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Industry: Education

Document the build. Market the result.

Buildcam captures campus construction from the ground up: a time lapse for student engagement, a high-resolution archive for marketing, and a progress record for governing bodies. One camera covers all three.

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Building on campus

Campus construction answers to more people than the site team.

A campus build rarely moves at its own pace. Term dates, exam periods, and student intakes shape when trades can work and when parts of a site have to be handed back. A camera running through the whole program records how the schedule was actually met, so the decisions made around the academic calendar are documented rather than remembered.

Education projects answer to a wide group. Boards and finance committees want confidence that a build is on track. Donors who funded a new facility want to see it take shape. Students, staff, and the wider community have a stake in what is being built for them. A single record, viewable from any device, keeps all of them informed without a site visit.

The same footage serves two ends. Through the build it is a shareable progress record: a way to keep stakeholders close and mark each milestone as it lands. After handover it becomes a lasting archive of how the facility came to be, ready for the institution's own marketing, fundraising, and history.

TimelapseStudent engagement
24 MPArchive resolution
Sentinel OSShareable record
Under 1 hrInstall time

What it does on campus

Marketing, engagement, and governance from a single camera.

Marketing content for architects and builders

Iconic campus projects are portfolio pieces. Buildcam creates a timelapse and a high-resolution archive that architects and builders use in proposals, award submissions, and marketing material.

Student and community engagement

A new student accommodation block or sports facility is a tangible investment in the campus experience. A shareable timelapse lets students, staff, and parents watch it become real.

Institution progress reporting

Education institutions report to governing bodies and funding committees. Buildcam's timestamped record gives those committees accurate progress visibility without site visits or monthly photography runs.

Industry: Education

Questions about documenting campus construction.

The ones that come up most on education projects. The full FAQ lives in Resources.

Campus projects often move in stages that fit around term dates and exam periods, with work pausing while students are on site. A Buildcam runs continuously and captures each stage as it happens, so a quiet week reads as a quiet week and an active phase reads as an active phase. When work resumes, the record picks up where it left off. Nothing needs to be scheduled around the timetable at your end.
Donors and board members want to see the building they funded taking shape, not read another status paragraph. Sentinel OS gives you a timestamped record and an exportable timelapse you can drop into a board pack, a donor update, or a fundraising presentation. The footage shows genuine progress, which is more persuasive than a written summary. Refer to our pricing page for a full breakdown of our pricing.
A new library, sports hall, or accommodation block is a shared investment for students, staff, and families. A shareable timelapse and a 4K livestream let the community watch the building become real over the course of the project. That visibility turns a fenced-off site into something people feel connected to before the doors open.
Sentinel OS uses role-based access, so you decide who sees what. A facilities lead, a communications officer, and an external architect can each be given the view that suits their role. That keeps a live view of an occupied campus in the right hands while still allowing wider sharing of finished timelapse content when you choose to release it.
Many campus builds happen next to occupied buildings and active walkways, so the camera has to sit clear of daily foot traffic. A Buildcam is solar powered and connects over 4G or LTE, which means no trenching for power or data cabling across the site. It can be mounted on an existing structure or a pole at the edge of the works, capturing the build without adding hazards to the areas students and staff still use.
Education clients report to governing bodies and hold assets for decades, so a clear record of how a building was constructed has lasting value. Buildcam produces a continuous, timestamped archive from groundbreaking through to completion, held in Sentinel OS and exportable when you need it. That record supports handover, informs later maintenance and refurbishment, and documents what was built and in what sequence.
Yes. The same continuous capture serves the architect and builder who want portfolio and award material, the community who want to watch progress, and the institution that needs to report to its governing bodies. One camera produces the archive, the timelapse, and the progress record together, rather than running three separate documentation efforts.

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