[COM] SAHMRI | $200m

[ghs]

I saw that article on channel 10 as well. It said that this crane is the largest of its type in Australia....
ie. the largest hammerhead crane.

I think the really big developments interstate would not use hammerhead cranes...

[Xaragmata]

Another crane base has been installed on the western side of the site, near the site offices (may be for concrete pump?). Pre-cast columns have reached Nth Terrace level in places.

[ghs]

At this stage they wouldn't really need a concrete pump on a crane base right ?

[Xaragmata]

At this stage they wouldn't really need a concrete pump on a crane base right ?

No, they are still using truck-mounted pumps:



Here is the second crane base (i assume)







http://xaragmata.cable.nu/album/adelaid ... _3813.html

[AtD]

The structure is a bit too thin for a crane. I think it'll be a concrete pump tower.

[Isiskii]

HMRI crane as seen in the background, with Uno Apartments crane in foreground.

[Professor]

I looked at this today and that base is on a pretty large slab (although a concrete pump would need strong support as well.

I would hazard a guess that this could well be a second crane, as it's positioned opposite the existing one and would cover the other half of the site. Hope so and time will tell.

[Xaragmata]

I looked at this today and that base is on a pretty large slab (although a concrete pump would need strong support as well.

I would hazard a guess that this could well be a second crane, as it's positioned opposite the existing one and would cover the other half of the site. Hope so and time will tell.

The massive slab is one of the reasons I suspect it might be for a second crane - in any event the site offices have been moved away from that area to
allow materials or concrete to be delivered there. The way the precast columns are being installed to terrace level, it may not be a long wait. The Jumbos
have been moved away from the north side of the rail yard.

[spiller]

apologies if this has already been answered, but when is this project due for completion?

[Xaragmata]

apologies if this has already been answered, but when is this project due for completion?

July 2013 ( http://www.sahmri.com/facility )

[skyliner]

Xara - it seems like you've taken personal responsibility to keep us all updated on thios one - a good job being done mate!

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[Ben]

Designers' award salutes art of glass

BELINDA MOORE From: The Advertiser February 22, 2011



North Tce. Picture supplied by Woods Bagot. Source: Supplied

A TRIANGULAR glass skin will clad the $200 million South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute.

The final design reveals two 35m-high atriums creating a window for about 675 researchers working in the flagship building.

It recently won Adelaide architects Woods Bagot a European MIPIM design award.

Work on the eight-level structure, adjacent to the new Royal Adelaide Hospital site, started last year and is expected to be completed by December 2012.

Woods Bagot principal Gavin Kain said the institute was designed as a world-class building to attract the best researchers in the world. He also said the site was "crying out for a landmark building".

"The objective here is to have young people want to become researchers.

"The building, the facility and the site was about inspiring young researchers to want to enter the profession," Mr Kain said.

Thomas Masullo, also a principal at Woods Bagot, said another objective was to ensure the 25,000sq m building complemented nearby parklands. "The design lifts the building off the ground to allow the parklands and the landscaping to extend and flow through from North Terrace," he said.

There were possibilities for exhibitions, lectures and performance space on the ground floor and plans for medicinal plantings among the landscaping. One of the largest cranes of its type in Australia is on site to lift equipment.

With groundworks completed, columns are now being built to plaza level.

The building project, fully funded by the Federal Government and planned to be the first completed in the new City West health precinct, was announced by former prime minister Kevin Rudd and SA Premier Mike Rann in February last year.

Woods Bagot was commended in the offices category of the 2011 MIPIM Architectural Review Future Projects Awards and the design was the only Australian project on the 2011 winners' list. The awards will be exhibited as part of MIPIM, an international property conference attracting more than 20,000 delegates, running in Cannes, France next month.

[Will]

It's quite an achievement to be amongst the winners of the 2011 MIPIM Architectural Review Future Projects Awards.

Congratulations to Woods Bagot. This just goes to show that our architects are actually quite talented when given the chance.

http://www.mipimarfutureprojects.com/

[Amused]

Do you think they were taking the piss designing it like a large viagra tablet?
I'm kidding, I am pumped for what I thought from day one was an outstanding design.

[omada]

god that render is sexy.. lets hope the building resembles it !