Melbourne’s hard-hit construction sector is bouncing back from COVID-19 with a record number of cranes dotted across the skyline. melbourneconstruction construction melbournebuilder
Data from the latest RLB Crane Index, which measures construction activity in cities around Australia, and covers the first three months to March 31, reveals a 13 per cent increase in the number of the steel frames added to the sky.It is the highest tally of cranes recorded since the inception of the index in the Spring of 2012 when the construction sector was in full swing.
RLB Oceania director of research and development Domenic Schiafone said the rise in the number of cranes was a show of strength and “remarkable resilience” by the pandemic-hit construction industry.“The challenges have been numerous since the outbreak of COVID-19 two years ago - supply chain disruptions, increased shipping and freight costs, material price rises, workers sick or isolated, pressure on local labour resources and then there’s been the rain,” Schiafone said.
Overall Sydney had the lion’s share with 348 cranes, 192 were in Melbourne and 79 were in Brisbane spread across office towers, schools, hospitals and residential towers.The new Footscray Hospital in Melbourne has 10 cranes, making it the project with the highest number of cranes on an individual site in Australia.
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