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School and campus construction cameras that tell the story as you build.

A new building on campus is something the whole community wants to watch. Our Buildcam cameras document the build for your board and leave you with a time lapse to share for years. With Buildcam LS or Pro, students and families can watch it live.

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One camera for the board, the community and the marketing team.

A campus build rarely moves at its own pace. Term dates, exams and intakes shape when trades can work and when parts of the site are handed back. A camera running through the whole program records how the schedule was actually met.

Education projects also answer to a wide group: boards and finance committees, donors who funded the building, and students, staff and families who will use it. Our Buildcam cameras keep all of them close with one shared record, managed in Sentinel OS, the intelligent software platform behind every Buildcam camera. After handover, the same footage becomes a lasting archive for the institution's marketing, fundraising and history.

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Buildcam TL above a mid-rise building site on an overcast morning

How it works

How a construction camera works on a campus build

  1. Mount it clear of students and staff

    Each camera goes on an existing building, a pole or the site fence at the edge of the works, with its own solar panel and 4G. There is no trenching across the campus for power or data.

  2. It captures every stage

    The camera photographs the build on a set schedule through every term, break and handback. With Buildcam LS or Pro, it also livestreams in 4K.

  3. Share it with the whole community

    Every frame lands in Sentinel OS. The board sees progress, the community watches live or follows the time lapse, and the marketing team exports the finished film for open days and donor updates.

On campus

What a camera does on campus

Sentinel OS comparing two dates of a university campus: the finished courtyard on one side, earthworks on the other

Board and committee reporting

A time-stamped record that shows real progress without site visits or monthly photography runs.

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Student, staff and family engagement

A livestream and a shareable time lapse let your community watch the building become real.

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Buildcam LS above a university building under construction

Marketing and fundraising content

The finished time lapse works for open days, donor updates and award entries.

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Site History in Sentinel OS on a desktop display, filtered by date, showing seaside residential towers

Building around the academic calendar

A record of how each phase fitted around term dates and handbacks.

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Track your progress

See the site change, day by day, with Time Portal.

Compare any two dates across the frame, or drag a window across the image to reveal an earlier state beneath the present. From the first excavation to opening day.

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Portal mode. Drag inside the window to move it, drag a corner to resize, or draw a new window anywhere on the frame.

The site as it stands nowThe same view at an earlier stageNow
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Share this morning's progress in two taps.

The Sentinel OS app puts every camera in your pocket. Watch the site live, then share a frame or a finished time lapse with your community without leaving the conversation.

  • Live view from any camera, and livestream from Buildcam LS and Pro
  • Share a frame or a time lapse in a couple of taps
  • Native iOS and Android apps
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The Sentinel OS mobile app on two phones, comparing two dates of a site
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Buildcam LS, or Buildcam Pro for both

Buildcam LS livestreams in 4K to your community. Buildcam Pro adds a high-resolution time lapse for the archive.

Industry: Education

Questions about cameras on campus builds.

The ones that come up most on school and university 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. Our Buildcam cameras run continuously and capture 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 time-stamped record and an exportable time lapse 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.
A new library, sports hall, or accommodation block is a shared investment for students, staff, and families. A shareable time lapse, and a 4K livestream from Buildcam LS or Pro, 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.
Yes. Buildcam LS and Pro livestream in 4K, and you choose who can view it.
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 time lapse 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. Our Buildcam cameras are solar powered and connect over 4G, which means no trenching for power or data cabling across the site. They 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. Our Buildcam cameras produce a continuous, time-stamped 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. Export any frame or a finished time lapse in full resolution.
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 time lapse, and the progress record together, rather than running three separate documentation efforts.
It depends on the camera, the number of views you need and how long the project runs. One of our Buildcam cameras covers most small campus builds, and larger programs use several. The Instant Quote gives you a price for a single camera in a few minutes.

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