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Posted: **Fri Nov 11, 2011 11:21 am**

Could you imagine!!!

Posted: **Sat Nov 19, 2011 8:57 am**

Green Crane base installed at the IQ building on Franklin St. Also, as I was coming into the office today, I saw two trucks with crane tower sections on their trays, so I am assuming this is for TC3 at Rundle Place.

Also, there is some road closures on Gawler place at the ex police HQ with a massive mobile crane on site.

Posted: **Sat Nov 19, 2011 1:48 pm**

I was onsite recently and a rigger informed me that including RAH there will be as many as 18 cranes in the CBD at anyone next year - not bad considering we rarely if ever make double digits

Posted: **Sat Nov 19, 2011 2:01 pm**

serca wrote:I was onsite recently and a rigger informed me that including RAH there will be as many as 18 cranes in the CBD at anyone next year - not bad considering we rarely if ever make double digits

I told you guys I wasn't crazy!

Posted: **Mon Nov 21, 2011 6:44 pm**

All this and the mining boom is still coming!(V soon) - or maybe this is the thin edge of the wedge as they say.

ADELAIDE - TOWARDS A GREATER CITY SKYLINE

Posted: **Sat Nov 26, 2011 12:27 pm**

Rundle Place Tower Crane 1 (Next to Grenfell St) is going up today.

Posted: **Sat Nov 26, 2011 12:28 pm**

Latest update

Location...........................Levels............Crane

Completed 2011

Globe Apartments...........................................15
Yorke Campus (Police Headquarters).................10
58-76 Franklin Street (Carpark)..........................10
42 - 56 Franklin St (Carpark)..............................8
Women's and Children's Hospital Children's..........6 (3 new)

Under Construction

City Central 8................................................21......................................2
Rundle Plaza Arcade.......................................19......................................2
58-76 Franklin Street (Office)...........................19
58-76 Franklin Street (Apartments)....................16
102 Waymouth St ...........................................16.....................................1
12-14 Rowlands Place......................................15.....................................1
111-115 South Terrace ....................................9
UNI SA Hindley Street......................................8
74 Light Square...............................................8
Medical Reasearch Institute - North Terrace......6.....................................2
Illumin8..........................................................6.....................................1
New Royal Adelaide Hospital
Convention Centre Redevelopment - Stage 1

TOTAL CBD CRANES:...................................9

January 2012

176-186 Morphett Street .............................16

February 2012

115 King William St ......................................25 (85m)
Adelaide Oval redevelopment

Approved/Proposed Upcoming

20 -22 Currie Street (ONH)............................31 (124m)
15-20 Bentham Street....................................37 (109m)
66 Currie Street .........................................23 (103m)
2-20 Flinders Street.....................................27 (100m)
51 Pirie Street ...........................................22 (98m)
123 Flinders Street (PRO)..............................22 (75m)
42 - 56 Franklin St (Office)............................17
152-160 Grote Street (PRO)............................16
399 King William Street ................................15
160 Pulteney Street ....................................13
71 - 83 Franklin St......................................13
377 - 379 King William St (PRO).....................13
102-120 Wakefield Street (Office).....................12
302-306 Waymouth St (PRO)............................12
Yorke Campus Buliding 3.............................10
Yorke Campus Buliding 2.............................10
Liverpool St (City West apartments).................9
Freedom Apartments T1...............................10
Freedom Apartments T2...............................8
Freedom Apartments T3...............................8

Completed 2008

Spark Hindley Street..................................15
Lot 8 Coglin St...........................................13
SA Water..................................................11
Tivoli.......................................................10
IPAD..........................................................9
Thompson Playford Gouger St........................8
The Precinct (Gallery).................................7

Completed 2009

Conservatory on Hindmarsh.........................18
The Precinct Tower 1 (Altitude)....................18
20 Hindmarsh Square (Apartment).................15
Aurora Building East ...................................14
Wave KW Street.........................................12
Edge KW Street..........................................11
374 - 400 King William St ..............................11
Adelaide Uni Engeneering Building..................8

Completed 2010

140 North Terrace ....................................20/18
20 Hindmarsh Square (Hotel)........................16
235 - 237 Pirie St (Freedom Apartments)........8
Ifould st Apartments...................................8

Posted: **Mon Nov 28, 2011 2:58 pm**

Re: Official CBD Crane Counter Thread - 8
by Pikey » Sat Nov 19, 2011 7:57 am

Green Crane base installed at the IQ building on Franklin St

Any word on when this crane will be fully erected and commissioned? I saw it yesterday and around the first 10m of the mast has been installed.
Given it's a green one I assume this is also Baulderstone, and they tend to use only luffing jib Favco's - so I assume this will be one of those.

