https://i.imgur.com/g5wjdScl.jpg The landscaping treatment out the front is looking a bit tragic. It doesn't yet look like the pavers or rows of trees out the front of the RAH & SAHMRI will be continued along here, unless the bitumen is temporary, but there was already a temporary concrete surf...

Is there much of a difference between Singapore Airlines setups on both aircraft other then the tight squeeze for economy class? The dreamliners were very much hyped if memory serves me.. I think the passenger to toilet ratio is slightly better on the A350. Happy to be corrected though. Looking at ...

The tanks were being pulled down this morning, there was a large demolition rig tipping them over and rolling them into a neat row on the ground. Only three or four still standing when I went past.

Not sure what the mobile crane was for, but the temporary lift that was attached to the exterior has been removed, which will allow the facade to be completed. I guess that means at least one of the inside lifts has power and is running

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Thu Jun 08, 2023 11:27 am

Apparently they've decided to build the police barracks/horse stables elsewhere now.

Adelaide Airport according to the ABC

The North Terrace crane may be coming down - the crane cab was being loaded into a semi trailer this evening

The window shades seem to be simultaneously too small to be effective at shading the building, and yet big enough (and the wrong orientation, ie mostly vertical instead of horizontal) to be visually disruptive to anyone looking at the outside view from inside the building. Its a fairly trivial deta...

I don't think there's a cover on them once installed, they're just painted light grey. As you can see, the windows are not being shaded much.

The window shades seem to be simultaneously too small to be effective at shading the building, and yet big enough (and the wrong orientation, ie mostly vertical instead of horizontal) to be visually disruptive to anyone looking at the outside view from inside the building. Its a fairly trivial detai...

Ambulances use the North Terrace and Port Rd sections of the tram track all the time. I see them using the track almost weekly. If there's a tram ahead they either move onto the road or cross to the other track until they get past.

Some rough tollroad costs / revenue guesstimating for South Road. Road Cost $10 billion Annual loan interest (3%) $300 million Annual maintenance (2%) $200 million Annual Shareholder dividends / ROI (3%) $300 million Total = $800 million per annum Traffic volume (from DTI) 75,000 vehicles per day le...

It is getting harder and harder to fit this building in a single photo

It will be problematic if you get up in the morning, and instead of being charged, the car has discharged into the grid overnight and hasn't yet had a chance to recharge from the sun. Whether this is feasible will depend on how much power you use overnight, which season it is, and what time in the ...

You might be happy to have your energy use "managed" but large energy intensive industries are not. Backup generation in SA is regularly "managed" by diesel generation-so you don't notice a shortage of power...hardly good for the environment. None of this is advertised by whoeve...

There's the small matter of 5 Nobel laureates too ... FWIW Adelaide Uni reported a net surplus of $200 million this year, with 2.5 billion in assets and $250 million liabilities UniSA reported a surplus of $50 million, with 1.2 billion in assets and $600 million liabilities Flinders Uni is reporting...