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They haven't made any progress on installing the glass panel over the last few weeks.
Have they run out of them ?

Maybe walk around the other side.

ghs wrote:They haven't made any progress on installing the glass panel over the last few weeks.
Have they run out of them ?

There was a problem with a large batch of glass being incorrect. I believe as the glass had to be remade, and comes from China is has delayed the external glass cladding. The CFMEU did point out in a press interview a couple of months back, that despite the millions being spent on this site, many of the materials are manufactured offshore. Meanwhile local glass manufacturers are struggling, thus local jobs are being lost, even despite these taxpayer funded projects. Chinese glass and pre fabricated cladding fro China is all the rage currently, to the detriment of local suppliers. Problem is in years to come when some of these curtain wall panels start to fail, it will be virtually impossible to match the colour and special reflective coatings on the imported stock or even some of the fittings used to fix them.

Is this project still on budget ?

It's taken so long, surely it must have blown out.

ghs wrote:Is this project still on budget ?

It's taken so long, surely it must have blown out.

I believe it hasn't.

ghs wrote:Is this project still on budget ?

It's taken so long, surely it must have blown out.

Have you seen this bloody thing? It's huge. It was on contaminated ground. It was on sinking ground. I'm impressed they've done it in the time they have. Three years for an amazing piece of architecture doesn't seem that long to me.

On budget but not on time, if I believe correctly. Not always a bad thing. Sometimes it's worth waiting than rushing to meet a schedule.

Yes on budget but not on time, so when the contractors price this job they price it thinking it will be finished way before it does, they now have to pay the wages for the blokes onsite for many months more than they expected which affects the companies a lot especially the smaller ones. I know of a couple of companies that are losing money on this job.

Pic taken today (Saturday) from Morphett St bridge.

From today:

Does anyone know how the budget is going for this building? Stories are spreading around in health education that groups are pulling out because they've been told to bring their own furniture...

I was lucky enough to go on a site tour yesterday.
Fantastic building.
The cyclotron is pretty amazing, the room it's in has two metre thick walls and door - it's great we will have this in adelaide - currently research and scanning isotopes are shipped in via virgin passenger planes from Melbourne.
As far as we were told, everything is running reasonably smoothly, they expect to get final handover on December 22.
The glass cladding is due for completion in just over a month.
The majority of fit out is due to finish in two months.
Expect a name change from sahmri early 2014.
Sahmri 2 is scheduled for completion in 2017.

Rooshooter: Fantastic building.
The cyclotron is pretty amazing, the room it's in has two metre thick walls and door - it's great we will have this in adelaide - currently research and scanning isotopes are shipped in via virgin passenger planes from Melbourne.
As far as we were told, everything is running reasonably smoothly, they expect to get final handover on December 22.
The glass cladding is due for completion in just over a month.
The majority of fit out is due to finish in two months.
Expect a name change from sahmri early 2014.
Sahmri 2 is scheduled for completion in 2017.

Cheers for the info, so SAHRMI 2 is definitely going ahead then? If so, are there any detailed renders?

This is already my favourite development by far, building SA's research capacity is fantastic and what that could do for a city is potentially very exciting. So please don't tease about a SAHMRI 2 and then not provide any further info!

I looked on the website and didn't find much about it but I did find these renders of the current facility, so architecturally sexy, it looks like something out of a Ridley Scott film. I was going to say as well that this project could have easily gone to an eastern states City, they already get the vast majority of funding for research, the fact that we got this really is something to be proud of and get excited by!

I wasn't given a lot of detail re: building 2, except that they were very confident it was happening, it's planned to open in 2017, and at the moment, the design does not feature the same glass skin as building 1.
They mentioned something about 2 being quite a bit cheaper to build. The only render I saw was an elegant looking glass clad building with a similar but smaller shape to 1, but I gathered they haven't finalised the design yet.