution:
By combining Insta360 X4 cameras, DJI Mavic 3 Enterprise drones and DroneDeploy software on both projects, Holland is changing how construction problems are solved before they even happen.
- 360° imaging captures hidden conditions and protects against warranty disputes.
- Drone mapping delivers 2D and 3D site views so progress and precision aren’t left to guesswork.
- Cloud-based collaboration means everyone – owners, architects, engineers – can see the same reality, instantly, without traveling to the site.
Together, these tools reduced site visits, cut down exploratory demo and allowed design teams to respond faster – all while strengthening trust with owners.
And these tools are not just project-specific, but are forming the baseline approach Holland intends to scale across upcoming projects.
“I didn’t realize how essential this tool would become. It’s helped us avoid issues hidden behind walls and improved communication with owners and management.” – Nate Meuser, Project Engineer, Holland Construction Services
The results
At The Emerald Apartments, every unit’s MEP systems were documented before drywall, enabling issues like missed outlets to be resolved in days, not weeks. The result: fewer change orders, cleaner turnovers and accurate as-builts for future maintenance.
At the Randolph County Care Center, each floor was captured in just 1-1.5 hours, reducing exploratory demo, accelerating design responses and keeping operations safe during renovation.
Across both projects, the results were the same:
- Faster design responses and fewer surprises
- Reduced change orders and demo work
- Stronger trust with owners through transparent, visual documentation
The future
For Holland Construction Services, this isn’t a one-off win – it’s the new baseline. By pairing immersive visuals with cloud collaboration, Holland is setting a company-wide standard for reality capture, ensuring that future projects benefit from the same speed, precision, and owner confidence.
The company-wide metrics prove the shift:
- 163 total projects in DroneDeploy, with 151 actively using capture
- 17,490 captures, including 6,013 aerial and 11,366 ground-based
- 3,453 analyses completed, ensuring conditions are evaluated instead of assumed
- 52,038 total views of captured content, showing widespread engagement by owners, architects, engineers, and internal teams
- A growing user base of 146 team members, including 63 pilots/uploaders and 33 analysts, driving adoption across the organization
- 2024 – 485 Flights
- 2025 (As of 9/24) – 395 Flights
- Lifetime flight log – 2364 Flights
By adopting DroneDeploy’s unified reality capture platform, Holland streamlined workflows, cut risk and delivered greater transparency to clients – demonstrating how modern construction technology drives efficiency and measurable ROI at every stage of the build.
Based on its successes with aerial and ground-based photo documentation so far, Holland is now moving toward a fully standardized reality capture program, positioning DroneDeploy as central to its future operations.