Fireside Chat: Concrete Frame Associates + OpenSpace
In this recorded fireside chat, OpenSpace’s Alex Brown (Account Executive II, Specialty Contractors) and Aaron Baker (Solutions Engineer) chat with Ryan Mazur (Manager, Frame Operations) from Concrete Frame Associates. Ryan describes how the company uses OpenSpace reality capture on its commercial high-rise and podium deck projects to document sites before concrete pours, minimize disputes, and avoid destructive investigations.
Established in 1991, Concrete Frame Associates provides extensive preconstruction services such as conceptual concrete frame building analysis and budgeting, value engineering, and scheduling assistance in Colorado, New Mexico, and Wyoming.
Watch this on-demand presentation to:
• Learn how Concrete Frame Associates rolled out OpenSpace and secured broad adoption of the technology.
• Understand the operational benefits of reality capture and ways it can help streamline workflows to improve efficiency.
• Discover how the company leverages OpenSpace Field Notes to improve coordination and communication and provide valuable documentation for change orders.
• Hear advice on how to get started with OpenSpace and ways to make the business case internally for reality capture.
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OpenSpace, the global leader in reality capture and AI-powered analytics, empowers construction and real estate companies of every size to digitally transform and create a 360° view of their built environment. Customers such as JLL, AECOM, and RG Construction have used OpenSpace to operate more efficiently and reduce risk, capturing more than 20 billion square feet of imagery from construction projects across thousands of sites in more than 93 countries.
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Chapters
Ch 1 01:34 About Concrete Frame Associates (CFA)
Ch 2 04:00 Challenges faced when construction starts before design is finished
Ch 3 04:51 Precise photo documentation for fixes, years later
Ch 4 06:16 CFA’s photo documentation process before OpenSpace
Ch 5 08:51 Easy to train, easy to use
Ch 6 09:35 How CFA uses Field Notes in OpenSpace
Ch 7 10:48 Field Notes and cost management
Ch 8 12:32 CFA’s advice for getting started
Ch 9 13:10 OpenSpace pays for itself
Ch 10 13:30 OpenSpace relieves the burden of taking (and finding!) hundreds of pictures
Ch 11 14:35 Proving costs for change orders