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Tuesday, August 17 2021 - 11:00
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EEI Corporation Signs Enterprise Agreement with OpenSpace for Automated Construction Site Photo-Documentation
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 17, 2021 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/--

- Manila-based construction company will use OpenSpace's 360 degree site 
documentation and analysis platform to improve collaboration among onsite and 
offsite personnel

OpenSpace ( 
https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=3261321-1&h=2987792190&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.openspace.ai%2F&a=OpenSpace 
), the global leader in AI-powered 360 degree construction photo-documentation 
and analysis, today announced a new enterprise agreement with EEI Corporation, 
a top-rated international construction and engineering company based in the 
Philippines.

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EEI is currently utilizing OpenSpace on more than a dozen projects, including 
the Grand Hyatt Manila Residences – South Tower, The Seasons Residences, and 
the SMDC Light 2 Residencies facilitated through Digiscript, a regional seller 
partner based in the Philippines. Other projects using OpenSpace's automated 
construction documentation technology include infrastructure and 
electromechanical work.

EEI continually pursues new ways to improve project delivery and exceed client 
expectations. As part of this goal, the company began exploring different ways 
to improve collaboration between onsite builders and offsite subject matter 
experts—a mission that became especially important amid travel and mobility 
restrictions during the pandemic. 

"We thoroughly evaluated several products that were very similar to OpenSpace. 
In the end, we felt that their solution and its features had the best fit with 
our Virtual Design and Construction (VDC) Roadmap," said Glenn F. Villaseñor, 
senior vice president for Business Transformation at EEI. "In addition to 
enabling our desire to bring the jobsite to our people who are 'off-site,' it 
was also compelling to let our field operations teams explore the use case for 
3D models in their work. It was quite helpful that OpenSpace's technology had 
built-in integrations with our existing suite of VDC tools, as well."

OpenSpace enables remote collaboration from anywhere in the world by 
automatically creating a "digital replica" of a construction site through 360 
degree photo documentation. A builder simply attaches a small camera to their 
hardhat, marks their starting location on the floor plan in the OpenSpace app, 
and then walks the site as normal. OpenSpace automates image capture and, once 
the imagery is uploaded, stitches it together to create a navigable "Google 
Street View"-style digital replica of the site. Collaborators can oversee and 
manage progress over time, compare site images to the BIM, and make Field Notes 
to flag specific issues, among other features.

"Collaboration using OpenSpace can potentially span various processes, from 
progress reporting, to quality control, to safety and security, to the handling 
of other types of project delivery issues," said Norman K. Macapagai, executive 
vice president for Construction Division at EEI. "We look forward to realizing 
more value from the use of this technology in the months ahead."

About OpenSpace
Founded in 2017, OpenSpace is a San Francisco-based tech company that is on a 
mission to bring new levels of transparency and objectivity to construction. 
Our solutions combine simple 360 degree cameras, computer vision and AI to make 
it incredibly easy to capture a complete visual record of the jobsite, share it 
via the cloud and track progress. To date, our customers have used our platform 
to capture more than four billion square feet of imagery from active 
construction projects across thousands of sites in over fifty countries.

About EEI Corporation
A member of the Yuchengco Group of Companies, EEI is one of the leading 
construction companies in the Philippines, celebrating 90 years of business in 
2021. EEI has a broad range of construction and engineering services, with 
expertise in the construction of infrastructure, buildings, and industrial and 
electromechanical facilities. The company takes pride in its quadruple-A rating 
as a General Engineering Contractor, the highest rating for contractors issued 
by the Philippine Contractors Accreditation Board (PCAB) under the Department 
of Trade and Industry. The company stays abreast with the latest developments 
in technology, materials engineering, and construction methodologies while 
including its own innovation in the application of its work, making it a 
preferred provider of construction services to global engineering, procurement, 
and construction companies. EEI Corporation is a publicly listed and traded 
corporation in the Philippine Stock Exchange.

Contact: openspace@bulleitgroup.com 

SOURCE:  OpenSpace