RLB CRANE INDEX®
Adelaide’s RLB Crane Index® increased to 433 index points, representing a total of 26 cranes across the city.
Q3 2025
Highlights
Crane activity in Adelaide has increased since the last count, with three removals offset by seven additions from recently initiated projects. Adelaide’s RLB Crane Index® now stands at 433 points, with 26 cranes operating across the city — the highest index value recorded since the index’s inception. Residential projects lead the activity, with 12 cranes working on various developments. The commercial and health sectors follow with five cranes each, while the hotel sector records two, and both the education and mixed-use sectors have one each.
New additions:
- Education: St Aloysius College (Adelaide)
- Health: Flinders Medical Centre Redevelopment (Bedford Park, with two cranes) and the new Mount Barker Hospital Development (Mount Barker)
- Hotel: Crystalbrook Sam (Adelaide)
- Residential: 399 King William (Adelaide), Arc Bowden (Bowden), Calibre Apartments (Glenelg), Dusk Glenelg (Glenelg), and Unley 108 (Unley)
Removals were recorded at 21–25 Gray Street (Commercial), Eighty-Eight O’Connell (Residential), and Victoria Tower (Residential).
Current activity by sector includes:
- Commercial: Central Markets (Adelaide, four cranes), Modbury Hospital Carpark (Modbury), Health: Women’s and Children’s Hospital (Adelaide, two cranes)
- Hotel: Little National Hotel (Adelaide)
- Mixed Use: Lot 6003 Bowden (Bowden)
- Residential: East Rundle (Kent Town), Hungarian Club of SA (Norwood), Junction Housing Tonsley (Tonsley Park), Monde Apartments (Kent Town), Parkline (Kent Town), Student Accommodation (Mawson Lakes), Uniting on Second (Bowden)
Q3 2025
Summary
| Region | Change | |
|---|---|---|
| ADELAIDE | 7 | |
| Sector | Change | |
|---|---|---|
| AGED CARE | N/A | |
| CIVIC | N/A | |
| CIVIL | N/A | |
| COMMERCIAL | -1 | |
| DATA CENTRES | N/A | |
| EDUCATION | 1 | |
| HEALTH | 3 | |
| HOTEL | 1 | |
| MIXED USE | 0 | |
| RECREATION | N/A | |
| RESIDENTIAL | 3 | |
| RETAIL | N/A | |
Q3 2025
Crane Activity
By Region
OPENING / CLOSING COUNT COMPARISON
| OPENING COUNT | MOVEMENT | CLOSING COUNT | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q1 2025 | % | NET | Q3 2025 | % | |||
| ADELAIDE | 19 | 2.3% | 10 | -3 | 7 | 26 | 3.1% |
By Sector
OPENING / CLOSING COUNT COMPARISON
| OPENING COUNT | MOVEMENT | CLOSING COUNT | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q1 2025 | % | NET | Q3 2025 | % | |||
| AGED CARE | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0% |
| CIVIC | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0% |
| CIVIL | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0% |
| COMMERCIAL | 6 | 31.6% | 0 | -1 | -1 | 5 | 19.2% |
| DATA CENTRES | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0% |
| EDUCATION | 0 | 0.0% | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3.8% |
| HEALTH | 2 | 10.5% | 3 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 19.2% |
| HOTEL | 1 | 5.3% | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 7.7% |
| MIXED USE | 1 | 5.3% | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3.8% |
| RECREATION | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0% |
| RESIDENTIAL | 9 | 47.4% | 5 | -2 | 3 | 12 | 46.2% |
| RETAIL | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0% |
| TOTAL | 19 | 2.3% | 10 | -3 | 7 | 26 | 3.1% |
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