EarthCam Premieres Construction Time-Lapse Movie to Commemorate Opening of the Bay Bridge

Watch EarthCam’s time-lapse movie of the construction progress for one of the largest ARRA (American Recovery and Restoration Act) funded projects in our nation’s history.

More than 42,000 hours of construction can be seen in just four minutes with the release of EarthCam’s official time-lapse movie for the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. After many years of construction to retrofit and transform the Bay Bridge, project teams and contractors will be celebrating all of their hard work at the opening of the updated bridge today, September 3.

The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) relied on 12 EarthCam construction cameras to document progress for the $6.4 billion bridge. In 2008, EarthCam installed a combination of live streaming video cameras and high definition time-lapse systems, all carefully documenting progress from several unique perspectives. Strategically located on the project site, each camera captured a specific view of the progress, archiving footage from 42 preset angles. During the life of the project, views of progress, as well as important information about construction-related lane closures, were made available on the Webby award-winning public web page.

EarthCam’s construction cameras captured nearly six years of progress, a powerful testament to the hard-working and dedicated bridge teams. The EarthCam Time-Lapse Production Team pored over the staggering number of images captured over the past 59 months and spent months hand-editing the archived imagery into a professional time-lapse movie.