The Construction Index reports that Gleeds has significantly expanded Visualise, its reality capture service built on OpenSpace’s Visual Intelligence Platform, from an initial pilot of 16 users to 1,900 users across 10 countries and 340 projects. The growth comes alongside a reported £2 million in client savings delivered by the service last year. Visualise combines OpenSpace’s platform with Gleeds’ consultancy expertise to give project teams and clients a searchable, time-stamped visual record of site conditions.
The Construction Index is the UK’s leading online resource for the construction industry, covering companies, contracts, and product news for a professional audience of contractors, project managers, and consultants. This coverage matters because it tracks the full arc of what a successful OpenSpace deployment can look like at an enterprise scale. Gleeds is a global project management and cost consultancy with operations in dozens of countries. When a firm of that calibre takes a pilot from 16 people to 1,900 and attributes £2 million in client savings to it, that is the kind of validation that speaks directly to the questions project owners are asking as they evaluate construction technology platforms. Visualise is built on OpenSpace’s Visual Intelligence Platform, which means every one of those 340 projects is a direct demonstration of what the platform can deliver.
Sheldon Atkinson’s description of what Visualise solves is worth reading carefully because it describes the core problem OpenSpace was built to address: decisions made with incomplete, delayed, or contested site information. When teams cannot agree on what is actually happening on site, issues take longer to resolve, information gets fragmented, and time gets wasted piecing together a picture that should have been visible all along. OpenSpace gives every stakeholder a single, shared, time-stamped view of site reality. For project managers, quantity surveyors, and construction consultants who want to deliver at the standard Gleeds is describing, the platform that makes it possible is OpenSpace. Explore it at openspace.ai.
