Prodical wrote:There was a core rise on the weekend - I think not at level 8 above ground level - probably only 6 to go.

It will be 11 levels above ground, to top out just slightly higher than the neighbouring Adelaide Uni building.

Also now at the top end of the range of the $/sqm of all hospital costs around the world.

Jaymz wrote:

ndru_01 wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 09, 2022 11:42 pm

Government should be getting close to finalizing their revised plan.

Anyone want to guess the latest cost estimate?

Yep, a bazillion dollars

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Seriously now, with a Labor in government in charge it's going to be 3 bazillion with no contingency[emoji6]

Government should be getting close to finalizing their revised plan.

Anyone want to guess the latest cost estimate?

I understand that the government is looking to move the Children's Hospital location from being next to the RAH to the existing police site (road safety and police museum) on Port Road, the other side of the rail lines. They would relocate the police museum etc. I'm not sure how that's possible, th...

Wonder if the additional capacity Labor promised for the nWCH during the election had any impact on feasibility of the site the previous government had been working to. May never know…


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rev wrote: Asked in February whether the election policy would delay the hospital’s scheduled 2027 opening, then Opposition leader Peter Malinauskas said: “we don’t believe so”.

If a new new site is identified then its a complete redesign, which will take time to finish.


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Listy wrote:Will the synchrotron be getting dropped into the bunker soon I wonder?

Not until the building is finished in late 2023.


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At 26:42 of this video you get a sense of the scale of the gantry that will take up the 3 bunker floors:

https://youtu.be/we69SKbZ8EA


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They’ve only just finished removing the old train control centre. Excavation for piling for 3 storeys underground for the proton therapy bunker is the next stage, which will take months.


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JanaB wrote: thought maybe the site had been broken in to overnight.

That's exactly what happened.