I believe zinc does develop a patina, but to what extent would depend on how it's been treated. Zinc Oxide is a dirty white / grey colour. Not as interesting as Copper Carbonate's green. But yes, the result depends on the treatment. (Chemistry question: why does copper tend to 'carbonise' rather th...

Lots of big projects underway and about to commence exciting times. I don't ever remember this many projects at or about to commence construction phase. We had had heaps of proposals but this is by far going to be one of the biggest 24 months periods in terms of both height and quantity. Can't wait...

Lots of big projects underway and about to commence exciting times. I don't ever remember this many projects at or about to commence construction phase. We had had heaps of proposals but this is by far going to be one of the biggest 24 months periods in terms of both height and quantity. Can't wait...

Adelaide Oval is terrible for football(soccer). The view from the Western stand is very sub par simply due to the distance to the field, the old Southern stand was even worse. AFL/Cricket stadiums only provide for football adiquatly when the lower seating tears can physicaly be brought inwards to wi...

has there been an announcement where the Adelaide railway yard control centre will go? I think Dry Creek Depot was built with space for a rail control centre, that is the most likely outcome. The TAOC building at Dry Creek was constructed with sufficient room to house signaling control equipment &a...

It's always a good laugh to read some of the stuff on here..

Eurostar wrote:What are they doing on the western side of that carpark under the Morphett Road bridge, i saw a CAT thing moving the dirt.

West of ground level carpark west of the bridge? Simply undertaking ground cleanup, no development.

Pikey wrote:Yup second crane is up, two down, two more to come!

It's an impressive sight to behold too, having four Favco's up will look unreal.

might just be two favco's(310/380D) and two J600.24 hammerheads.

Confirming the second ACC hammerhead won't be up untill mid March - early April.

Should run a sweepstake to guess exactly what cranes will be used. My money is on 2x electric hammerheads

Ben wrote:Seeing the size of this site today and the fact they are using tower cranes rather than hammerheads. I think there will be three cranes for this project.

Two hammerheads will cover the whole site from North tce to Festival Drive/Rowing sheds.

[Shuz] wrote:

Ben wrote:North Terrace is closed today because of site works... Crane soon?

They'd need a couple of cranes, surely?

If I was a betting man

plus the new convention center. Could be 4-5 cranes up at the same time along the Torrens

Thanks for the photos. I have never seen a concrete pouring structure (ie like the one in the photos) raised. How do they do it. Also (please forgive my ignorance) do they flush the concrete out of the riser / pipes etc with water at completion of a pour? They will usualy "blow the lines down&...

crawf wrote:Theres actually 11 cranes in Adelaide, if you include West Lakes and Flinders University.

FlindUni never had a tower crane, it had a 70t Lima crawer to start with, now there is what looks like a 100t pinjib up there. The medical centre still has it's tower crane.