Holiday Inn, Dublin Airport

• Continuous time-lapse build record
• Live BIM vs. as-built comparison
• Remote progress visibility for team

Stewart Construction selected Evercam for a project of this scale, a 10-story, 421-bedroom hotel being delivered on a design-and-build basis with an extensive team of architects and engineers, because keeping everyone aligned on progress across a large, multi-year build needed more than periodic site visits and written updates. Time-lapse cameras gave the whole project team a continuous visual record of construction, from groundworks through to the completed 10-story structure, that anyone involved could refer back to at any time.

The BIM integration was just as important: rather than treating the camera footage and the building model as separate references, Evercam let Stewart Construction and its design partners compare what was actually being built on site against the BIM model as work progressed. That gave the design and build team, spread across C+W O'Brien Architects and multiple consulting engineering firms, a shared, visual way to confirm the structure was tracking correctly against the design intent.

Delivering a 10-story, 421-bedroom hotel on a design-and-build basis meant Stewart Construction had to keep an extensive team, C+W O'Brien Architects alongside Coyle Kennedy Consulting Engineers and Waterman Moylan Consulting Engineers, aligned on construction progress throughout the build. Without a shared, continuously updated visual record, keeping every party current on where the works actually stood, versus what the design and programme called for, depended on scheduled site visits and manually shared updates.

Comparing the as-built structure against the BIM model as work progressed was similarly difficult without a tool built for that purpose, since photos and site notes on their own don't map directly onto a 3D model, and a large hotel development gives a design and build team many separate work fronts to track over time.

Before adopting Evercam, construction progress on a project like this would typically have been tracked through periodic site visits, manually taken photographs, and written status reports circulated to the wider design and build team. Comparing what had actually been built against the BIM model would have meant someone manually cross-referencing site photos or personal observations with drawings, rather than viewing built condition and design intent side by side.

For a design-and-build hotel project of this size, with architects, structural and building services engineers, and a main contractor all needing a shared understanding of progress, relying on scheduled visits and static photos made it harder for anyone not physically on site to get a timely, accurate picture of where construction actually stood.

Deploying Evercam's time-lapse cameras gave Stewart Construction and its design partners a continuous, always-available visual record of the hotel's construction, from groundworks through the completed 10-story structure, that any member of the design and build team could check without needing to be on site. That kind of shared visibility is particularly valuable on a design-and-build project with a large external design team, since architects and engineers based off site could still follow how the works were progressing.

The BIM integration extended that benefit by letting the team compare the as-built construction directly against the building model as work went on, rather than relying on separate photos, notes, and drawings that had to be manually cross-referenced. That made it easier to confirm the structure was tracking correctly against the design intent throughout the build, and gave the project a clear, camera-based record of the process that the wider Stewart Construction, C+W O'Brien Architects, and consulting engineering team could all draw on.