A pick-up in residential cranes pushed Melbourne’s total tower cranes to a two-year high, making the Victorian capital one of just three cities – along with Wollongong and the Sunshine Coast – to show an increase in tower crane numbers over the past six months, the Q1 2025 RLB Crane Index shows.
The net pick-up of 13 residential cranes – 42 were removed and 55 new ones went up across Melbourne – topped the single-digit increase in cranes on data centre projects, hotels and civil infrastructure work, according to the latest half-yearly index.
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