DARB · NATIONAL TIME-LAPSE PROGRAMME

Document every project you are building in Saudi Arabia, under one programme.

We install unattended cameras on your sites — in Riyadh, on the Red Sea coast, inside an industrial city in the Eastern Province, or three hours from the nearest town — and keep them running for the full build. You receive a progress report every month, a summary each quarter, and a finished film at handover. One contract, one point of contact, whatever the site count.

13
Saudi regions within scope of coverage
24/7
remote monitoring on every installed camera
30
days between progress reports, as standard
COVERAGE

Where we install and service cameras

A national programme stands or falls on the sites nobody wants to drive to. Below is how we group the Kingdom, and what the work usually looks like in each part of it.

01

Riyadh Region

Riyadh · Diriyah · Al Kharj

Business towers, residential compounds and government-backed developments. Dense sites where camera positions are negotiated with neighbouring buildings as often as with the contractor.

02

Makkah Region

Jeddah · Makkah · Taif

Waterfront and hospitality builds, plus expansion work on constrained plots. Salt-laden air near the coast shortens the service interval on every housing and lens.

03

Eastern Province

Dammam · Khobar · Dhahran · Jubail · Ras Al Khair

Industrial, logistics and energy plants. Access is governed by the operator's safety regime, so installation is scheduled around permits rather than around the weather.

04

Madinah Region

Madinah · Yanbu

Hospitality and residential work around the central area, where framing has to be agreed in advance and camera lines of sight are strictly limited.

05

Tabuk & the North West

Tabuk · Red Sea coast · NEOM area

Open sites with no mains power and patchy coverage. These run fully self-sufficient: solar, battery reserve and dual-carrier uplink with local storage as the fallback.

06

Asir, Qassim & Hail

Abha · Khamis Mushait · Buraidah · Hail

Tourism, agricultural and infrastructure projects. Altitude and winter cloud in the south change the exposure programme; dust storms in the centre set the maintenance calendar.

A site outside these groupings is not a problem — it changes the maintenance visit schedule, not whether we can cover it.

WHO THIS IS BUILT FOR

Four buyers, four different reasons

The footage is the same. What each party needs out of it is not, and the reporting is shaped accordingly.

01

Property developers

Selling a building that does not exist yet. The monthly clip is the proof that the handover date is real.

  • Sales-floor and launch-event material from month one
  • Vertical cuts sized for social platforms
  • A finished film that outlives the project as a track record
02

Main contractors

Needing a dated, continuous visual record of what happened on site and when.

  • Frame-accurate timestamps on every captured image
  • Original frames archived and handed over, not just the edit
  • Evidence for progress claims and delay discussion
03

Project management offices

Reporting upward on several projects that are nowhere near each other.

  • One consolidated report covering every site in the programme
  • A quarterly summary built for a board or owner review
  • Consistent framing across sites, so progress is comparable
04

Government & industrial owners

Documenting a public or industrial asset from groundworks to commissioning.

  • Work performed under the site's own safety and access regime
  • Full archive handed to the owner at close-out
  • Procurement through a purchase order or framework agreement
SITE OPERATIONS

Keeping a camera alive for two years, unattended

Almost nothing about a long programme is photographic. It is power, connectivity, heat and dust — and what happens the week something fails.

Power without a grid connection

A solar panel with a battery reserve sized to carry the camera through several overcast days. Where the site has usable power we take a feed from it and keep the battery as the fallback, not the other way round.

Two carriers, and storage that does not need either

Images upload daily over mobile data using SIMs from two different operators. Every frame is also written to local storage on the rig, so a month of dead signal costs you nothing but the delay.

We find out before you do

Monitoring alerts us when a rig stops uploading, when the battery trends down, or when the frame has drifted. The service visit is scheduled off that alert rather than off a calendar reminder.

Built for 50°C and for dust

Sealed, ventilated housings with heat shielding and a dust-resistant front element. After a sandstorm the lens is cleaned on a scheduled visit; nothing is left to be discovered in the final edit.

Re-framing as the building grows

A frame set at foundation level is wrong by the tenth floor. Re-framing is planned into the programme at agreed milestones, and the original composition is preserved so the sequence still cuts together.

Handover of the rig, not just the film

At close-out the hardware comes off the site cleanly, the mounting points are made good, and the complete frame archive is delivered on media the owner keeps.

PERMITS & COMPLIANCE

What has to be in place before anyone climbs a mast

Filming on a Saudi construction site is a permitted activity, not an informal one. We handle this layer as part of the programme.

