JLL Technologies and OpenSpace win bid to support PBS asset and
project management
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- OpenSpace, the
global leader in 360° jobsite capture and AI-powered analytics,
takes the role as the enterprise-wide image capture solution of
choice, alongside JLL Technologies, for the U.S. General Services
Administration's Public Buildings Service. PBS oversees a portfolio
of more than 8,000 buildings nationwide, providing work
environments for over a million Federal employees. PBS will use
OpenSpace Capture to support the management of assets and projects
throughout the planning, design, construction, operations, and
maintenance life cycle phases.
OpenSpace will be partnering with JLL Technologies on the
contract and providing program management support for the rollout
across all 11 GSA regions. JLL Technologies brings transformative
technology to organizations, like OpenSpace, with expertise in
providing a consistent data and innovation strategy. As the way
organizations utilize space shifts, JLL Technologies is uniquely
positioned to usher in a new way of thinking about real estate and
building, using technology to meet the ever-changing needs of
organizations.
As a part of this selection, OpenSpace is also working towards
authorization under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management
Program (FedRAMP), a government-wide security authorization program
for cloud-based services.
With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, PBS began to explore
ways to use technology to manage projects remotely. Following a
successful pilot, PBS sought an enterprise-wide solution and
selected JLL/T and OpenSpace as the provider of choice through
GSA's Multiple Award Schedule (MAS).
According to GSA's Statement of Objectives, the goal of the
program is to "implement a secure long-term Public Buildings
Service (PBS) enterprise-wide software solution that leverages
360-degree image capture technology and automatically correlates
those images and data to building drawings. Support communication
and collaboration between stakeholders and have the capability to
be integrated with other PBS applications. Support both Program
delivery and GSA's long-term management of assets."
Even as in-person work resumes in many areas, builders see the
benefit of technology to save time and money: in a survey conducted
by OpenSpace, 92% of community respondents stated that they would
continue allowing remote work for field teams either occasionally
or frequently.
"Simplifying the lives of builders and professionals in real
estate and construction is our main mission," said OpenSpace CEO
and co-founder Jeevan Kalanithi. "We're proud that OpenSpace was
selected as PBS's enterprise solution across the U.S. and are
excited for the opportunity to save the Government time and money
with an easy-to-use, complete documentation system."
PBS will leverage OpenSpace Capture, available through JLL
Technologies, to document site status and project progress for
buildings like computer centers, courthouses, laboratories,
offices, parking facilities, storage spaces, and warehouses
throughout the country. Users simply attach an off-the-shelf,
consumer 360° camera to their hardhat and walk the site as they
normally would. Once the video from the walk is uploaded to the
cloud, OpenSpace's computer vision technology stitches images
together and pins all the images to the floor plan, creating a
trusted visual record of site status.
"With experience working with OpenSpace on our projects, we're
confident in our ability to deliver strong results together through
our work with PBS," said Liz Van
Dyke, Head of Public Institutions, JLL Technologies. "With
our global expertise in construction and real estate management,
we'll support GSA in the rollout and use of OpenSpace's technology
across the entire portfolio, allowing PBS to realize maximum
value."
To learn more about OpenSpace's 360° image capture technology,
visit their website.
About JLL
JLL (NYSE: JLL) is a leading professional services firm that
specializes in real estate and investment management. JLL shapes
the future of real estate for a better world by using the most
advanced technology to create rewarding opportunities, amazing
spaces and sustainable real estate solutions for our clients, our
people and our communities. JLL is a Fortune 500 company with
annual revenue of $19.4 billion,
operations in over 80 countries and a global workforce of more than
102,000 as of June 30, 2022. JLL is
the brand name, and a registered trademark, of Jones Lang LaSalle
Incorporated. For further information, visit jll.com.
About OpenSpace
Founded in 2017, OpenSpace is an AI technology company on a
mission to bring new levels of transparency and efficiency to
construction and real estate. With our platform, builders
automatically capture a complete visual record of the jobsite,
providing visual data that increases coordination, drives
accountability, and simplifies dispute resolution. To date, our
customers have used OpenSpace to capture more than eleven billion
square feet of imagery from active construction projects across
thousands of sites in over ninety-one countries. Follow us on
LinkedIn.
Contact:
openspace@bulleitgroup.com
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