Victoria Square, Woking: time-lapse of three towers and a new town centre
Our time-lapse film of Victoria Square, Woking, for Sir Robert McAlpine.
The project
Victoria Square extends Woking’s town centre shopping and adds three towers. The tallest residential tower has 34 storeys and the second 32; the Hilton hotel tower has 23. The scheme also includes a flagship Marks & Spencer, a plant-covered multi-storey car park, a glazed canopy entrance and an energy centre.
Sir Robert McAlpine built the £330m scheme for Moyallen and Woking Borough Council. Work started in June 2017 and finished in August 2022.
The brief
The team needed a record of a long, phased town-centre build from the first day. As the towers rose, coverage had to grow to show every part of the site, including views from height.
What we installed
Site Eye started with one solar-powered time-lapse camera at the beginning of the project. As the work spread across the site, this grew to three cameras. A short-term camera mounted on a tower crane added views from above, giving complete coverage of the works.
How the footage was used
- Complete site record: the cameras covered every area of the site as the project needed.
- Online portal: the team could download photos and video compilations from the Site Eye online portal.
- Secure back-up: all images were stored and backed up, a point the client singled out.
Related services
See construction time-lapse cameras, the online portal and our London and South East time-lapse work. Planning a tower or town-centre scheme? Get a free site survey.
Sources
Project facts: Sir Robert McAlpine: Victoria Square and Wikipedia: Victoria Square, Woking.
At a glance
- Client: Sir Robert McAlpine, for Moyallen and Woking Borough Council
- Project: Town centre mixed-use scheme: two residential towers, a Hilton hotel tower, an M&S anchor store, car park, glazed canopy entrance and energy centre
- Location: Woking, Surrey
- Sector: Mixed use, residential, hotel and retail
- Duration: From the start of the project in June 2017
- Cameras: 1 solar-powered camera from the start, later increased to 3, plus a short-term tower crane camera
- Power: Solar
- Services: Time-lapse cameras, crane-mounted camera, online portal with photo and film downloads, data back-up
“Very responsive & flexible, providing a service we keep coming back to due to the quality, professionalism & back up/data storage.”
Paul Hallam, Sir Robert McAlpine
