"construct models" is a perfectly correct and usable expression in written English.
It can be used to describe the process of building models or frameworks, either physical or theoretical, for a variety of applications. For example, "The engineering team was tasked with constructing models to accurately simulate the aerodynamic properties of an aircraft."
"We also have to construct models that will allow the doors to open.
Mature products have research databases to draw on to construct models and prices.
But when we construct models, we know what happened in the past; it guides our judgments.
His work refined the use of radio waves and radar to observe the topography of the high seas and construct models of their dynamics.
The American Society of Civil Engineers will lead teams of children in a workshop to construct models of suspension bridges using cardboard, string and paper clips.
Working with a spatial ecologist, we used the data to construct models that predicted which areas would be most intensively used by bearded vulture.
It's a bit trickier, but also perfectly possible, to construct models in which high rates of inequality — by, for example, constricting saving and investment (especially human-capital investment) among the poor — lead to lower rates of growth.
There is also a lot of conceptual photography, in particular the work of artists who like to construct models, or set up still life arrangements, or choreograph social situations with actors, much like a filmmaker, in order to photograph them.
The researchers said they used Canadian government data on pink salmon from 1970 to the present to construct models of fish abundance in the Broughton Archipelago, where the number of fish farms has risen sharply.
Parameters used to construct models were recorded as routine clinical examination (noninvasive) of symptomatic patients.
The diameter increments of a gun bore were measured to construct models used in the simulations.
