# How NOVO Construction uses OpenSpace

**95%**: “Using OpenSpace reduced the time to capture, upload and map imagery by 95%”

As published on [openspace.ai](https://www.openspace.ai/resources/case-studies/how-openspace-delivers-faster-more-complete-documentation-to-novo-construction/), March 2020. Captured by usedby on 2026-10-16.

- Company: [NOVO Construction](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/novo-construction.md)
- Tool: [OpenSpace](https://www.usedby.ai/tools/openspace.md)
- Industry: [Construction](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/industry/construction.md)

## What the story says

NOVO Construction, a general contractor, uses OpenSpace Capture with a 360 camera mounted on a hard hat to record job sites, with images automatically placed on project plans by date. Project engineers use the imagery for site documentation and for side-by-side comparisons with clients and architects.

Summary written by usedby from the source page, in English. The figures are those of OpenSpace and NOVO Construction, not ours.

> Using OpenSpace reduced the time to capture, upload and map imagery by 95%, freeing up PEs to complete other work.

- **100X**: “100X more images”
- **5 hours per week**: “5 hours per week”

> With the time savings we see with OpenSpace, we can now document all active areas of the project daily.
>
> Tyler Rohde, Project Engineer

Source: [openspace.ai](https://www.openspace.ai/resources/case-studies/how-openspace-delivers-faster-more-complete-documentation-to-novo-construction/), captured 2026-10-16.

> When I saw our first AI-generated report, it was pretty much exactly what I would have put together by hand—just without the hours it used to take.
>
> Grace Arrison, Project Engineer

Source: [openspace.ai](https://www.openspace.ai/resources/case-studies/novo-construction/), captured 2026-10-08.

## What usedby checked

We compared the story with its live page on 2026-10-16.

- Checked: the figure 95% is printed word for word on the page, near the name of NOVO Construction.
- Checked: the passage quoted above is copied word for word from the page, near the name of NOVO Construction.
- Checked: each number in our summary is printed on the page.
- Checked: the publication date is read from the page’s own metadata, never guessed.
- Checked: NOVO Construction uses OpenSpace. Confirmed line. Latest check across sources: 2026-10-16.
- Not checked: the result itself. We quote it; we did not measure it.

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