LONDON — July 2, 2026 — L&Q, one of the UK’s largest housing associations with a portfolio of over 105,000 homes, has signed a three-year agreement with OpenSpace, deploying the Visual Intelligence Platform across its active development portfolio. The partnership reflects L&Q’s commitment to improving quality assurance, dispute resolution and construction information management across its residential development programmes.
A New Standard for Construction Information
As a developer and long-term owner, L&Q’s relationship to construction information extends well beyond practical completion. The homes being built today will be owned, managed and lived in for decades, which means the quality of what gets built, and the evidence of how it was built, matters long after the last trade has left the site. Across an active development portfolio spanning multiple sites and contractors, having a reliable, time-stamped record of construction at every stage has become essential: for quality assurance, for resolving queries with contractors from a position of clear evidence, and for meeting the information obligations that come with owning residential buildings. Legislation such as the Building Safety Act 2022 has sharpened this further, requiring developers to maintain a record of how Higher-Risk Buildings were constructed throughout their operational life.
“Good construction information isn’t just about compliance. It’s about being able to make better decisions, resolve issues faster and maintain an accurate record of what was built. OpenSpace gives us a visual record we can trust. For our Higher-Risk Buildings that includes meeting our obligations under the Building Safety Act, but the benefits run across everything we deliver.”
– Gopal Gomathinayagam, BIM Manager, L&Q
A Better Way to Work on Site
Before adopting OpenSpace, maintaining consistent visual records across multiple active sites could be challenging. Reliance on a previous solution had created limitations in image quality, upload reliability and workflow consistency. After a thorough review of the market, L&Q selected OpenSpace on the basis of its ease of use, speed of capture, image quality and proven track record at scale.
The difference in day-to-day experience has been immediate. A full site walk can be completed without adding hours to the day, with imagery processed quickly and available across teams. For L&Q’s management and commercial teams, that means meaningful oversight of multiple active sites without constant travel, and a shared, up-to-date picture of progress that reduces the back-and-forth when questions arise.
“OpenSpace has genuinely changed the way our site teams work. The speed of capture means it fits naturally into a site manager’s day rather than adding to it, and the quality of the imagery gives everyone, from the site team to the commercial team, a clear, shared picture of where the project stands. When questions come up about progress or quality, we have the evidence right there.”
– Ian Simpson, Senior Site Manager, L&Q
Applied Across the Full Construction Lifecycle
L&Q is deploying OpenSpace across active developments including Greenwich, Plumstead, Barking Riverside, three schemes in Merton being delivered on behalf of the London Borough of Merton, and its Winsford development[1] . The platform is being used at every stage of construction, from pre-construction documentation and enabling works through to pre-handover quality inspections.
Key use cases include:
- Demolition and pre-construction documentation – capturing existing site conditions to support planning, logistics and risk mitigation, including UXO and enabling works.
- Progress documentation and audit trail – weekly 360° capture across active developments creates a time-stamped visual record of build progress accessible to all departments.
- Quality assurance and defect management – supporting pre-handover inspections, reducing revisit requirements and improving right-first-time delivery.
- Dispute avoidance and evidence-based resolution – providing clear visual evidence to resolve queries with contractors and internal teams quickly, without lengthy back-and-forth.
- Health and safety oversight – enhancing remote site visibility for leadership and H&S teams without the need for additional travel.
- Training and best practice sharing – using captured imagery to support site manager training and share examples of good practice across the portfolio.
Looking ahead, L&Q is also exploring OpenSpace’s Progress Tracking capabilities to further automate and evidence delivery performance across its portfolio.
A Partnership Aligned on Standards
The agreement reflects a shared commitment to raising the quality and transparency of information across L&Q’s development programmes, from individual site walks to portfolio-wide oversight.
“L&Q’s decision to adopt OpenSpace reflects a shift we’re seeing across the residential development sector, where Visual Intelligence is becoming fundamental to how developers manage information assurance and regulatory compliance. With the Building Safety Act raising the bar on what needs to be evidenced and how, we’re proud to be supporting L&Q in building the kind of continuous, reliable visual record their projects require, both for statutory purposes and for the quality and efficiency of how they deliver.”
– Tamas Borodi, Managing Director UK, Ireland, Nordics & Eastern Europe, OpenSpace
About L&Q
L&Q believes passionately that people’s health, security and happiness depend on where they live. It houses around 250,000 people in more than 105,000 homes, primarily across London, the south east and north west of England – but they’re more than just a registered charitable housing association. Their purpose is simple – to provide social homes and landlord services that everyone can be proud of. This ensures they remain truly focused on what matters most to residents.
About OpenSpace
OpenSpace is the Visual Intelligence Platform for builders, helping them reduce risk and increase efficiency. Powered by Spatial AI, its image-first platform streamlines coordination between field and office teams, providing reality-based, real-time intelligence for faster decisions and fewer delays. Customers like Suffolk, Comfort Systems, and Tishman Speyer rely on OpenSpace to gain critical insights from their sites, avoid destructive investigations, and finish projects ahead of schedule. To date, general contractors, trades, and owners have relied on OpenSpace to analyze imagery on more than 100,000 construction projects across 131 countries, representing over 69 billion square feet. To learn more, visit www.openspace.ai and follow us on LinkedIn.
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