VISUAL INTELLIGENCE FOR MAJOR INFRASTRUCTURE

Protect your people, your project, and your reputation.

Construction time-lapse photography and AI-powered visual intelligence for major infrastructure projects.

$108B+

$108B+

Combined project value

2008

2008

Established

1,000+

1,000+

Camera installations

why us

Why Australia's biggest projects choose us

After 500 million images, we know what major projects value. These are the four reasons they choose us.

AI-powered insights

Surface after-hours activity, activity in exclusion zones, selected visible PPE conditions, progress and trends from the imagery you’re already capturing. Review the source images behind the insights. Custom models can be developed for project-specific requirements.

AI analytics showing a person detected in a construction-site exclusion zone

You only get one shot.

Rapid deployment and flexible mounting solutions that eliminate working at height and ground penetration. Connectivity ranges from in-tunnel Ethernet, 4G and Wi-Fi to remote off-grid Starlink. Up to 24/7 RAW capture at one-minute intervals.

Standard

DSLR 6K

1280 × 720 px

Standard

DSLR 6K

1280 × 720 px

Fully managed. End to end.

From planning and deployment to monitoring, maintenance, processing and delivery, TLCO manages the service across the life of the project, so you’re not left managing cameras or chasing missing footage.

Daily capture complete

Yesterday, 4:47 pm

Sydney Metro West - Parramatta. 847 frames captured, processing queued.

Your video is ready

Today, 8:02 am

Aerial time-lapse still of a high-rise construction site in Sydney with tower cranes and scaffolding over the harbour skyline

Sydney Metro West - Parramatta time-lapse rendered and ready to view.

Enterprise security. Australian data residency.

Give the right people secure access to consequential project imagery, with Microsoft SSO, governed permissions and Australian data residency available where required.

Security status

AU region

Data residency

Sydney, AU

Microsoft Azure AD

Connected

The platform

More than cameras - a visual intelligence platform

Images, comparisons, video delivery, and AI Insights, all in one secure platform with Microsoft SSO and granular access control

Monitor your site from anywhere

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Before image

July 2025

Today

High-resolution DSLR imagery and configurable capture give your team a current and historical view of the project from anywhere. Navigate the timeline, inspect detail and use Quick Compare to see how the site has changed between two moments.

  • Calendar and timeline navigation across the project record

  • Quick Compare between selected dates

  • One-click image download for reporting and communications

Communicate your achievements

Project record

Different project video serves different jobs. Keep a daily project record, turn project change into cinematic monthly progress videos, and bring drone footage and other project video into the same secure platform.

  • Daily Project Record: time and date-stamped project record videos.

  • Monthly Progress Video: cinematic time-lapse for reporting and communications.

  • Custom Uploads: drone and other project video in one secure platform.

Understand your project

Construction AI analytics dashboard showing people counts and hard hat compliance trends

The Intelligence Layer helps your team find useful information in a visual record too large to review manually. Surface after-hours activity, activity in exclusion zones, selected visible PPE conditions, progress and trends, then review the source image and timestamp behind each insight.

  • After-hours activity, exclusion-zone activity and selected visible PPE conditions

  • Source image and timestamp behind each surfaced insight

  • Progress and trend views across selected periods

See what your project images can reveal

Featured projects

Proven on the nation's most complex projects

From major infrastructure and data centres to energy and remote projects, TLCO delivers long-duration visual capability across Australia.
Proven across 1,000+ camera installations since 2008.

Sydney Metro

Sydney Metro

Since 2014

TLCO engagement

30+

Work packages supported

$25.1 billion

Project value

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80 Collins

80 Collins

2 Years

TLCO engagement

38

Levels CBD construction

$800 million

Project value

View project

El Merk

El Merk

44 Months

TLCO engagement

4

Coordinated viewpoints

$2.2 billion

EPC project value

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What clients say

Trusted by the teams that build Australia

  • We needed a solution that would effectively capture the construction of Amcor's new $500 million paper mill, and The Time-lapse Company certainly delivered an outstanding result. The high-quality photography provided by Cameron and The Time-lapse Company team records what was a significant milestone in Amcor's 144-year history, and has allowed us to create a number of engaging multimedia tools for a range of audiences.

