Digital Construction Plus reports that Gleeds is rolling out Visualise, its reality capture service built on OpenSpace’s platform, following £2 million in client savings generated last year. What started as a 16-person pilot four years ago now reaches over 1,900 users across 10 countries, with more than 50,000 site observations, issues and actions captured against live project records. Gleeds is now embedding Visualise more broadly into its core project delivery model as part of its service innovation programme.
Digital Construction Plus is the UK’s leading media brand for technology in construction, covering digital tools, platforms, and practices for a professional audience of contractors, project managers, consultants, and engineers. Coverage from DC+ reaches decision-makers who are actively evaluating how to modernise their own project delivery. What makes this article particularly valuable is the specificity of the proof: a live rollout announcement with hard numbers, not an aspirational case study. The progression from 16 users to 1,900, the 50,000 captured observations, the £2 million in savings, and the expansion into project types as varied as listed building refurbishments and the Bicentennial Schools Programme in Peru are the numbers that move procurement conversations from curiosity to commitment. And all of it runs on OpenSpace.
What Sheldon Atkinson describes as “standardising, digitalising and continuously improving service delivery” is a template other consultancies are watching. Gleeds has demonstrated that a phased, evidence-led rollout of OpenSpace, starting with a contained pilot and scaling from validated results, is a repeatable model. The £2 million in savings is not a one-off: it reflects what happens when site teams stop relying on fragmented, delayed information and start working from a single shared record of what is actually happening on site. For any organisation that has asked whether the investment in reality capture is justified, Gleeds has now provided a concrete, externally published answer. See what OpenSpace makes possible at openspace.ai.
By: Justin Stanton
