Adelaide Festival Plaza Tower 2

Walker Corporation

Sector: Urban, Commercial

  • 1,500+Structural Props
  • 26Concurrent Work Areas
  • 150+Ground Anchors
  • 9,000tConcrete Recycled
  • Stakeholder Engagement
  • Hoardings
  • Traffic Management
  • Cultural & Heritage Protection
  • Retention Piles
  • Capping Beams
  • Bulk Earthworks
  • Ground Anchors
  • Foundation Piles
  • Core Retention
  • Detailed Earthworks
  • Pad Footings
  • Pile Caps
  • Site Dewatering
  • Mechanical Demolition
  • Cut & Lift Demolition
  • Scaffold
  • Gantries
  • Services
  • Cranage & Rigging
  • Propping & Bracing

Unique Attributes

  • Integrated deconstruction, demolition, civil, and construction works programme
  • Live carpark for 1500 cars, including Members of Parliament as well as Casino and Theatre guests
  • Temp engineering works – W beam barrier installation; truncation of 600+ post-tensioned cables; structural and crane propping; concrete piling platform FRP; dewatering wells installation; structural transfer beams
  • Installation of suspended concrete grillage to support top down cased CFA construction with 150t piling rig; 15 x 5.3m deep 450mm diameter piles and capping beam

Key Challenges

  • Sequencing and programming of concurrent above and below ground works
  • Strict enviro controls as well as extensive stakeholder engagement and traffic management – SA Parliament House and Adelaide Casino directly adjacent to works
  • Low head room – maximum height of 2.6m
  • Deconstruction of five suspended slabs and excavation below Parliament House to construct >1000m3 raft and extensive caps to support new 37 storey tower
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