    Sonny Coleiro

    Group General Manager, Amcor

  • Overall the service provided was excellent and very responsive.

    Jemma Walshe

    Community & Stakeholder Relations Manager, Fulton Hogan

  • We engaged The Time-lapse Company on behalf of our client to provide high-resolution capture of the demolition of a very large warehouse building in Melbourne. From start to finish, The Time-lapse Company coordinated works with great efficiency, managing the expectations of everyone involved including AECOM, the client and the demolition contractor. The final video delivered was a great representation of the project.

    Ram Sarma

    Principal Environmental Engineer, AECOM

  • Appreciated the professionalism of the service from start to finish. Particularly appreciated the flexibility in their approach and the 'nothing is too hard' attitude. Thanks!

    Shaun Douglas

    Project Lead, Department of Transport and Planning

  • The Time-lapse Company's work has provided the City of Melbourne with a unique and engaging insight into how some of Melbourne's key public spaces work. I can recommend the Time-lapse Company. They have always delivered the highest quality work, they are efficient, reliable and professional.

    Fiona Whitworth

    Project Consultant, City of Melbourne

Who it's for

Delivering real value to every team

Major projects involve more than one team. The same visual record can support delivery, communications, safety, risk, reporting and leadership across the project.

01 / 06

Project managers

Track progress, revisit what happened and keep teams aligned with current and historical project imagery in one place.

Programme control

03 / 06

Legal & Risk

Return to time and date-stamped project imagery when questions arise, with high-resolution and RAW capture available as part of the project record.

Risk & documentation

05 / 06

Compliance & Reporting

Use time and date-stamped imagery, project records and controlled access to support reporting, review and project assurance.

Audit & reporting

02 / 06

Stakeholders & Comms

Turn project change into clear visual updates, cinematic time-lapse and imagery that keeps stakeholders informed and engaged.

Community & media

04 / 06

Safety

Surface selected visible safety conditions and review the source imagery behind them to help teams focus attention where it matters.

Site safety

06 / 06

Executives & Decision-Makers

See project change, progress and emerging patterns without needing to be on site, with visual history available when deeper review is needed.

Executive visibility

Portrait of Cam Davies, Managing Director and Founder of The Time-lapse Company

CAMERON DAVIES, FOUNDER

From natural history to long-duration visual systems

Before founding TLCO, Cameron worked as a Director of Photography, including with the ABC Natural History Unit. While filming natural history, he spent countless hours waiting for rare events and weather that might never happen on cue.

That led to a simple question: could a remotely deployed time-lapse system maintain professional image quality without a camera crew standing there waiting? Cameron built an early purpose-built Remote Time-lapse Unit™, and TLCO grew from that idea. Today, the same thinking underpins how TLCO helps major projects monitor change, communicate progress and extract more value from their visual record.

Cam Davies

Cam Davies

Cam Davies signature

How it works

We take care of all the details, so you can focus on delivering the project.

Define. Deploy. Deliver.

01

Define

We start by understanding the project, what is changing, what matters, who needs to use the visual record and what needs to be captured. Through Site Recce and Solution Design, we compare viable viewpoints and resolve framing, sun path, access, mounting, power, connectivity, servicing, engineering requirements, client responsibilities and site constraints before anything is installed. The result is a buildable solution with fewer unknowns before deployment.

02

Deploy

Deploy turns the Solution Design into a working site system. Before mobilisation, we configure and test the camera, connectivity and platform. On site, TLCO manages access, SWMS and installation requirements, then delivers the mounting, power, cabling, connectivity and camera configuration as one integrated solution. We frame, commission and verify the installed system against the design, resolving real site conditions before it enters service.

03

Deliver

Once live, we stay with it. TLCO monitors camera health, manages faults, coordinates servicing and adapts the system as the project changes. Your team gets ongoing access through Image Viewer AI to project imagery, comparison tools, Daily Project Records, cinematic time-lapse, secure video delivery and AI Insights. From commissioning through to final project outputs and handover, TLCO manages the visual capability as an ongoing service.

Ready to get started?

Tell us about your project. We’ll help define the right visual capability for the site, from capture and deployment through to communications and AI Insights.