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Images released by Australian Naval Infrastructure (ANI), which is leading delivery of the yard, show construction work on the production demonstration facilities at Osborne Naval Shipyard, plus a $502m Skills and Training Academy campus.<\/p>\n

The production demonstration area will help test and validate processes and procedures ahead of submarine construction starting in the late 2020s.<\/p>\n

About 1100 construction workers are working on the 75ha Lefevre Peninsula site, where about $1.9bn worth of contracts have already been let.<\/p>\n

Once complete, the yard is forecast to have required 573km of concrete piles, 126,000 tonnes of structural steel, 672,000sq m of cladding (equivalent to 42 Adelaide Ovals), and 155,000 tonnes of reinforcing bars (equivalent to 21 Eiffel Towers).<\/p>\n

ANI managing director Andrew Seaton on Wednesday revealed a joint venture as capability partner in the yard\u2019s development and delivery, between Laing O\u2019Rourke Construction Australia and Amentum Australia. <\/p>\n

He said the joint venture was experienced in complex infrastructure delivery, including nuclear-licensed facilities in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe nuclear-powered submarine construction yard is one of the most significant infrastructure undertakings in Australia\u2019s history and will be central to enabling Australia\u2019s future nuclear-powered submarine capability,\u201d Mr Seaton said. <\/p>\n

Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles and Premer Peter Malinauskas last Friday announced another $4.6bn would be ploughed into the yard<\/a>, following the first $3.9bn down payment in February.<\/p>\n

The Sunday Mail in February exclusively revealed the $30bn-plus construction plan <\/a>for the submarine yard, billed as the world\u2019s most advanced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Images released by Australian Naval Infrastructure (ANI), which is leading delivery of the yard, show construction work on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69538,37413,69529,69576,50024,69559,48099,54116,69554,69532,69563,69537,69544,69527,69550,69571,69553,69533,69531,69536,69566,395,12191,69541,69548,69542,69573,69569,23,57793,249,69564,69540,69567,69555,69539,26267,35740,69545,36801,69570,8480,69574,47871,69575,69556,69560,59628,69572,59720,41889,69530,69546,69558,69552,33960,69577,69547,69561,69565,69534,69557,19031,69562,69535,69543,38937,50326,69528,69551,69549,37120,69568,22441],"class_list":["post-60951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-adelaide","tag-ani-managing-director-andrew-seaton","tag-images","tag-s-development-and-delivery","tag-s-future-nuclear-powered-submarine-capability","tag-s-history","tag-s-nuclear-submarine-yard","tag-48099","tag-000-tonnes","tag-000sq-m","tag-1100-construction-workers","tag-1100-workers","tag-69537","tag-21-eiffel-towers","tag-30bn","tag-42-adelaide-ovals","tag-573km","tag-69553","tag-a-502m-skills-and-training-academy-campus-the-production-demonstration-area","tag-a-huge-shed","tag-a-joint-venture","tag-about-1-9bn-worth","tag-adelaide","tag-adelaide-oval","tag-amentum-australia","tag-ani","tag-another-4-6bn","tag-aukus-nuclear-powered-submarine-yard","tag-aukus-submarine-yard","tag-australia","tag-australian-naval-infrastructure","tag-bars","tag-capability-partner","tag-cladding","tag-complex-infrastructure-delivery","tag-concrete-piles","tag-construction-work","tag-contracts","tag-delivery","tag-deputy-prime-minister-richard-marles-and-premer-peter-malinauskas","tag-february","tag-february-the-sunday-mail","tag-footage","tag-laing-orourke-construction-australia","tag-last-friday","tag-mr-seaton","tag-nuclear-licensed-facilities","tag-osborne-naval-shipyard","tag-payment","tag-processes-and-procedures","tag-shape","tag-site","tag-storiesabout","tag-striking-progress","tag-structural-steel","tag-submarine-construction","tag-test","tag-that-dwarfs","tag-the-30bn-plus-construction-plan","tag-the-75ha-lefevre-peninsula-site","tag-the-first-3-9bn","tag-the-first-major-site-works","tag-the-huge-building-works","tag-the-joint-venture","tag-the-late-2020s-aa-subscriber-exclusives","tag-the-most-significant-infrastructure-undertakings","tag-the-nuclear-powered-submarine-construction-yard","tag-the-numbers","tag-the-pictures","tag-the-production-demonstration-facilities","tag-the-submarine-yard","tag-the-united-kingdom-aa-app-download-box","tag-the-world","tag-the-yard","tag-wednesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}