Cranes active across Australia
Multinational construction group RLB has revealed there were 840 construction cranes operating across Australia during the first quarter of 2025. While that was 3.3% lower than the 869 cranes recorded the year before, it still represented a significant amount of building activity.
The number of residential cranes fell 9.8% year-on-year to 487, while the number of non-residential cranes rose 7.3% to 353.
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