Bloody big basement currently being built for that building. They've used a CBP wall - anyone know if many other basements have used a CBP wall in Adelaide?

Posted: **Mon Nov 28, 2011 3:12 pm**

malcolmyoung91 wrote:
Re: Official CBD Crane Counter Thread - 8
by Pikey » Sat Nov 19, 2011 7:57 am

Green Crane base installed at the IQ building on Franklin St
Any word on when this crane will be fully erected and commissioned? I saw it yesterday and around the first 10m of the mast has been installed.
Given it's a green one I assume this is also Baulderstone, and they tend to use only luffing jib Favco's - so I assume this will be one of those.

Bloody big basement currently being built for that building. They've used a CBP wall - anyone know if many other basements have used a CBP wall in Adelaide?

Welcome to the site mate. Sounds like you know a thing or two about construction. Will be great to have you on the forum.

I think the crane is going up this weekend, I saw a road closure on Franklin Street so assumed it's for this.

Posted: **Mon Nov 28, 2011 3:39 pm**

malcolmyoung91 wrote:
Re: Official CBD Crane Counter Thread - 8
by Pikey » Sat Nov 19, 2011 7:57 am

Green Crane base installed at the IQ building on Franklin St
Any word on when this crane will be fully erected and commissioned? I saw it yesterday and around the first 10m of the mast has been installed.
Given it's a green one I assume this is also Baulderstone, and they tend to use only luffing jib Favco's - so I assume this will be one of those.

Bloody big basement currently being built for that building. They've used a CBP wall - anyone know if many other basements have used a CBP wall in Adelaide?

Is that Malcolm who was once active in Fidonet? If so, hi, and if not, hi also

The basement is very similar to 400 KWS, also HMRI and Harris Scarfe ...

Posted: **Tue Nov 29, 2011 5:12 pm**

Welcome to the site mate. Sounds like you know a thing or two about construction. Will be great to have you on the forum.

I think the crane is going up this weekend, I saw a road closure on Franklin Street so assumed it's for this.

Thanks mate. Long time viewer of this thread but just joined up yesterday.
I used to work in the construction game but got out around 6 years ago.
Spent the majority of my career working o/s (Singapore), where CBP walls were very common particularly for the (sometimes 3 or 4 level) basement car parks of office buildings, shopping centres and condos.
CBP walls were used extensively on one of the projects I was working on - we had 2 x 150m rows on each side of a road underpass box, to form the walls of the depressed carrigeways. They were the preferred method as they saved a lot of time (probably money as well) but also in many cases, we didn't have any where near the amount of lateral clearance required to build retaining walls.

Anyway, that's probably all a little off topic.

Is that Malcolm who was once active in Fidonet? If so, hi, and if not, hi also

The basement is very similar to 400 KWS, also HMRI and Harris Scarfe ...

Thanks for the pics. No I haven't heard of Fidonet. Long time fan of the underated guitarist who formed a band in Sydney in 1973...

Given the amount of construction activity around Adelaide at the moment (CBD high-rises, airport and South Road Superway spring to mind), and the summaries of buildings U/C and amount of tower cranes in the CBD, it is a very exciting time for tower crane enthusiasts.

My office is on one of the uppermost floors of Westpac House, so we have pretty much unimpeded views of all tower cranes in the CBD at the moment. Happy to take some type of panoramic view and post here - and/or of certain tower cranes (the two Baulderstone Favco's in Franklin St spring to mind - both must be approaching 100m top of jib height).

Posted: **Wed Nov 30, 2011 11:43 am**

Franklin street Crane is going up today. It's actually white. Only base is green.

Congrats everyone first time we've had ten in the cbd!!!

Posted: **Wed Nov 30, 2011 11:54 am**

Very Exciting times! Hopefully if some of these other approvals get going, we can get close to 20 with the new Hospital!

Posted: **Wed Nov 30, 2011 1:41 pm**

How exciting! I even posted a FB status about it.

Posted: **Wed Nov 30, 2011 1:50 pm**

Must admit I've never really been a 'crane counter' but yet another of my colleagues from Melbourne, completely unprovoked, commented last week on how many things were being built around the city. So it *is* having an impact on visitors and, I hope, locals as well and maybe restructuring a bit of the negative attitude around the place (not on this forum, of course!).

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