With 60% of its work in the healthcare sector, Kitchell is always looking for ways to reduce risk and be a more efficient partner to its stakeholders. The Phoenix-based company also wanted to improve its handoff process with hospital facilities departments, which usually aren’t involved in construction and are often left flying blind when issues…
Provident General Contractors was looking for a better way to collect and store job site photo documentation when it discovered OpenSpace, but it wasn’t just documentation capabilities that caught their attention. “It was where the software was headed with automated progress tracking and other features,” said Blake Pearce, the company’s VP-Operations. Provident decided to test…
A specialty drywall contractor based in Chicago, RG Construction struggled with manual progress tracking because of how onerous it was. The company knew that reliable progress tracking would deliver several benefits, including facilitation of on-time payments and better adherence to lean construction principles, and wanted to explore technologies that could make it possible in a…
Shimizu Corporation has signed an enterprise partnership agreement with OpenSpace to use its 360° photo documentation and analytics platform in combination with its own construction data and expertise to enhance remote management of its construction sites. OpenSpace, a venture-backed company based in San Francisco, uses computer vision and artificial intelligence (AI) to create next-generation construction…
Global design-build firm Unispace was looking for innovative ways to share progress on construction sites, which became especially crucial with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Company employees were already well-versed in remote collaboration, with North American project team members often distributed throughout the U.S., but Unispace’s leadership wanted a way to ensure that every…
Silicon Valley-based SC Builders saw construction grind to a halt in Spring 2020 as the global pandemic hit. Even when restrictions started to ease, some clients were still adamant that no one be allowed on-site who didn’t absolutely need to be there. To keep projects on track while minimizing the number of people allowed on…
Have you ever had subcontractors show up to a job site only to be turned away because the site wasn’t ready for them? If so, you know there is nothing more crucial to a project’s success than progress tracking. But it’s also one of the hardest things to get right. Many GCs today are still…
Skanska is a construction and development firm with a global footprint. Its mission is to help heal, transport, entertain, and energize communities. From hospitals to stadiums, airports to corporate headquarters, and power plants to tunnels and bridges, Skanska leads in building the important buildings and infrastructure people rely on. As part of Skanska’s commitment to…
Today, we are thrilled to announce that OpenSpace customers have collectively captured more than three billion square feet of construction job site imagery. If that sounds like a lot… well, it is! Three billion square feet is equal to about 1,097 Empire State Buildings—or the total size of Brooklyn and Manhattan combined. What makes us…
