Two years is a timeframe in which teams, contacts and sometimes even design solutions change. TimelapseLab supported Lavori Industriali in the monitoring of the construction site in Rovigo, on Via Porta a Mare, for the entire duration of the project.
The installed device, connected to the TimelapseLab cloud platform, captured images at regular intervals from day one through to handover. The resulting archive covers twenty-four months without interruption and makes it possible to go back to any day of the works, as well as feeding time-lapse content.
On long projects, continuity of documentation is worth more than the quality of any single record. An accurate but occasional photographic survey captures isolated states; a regular sequence reveals the rhythm, and from that rhythm one can read what no site report records: where the site sped up, where it stopped, and how long a phase actually took compared with what was planned.
The archive supported periodic reporting to the client and simplified internal handovers, which are frequent on projects of this length. Whoever takes over finds a visual record that is already organised, instead of having to reconstruct the history from the descriptions of their predecessors.
Over twenty-four months, the archive also becomes quantitative data. Counting the images measures how many days of actual work the site had, and comparing this with the nominal calendar produces a figure that carries more weight in final assessments than many impressions. It is information that requires no sophisticated analysis: all it needs is for the sequence to be continuous and time-stamped.
The length of the project highlighted an advantage that goes unnoticed on short sites. Over two years, the documentation changes function several times: a control tool in the early phases, a reference point in interim inspections, and reporting material at close-out. The same archive, with no additional work, met needs that arose many months apart.
Site monitoring in Rovigo was based on periodic images, distinct from the continuous recording typical of video surveillance, with automatic blurring of faces and number plates in line with a privacy-by-design approach.
