In a video case study published by Digital Construction Plus, Roman Baran, senior manager of digital construction at Canary Wharf Group, describes how OpenSpace has transformed the way his team manages progress on Wood Wharf, one of Europe’s largest urban regeneration projects. The project comprises nearly 4,000 residential units across 15 towers, and Canary Wharf is now tracking up to 200 components per building using OpenSpace Track, with every unit’s status updated after each weekly scan. “The biggest shift is going from gut feeling to objective data,” says Baran.
The case study is a testament to what sustained investment in visual intelligence delivers across major construction programmes. Canary Wharf Group first tested OpenSpace eight years ago and has since captured six million site photos, building an unbroken visual record of how Wood Wharf has progressed. That continuity of data is what makes the shift Baran describes possible: instead of relying on manual progress reports and subjective site walk impressions, the team now sees the actual status of every unit after a weekly scan. OpenSpace Track analyses the captured imagery and turns it into progress intelligence, letting Canary Wharf track up to 200 components per building from first fix through to final finish and facade.
Wood Wharf is one of the most complex residential developments in Europe, and the OpenSpace deployment there illustrates what the platform delivers at scale. Across 15 towers and thousands of units, OpenSpace is helping Canary Wharf move from qualitative assessments to quantified progress data, replacing intuition with evidence at every stage of delivery. For developers and contractors managing similarly large programmes, the message is clear: objective, continuously updated site data changes how teams make decisions. Teams interested in how OpenSpace Track can support progress monitoring on large residential or mixed-use projects can learn more at openspace.ai.
By: Justin Stanton
