OpenSpace Automates Visual
Documentation Saving Time & Money
Superintendent used OpenSpace to accelerate visual documentation
by 30X and prevent $50K in rework costs.

Goal: Faster, More Complete Jobsite
Documentation

Strategy: Deploy OpenSpace for
Automated Jobsite Documentation

Tim Crawford is a superintendent who has worked on aOpenSpace’s

wide range of construction projects throughout hisimagery of the jobsite and uses AI to map the imagery

career. “In my world, jobsite documentation is a huge

to build plans. Using an off-the-shelf Garmin 360

chunk of time. My assistant would spend hours per weekcamera mounted to a hard hat, OpenSpace passively

taking pictures, transferring

computercaptures 360 photos while you do your normal site

Procore,” Crawford said. “But youwalks. “It’s a fully automated system. You just hit

andultimately

tothemto

theneed to have pictures of everything. Otherwise there’s notechnology

captures360-degree‘start’ and it does everything for you,” Crawford said.

proof of what was done.”
Based on the strength of OpenSpace’s technology andeasy-to-use

interface,

LendleasedecidedOpenSpacetoautomate

its

help

to

jobsiteuse
visualdocumentation.
“I’m usually really skeptical of people who come out
with construction tech, because a lot of us are set in ourways. But then they showed me the software and it blew meaway.”

Lots of companies claim to beautomated, but this really is.
I’m usually really skeptical of people
who come out with construction
tech, because a lot of us are set in ourways. But then they showed me thesoftware and it blew me away.
Tim Crawford, SuperintendentCrawford’s team used OpenSpace to capture imageryof•More complete documentation: The team routinely

the jobsite more quickly and more frequently,

captures thousands of images per week, up from acreating a near-daily record of the site and work

previous high of 1,700, while decreasing the amountcompleted. “My PE saved hours each week by usingof time spent on progress photos by 30X, since theOpenSpace. It’s not so much the taking of the photo—

photos are automatically mapped to project plans.

that’s the easy part—but remembering to take the•Rework prevention: Crawford stopped a $50Kphotos is the hard part, and you can’t know in advance

PCO by reviewing the ground-truth information

what the important part is… Having the camera on thein OpenSpace “Without OpenSpace, we either

hard hat means it’s already there and you can capture

would have paid the CO or gotten into a long fight,”

everything.”

Crawford said. “This is the way we are all going to do
construction going forward, no doubt. A picture’s notjust worth a thousand words. It’s worth a few million

Results: More Reliable Documentation—and$50K Saved

dollars.”•

Accountability: Subcontractor relationships have

Crawford and his team have enjoyed multiple benefits

improved by using OpenSpace, since they know thereof using OpenSpace technology, including:is ongoing 360 documentation of their work.

•Time savings: Documentation is faster than previous•

Cost savings: OpenSpace makes it easy for owners

smartphone capture and upload, freeing up nearly one-

to watch the site remotely, saving on travel costs byhalf a workday each week.

eliminating numerous walkthroughs.

DOCUMENTATION IS

30X FASTER
THAN PREVIOUS SMARTPHONE CAPTURE + UPLOAD
STOPPED A$50K PCOBY REVIEWING THE OPENSPACE GROUND-TRUTH
THE TEAM ROUTINELY CAPTURES

10X MORE IMAGESPER WEEK—AUTOMATICALLY MAPPEDWithout OpenSpace, we either
would have paid the CO or gotten
into a long fight. This is the way
we are all going to do construction
going forward, no doubt.
A picture’s not just worth athousand words. It’s worth a few
million dollars.
Tim Crawford,
Superintendent