  1. Written filming consent from the site owner, plus an introduction letter naming every member of the attending crew
  2. Drone registration and flight authorisation through the General Authority of Civil Aviation, with restricted airspace checked before each flight
  3. Safety induction, work-at-height permits and compliant equipment for industrial, energy and petrochemical sites
  4. Valid identification and third-party liability insurance for the installation crew
  5. Agreed framing that keeps neighbouring private property and any restricted structure out of shot
  6. Archive handed to the owner at close-out and our working copies deleted once the final delivery is signed off
WHAT YOU RECEIVE

Deliverables and the cadence they arrive on

A film at the end is the least useful part of a two-year programme. Most of the value is in what lands every month while the project is still running.

  • A monthly progress clip per site, with selected full-resolution stills
  • A quarterly summary edit, cut for an owner or board review
  • The finished film at handover, in widescreen and vertical
  • The complete original frame archive, delivered on media you keep
  • Short cuts sized for social platforms and sales-floor screens
  • A version with sound design and a clean silent version for exhibition stands
  • Dated stills on request, for progress claims or dispute files
  • A consolidated report across every site when the programme covers more than one
HOW WE CONTRACT

Three shapes, depending on how much you are building

Scope is written around site count, build duration and how far the site is from the nearest major city — those three drive both the cost and the service schedule.

Single site

One project, documented from the first excavation through to handover.

  • One to three cameras depending on the footprint
  • Monthly progress clip and stills
  • Final film at handover
  • Full frame archive delivered at close-out
Most requested

Multi-site programme

Several projects in different regions under one contract and one consolidated report.

  • Consistent framing and grading across every site
  • One monthly report covering the whole portfolio
  • Quarterly summary built for owner review
  • Shared maintenance routing, so distant sites cost less to service

Annual framework agreement

For developers and authorities with a rolling pipeline of projects starting through the year.

  • Agreed rates held for the term
  • New sites added without re-tendering each one
  • Priority mobilisation on short notice
  • Procurement through purchase orders against the agreement

Pricing is built from the site count, the expected build duration and travel distance to each location. Send the project details and a written proposal follows within 3 working days.

QUESTIONS

Frequently asked

Do you cover projects outside Riyadh?

Yes. The programme is built around sites spread across the Kingdom — Riyadh Region, Makkah Region, the Eastern Province, Madinah, Tabuk and the north west, and the southern and central regions. Distance changes the maintenance visit schedule and the travel line in the proposal; it does not change whether a site can be covered.

The site has no electricity and no internet. Can a camera still run there?

Yes, and most remote sites are exactly that. The rig runs on a solar panel with a battery reserve sized to survive several overcast days, and uploads over mobile data using SIMs from two operators. Every frame is also written to storage on the rig, so if signal is lost entirely the footage is still complete — it simply arrives on the next service visit.

What happens during a sandstorm?

The housing is sealed and the front element is dust-resistant, so the camera keeps shooting. Heavy dust degrades the image for a period, and a cleaning visit is scheduled once conditions settle. Affected frames stay in the archive and are handled in the edit rather than being quietly dropped.

How many cameras does a project need?

One camera covers a compact footprint from a single angle. Two or three are typical for a tower, giving a wide establishing view plus a closer angle on the working face. Large horizontal sites — industrial plants, masterplans, coastal developments — usually need four or more. The count is set during the site survey, before anything is quoted.

Who owns the footage?

You do. The complete original frame archive is delivered to you at close-out on media you keep, alongside the edited deliverables. We retain a working copy only until the final delivery is signed off, then delete it. Any use of the material as a portfolio reference happens only with your written agreement.

Can aerial footage be combined with the fixed cameras?

Yes, and on large sites it is worth it. A fixed rig gives continuity from one position; a scheduled drone pass gives the scale and the context that a single angle cannot. Drone work is flown under General Authority of Civil Aviation authorisation and folded into the same monthly report.

How long does installation take?

A site survey takes half a day, and installation of a typical rig takes one day once permits and access are in place. Getting those permits is normally the longest step, particularly on industrial and energy sites, so the survey is scheduled as early as possible.

Can you work against a purchase order or a framework agreement?

Yes. Most multi-site work runs as an annual framework agreement with rates held for the term, so new sites are added without re-tendering each one. Single projects can be contracted on a purchase order. Invoicing is from our Saudi entity and complies with the Zakat, Tax and Customs Authority requirements.

Tell us what you are building, and where.

Send the site locations, the expected build duration and the handover date you are working towards. A written proposal follows within 3 working days, with the camera count and the service schedule set per site.