How Provident Made Progress Tracking
More Accurate with OpenSpace360 Photo Documentation That’s Automatically Mapped to Project Plans
Enables the GC to See How Areas Are Progressing from Week to Week

Goal: Improve Photo Documentation
Processes to Track Progress More
Effectively
Dallas-based

wasProvident decided to test OpenSpace on a residential,

looking for a better way to collect and store jobsite

300,000-square-foot project in Tulsa, Okla., and started

photo documentation. The company’s Vice President

using it just as they were starting to pour the podium.

of Operations, Blake Pearce, had been pitched by

It’s enabled Dallas-based team members to keep closer

construction
occasions,

Provident

GeneralStrategy: Use OpenSpace to AutomaticallyCalculate Percent Completes for Key
Tradesdocumenting

buttheContractors

companies

featuresdidn’tonmultipletabs on the project, which is especially useful during theseem

robustpandemic when the ability to travel has been curtailed.

enough to constitute a huge improvement over manual
documentation.

Provident also piloted OpenSpace’s Progress Tracking
feature, which works via AI classifiers to recognize

After researching 360 photo documentation solutions

framing, drywall, insulation and other items and compareand finding OpenSpace, Pearce liked that it was designed

progressto let construction firms capture sites using their own

completes. After comparing the OpenSpace data to

betweencapturestogenerate

percent

preferred process or cadence. A Project Engineer would
simply strap a camera to their hard hat and walk—andthey could walk the entire site or focus on specific areas,at the team’s discretion.
But it wasn’t just photos that caught Pearce’s attention.
“It was where the software was headed with automatedprogress tracking and other features,” he said.

[Progress Tracking] allows us
to communicate quickly with
subcontractors and elevatecertain items.”
Blake Pearce , Director of Operations

drone imagery that was simultaneously used to document
how much of the framing had been installed on the top

100X

floor, it was clear that OpenSpace’s technology washighly accurate.

It’s nice to see the status ofwhere everything is without
putting my feet on the ground.”

10X

MORE COMPLETE
DOCUMENTATIONFASTER

THAN MANUAL CAPTURE

Damian Millisor, Project Manager“Having real-time numbers to justify a hunch or gut
feeling is so valuable. It allows us to communicate quickly

ins weren’t as far along as he expected. “Withoutwith subcontractors and elevate certain items,” Pearce

OpenSpace, I might not see it until the next time I’msaid. “If you track the progress of framing, which is in theup there weeks later,” he said, “or I wouldn’t see it atcritical path on 99% of projects, you’ll obviously have aall.”good idea of whether or not you’re on schedule.”•Expedited insurance claim process: After strayfireworks sparked a fire on the roof of the building,Results: Faster Detection of Quality
Issues; Expedited Insurance Claim

Provident produced OpenSpace captures toshow the insurance adjuster exactly what it had
looked like three days prior. Within a week of thePearce typically reviews two or three construction

event, they were allowed to start cleaning up

technology applications each week but only moves tothe area because the adjuster was comfortable

fully implement one or two a year, and this select groupwith the documentation. On a different project

now includes OpenSpace. Now that Provident hasthat sustained water damage in New Orleans, thesigned an enterprise agreement, it’s planning to deploy

investigation period has gone on for two months,

OpenSpace on a range of product types, including anleading to delays.

upcoming 136-unit, single-family for-rent project.
•Time savings on travel: Project Manager Damian

To date, OpenSpace has had a strong impact in theMillisor anticipates that OpenSpace can reduce

following areas:

the need for him to be on-site as frequently, which
is important since he oversees multiple projects•

Improved quality processes: When Provident’s

at any given time. “It’s nice to see the status of

Director of Field Operations, Andrew Gibson, calls

where everything is without putting my feet on thesuperintendents toward the end of the day to checkground,” he said.

in, he can click through OpenSpace documentation(which is automatically mapped to the project plans)as they talk. In this way, he’s spotted quality issues
as well as cases where MEP work or HVAC rough-