Like to see the 14th Street Bridge come down without dodging the traffic?

Here it is: oxblue.com/pro/open/gatech/14th

A Georgia Tech professor and his students have put cameras on top of a Marriott hotel to track the dismantling of the old Midtown bridge, aided by equipment and Web support from the construction monitoring company OxBlue. Next week crews plan to remove some of the giant beams in the bridge, mostly at night.

The Web site gives a clear view of the bridge and the crews working to dismantle it, and it links to a time-lapse view of the progress. The scene moves quickly and automatically repeats.

The Web photo is updated every 12 minutes, said Jochen Teizer, an assistant professor in Georgia Tech's School of Civil and Environmental Engineering who put the monitoring project together with his students. Teizer said the idea is to watch how equipment moves and look for ways to make construction more efficient, both for the 14th Street Bridge project and future jobs.

A spokeswoman for the state Department of Transportation said the department may post a link from its own site to the Web site and that the contractor on the project is considering continuing the cameras throughout the length of the project.

"They would go back and say, 'these were things that worked well,' or, 'we could have possibly put equipment here and people would have been able to move around it better,' " said the spokeswoman, Crystal Paulk-Buchanan. "It's a very interesting opportunity."