[U/C] Adelaide Botanic High School | Frome Road

[Will]

Lend Lease have been appointed as the builder.

[Ben]

Fairly certain i saw a crane base as i drove past this morning.

[Listy]

This is the site today. There was a large piling rig on site up until last week, but that's gone now. The green thing is new, but it looks more like a piece of boring equipment than a crane base to me?

[Uncle Monty]

Can we change the thread name to Adelaide Botanic High School? As the official name was announced last month

[Llessur2002]

Who doesn't love an occasional botanic high?

[Ben]

Looks like a crane base to me.

[citywatcher]

Or a xmas tree

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[EBG]

It might be a pile test rig. These look like crane bases because they are made from crane tower sections. They are used to load a few test piles with weights to test their load bearing capacity. Attached is a picture of a test rig that was used at the UniSA site on north Tce. If it gets removed after a week or to it is a test rig. Test piles are piles that stick out of the ground a metre or so

[Ben]

Im not sure what it is on closer inspection.

[adelaideseo]

How long is the whole thing going to take I wonder?

[Norman]

How long is the whole thing going to take I wonder?

At this stage it's due to open in just over 20 months. (Term 1 2019)

[EBG]

This equipment is a pile testing rig not a crane base. A picture of a test pile also. 27/may 17.

[EBG]

The pile test rig has been removed and work has started on digging a basement level at the western (Frome road) end of the site.

[crawf]

A crane base is now on site.

[Ben]

Crane base: