Construction World June 2022

Every construction project (big or small) has many role players who need to see the site to know what's happening. Until now, the only options were to take hundreds of pictures with no context of location, or video calling someone from the site. Now, OpenSpace is opening a whole new world. REALITY CAPTURE IS TRANSFORMING CONSTRUCTION

Liza Stewart from Agile Business Technology using OpenSpace on a construction site.

C ase studies in the UK have shown up to 50% savings on travel expenses. Imagine checking in on your site from the comfort of your office or even your home. No need to catch red-eye fl ights or l ive in expensive hotels – simply ask someone to take a walk and you can virtually visit the site that same day. Anyone on site can strap on a camera, connect their phone, start recording, and upload the footage to Openspace.ai after they've walked the site. From there, OpenSpace will do the heavy l ifting – using artificial Intell igence, computer vision, 3D reconstruction and machine learning, the user's position is plotted on the floor plan and 360° images are generated. By simply cl icking on the dots on the screen, you can move around as you please and see the site as if you're right there. Not only can you have a 360° vision of your site but with the additional features such as Spl it View and Field Notes you can compare the site to previous walkthroughs and even download a PDF report with the location and time of any field notes taken. Best of all , this processing happens in

less than an hour – you can know what's happening on site without delay. Using 360° images to document the jobsite allows teams to collaborate better and makes it easier to do qual ity control and inspections to help identify safety hazards, and can even be leveraged as a point of reference following project completion to assist owners and facil ities teams. The construction industry is undergoing radical change, and OpenSpace bel ieves the future has never been brighter. Artificial intell igence, computer vision, 3D scanning, and other technologies are rapidly evolving, bringing unprecedented opportunities to those will ing to embrace them. OpenSpace is the leader in automated 360° jobsite capture and AI analytics. Customers choose OpenSpace to quickly and easily capture a complete visual record of the jobsite which provides teams with a single source of truth that increases coordination, drives accountabil ity, and simpl ifies dispute resolution. 

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