New Women’s and Children’s Hospital
Port Road / North Terrace, Adelaide
$3.2 billion
Piling and enabling works under wayHundreds of piles 16 to 31 m deep are going in on the former police barracks site. Completion is scheduled for 2031.
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Adelaide’s live projects, and the industries we serve.
South Australia is in the middle of its biggest construction program in a generation. Here is where the material is moving in October 2026, and how SA Bulk supports the contractors delivering it.
Industries we serve
Infrastructure, tunnelling, roads, mining, quarries and plants: the sectors that move the most material in South Australia, served by our Civil Materials and Haulage divisions.
Infrastructure
Major project packages: imported fill, select material and pavement products in, spoil out, delivered on per-tonne rates or with embedded trucks on day rates.
Tunnelling
Tunnel spoil to disposal and reuse facilities, and backfill, bedding and drainage media back to the portal, with the truck cycle planned around the TBM and the surface storage shed.
Roads
PM1, PM2 and PM3 base and sub-base, sealing aggregates and sands, selected to DIT Master Specification and Austroads requirements by our civil engineers.
Mining
Bulk cartage and construction materials for mine sites, processing facilities and haul roads, backed by the group’s record hauling for resources clients in Western Australia.
Quarries
Rate-card cartage from the bin to the customer’s site with dedicated trucks, directly employed drivers and spare cover, so the quarry’s customers get their loads.
Plants
Aggregates and sands into concrete, asphalt and precast plants, delivered to the bin on a schedule that keeps the plant producing, with product conformance checked on the way in.
We also supply builders, subdivision developers, councils and demolition contractors who need bulk material and a truck that turns up.
Live major projects, October 2026
The projects shaping demand for quarry products, fill and spoil haulage in and around Adelaide right now.
Headline project
River Torrens to Darlington (T2D)
The final 10.5 km of Adelaide’s North–South Corridor: twin tunnels under the inner south-west, linked by open motorway, completing a 78 km traffic-light-free run from Gawler to Old Noarlunga.
Three tunnel boring machines, Elizabeth, Mary and Catherine, are now underground at the same time, a first for an Australian road project. Spoil is carried by conveyor to the surface, then trucked to Gillman and a spoil reuse facility in the north-west. More than 5,000 people are working on the project.
Where SA Bulk fits. Our new Scania truck-and-dog sets were ordered to the T2D vehicle specification. We supply and cart quarry products for project contractors and can cart material arising from the works. Call Bradley Atkins to discuss rates and availability.
- Project value
- $15.4 billion
- Tunnels
- Southern 4.5 km twin tunnels, Northern 2.2 km twin tunnels
- Excavated spoil
- About 7.5 million tonnes
- Tunnel boring machines
- Three, each about 100 m long and 3,500 tonnes
- Stage
- Tunnelling under way; roughly two years of boring ahead
- Completion
- 2031
Osborne Submarine Construction Yard
Osborne, Lefevre Peninsula
$30 billion program
Enabling works under wayAustralia’s nuclear-powered submarine yard: a $3.9 billion first commitment, a new link road open, and the Skills and Training Academy under construction. Nearly 10,000 jobs across the program.
Marion Road Upgrade
Cross Road to Anzac Highway
$367 million
Under delivery, finishing late 2026Tram grade separations at Marion Road and Cross Road, intersection widening and new paths through Adelaide’s inner south-west.
Mount Barker and Verdun interchanges
South Eastern Freeway, Adelaide Hills
$150 million
Under construction to late 2027Freeway interchange upgrades for the Hills growth area, alongside the $365.8 million new Mount Barker Hospital, now topped out and due for completion by the end of 2027.
Flinders Medical Centre expansion
Bedford Park
About $500 million
Under construction, due 2028A 98-bed acute services building with new theatres and intensive care, part of a 160-bed expansion across Flinders and the Repat precinct.
Riverlea Park
City of Playford, Adelaide’s north
12,000 homes
Stages under constructionWalker Corporation’s master-planned community for around 40,000 people, with more than 2,700 residents already living there and a district sportsground and college being built in 2026. A few minutes from our Burton yard.
Adelaide CBD towers
Festival Plaza, Central Market, North Terrace, Pirie Street
$2.4 billion+
Under constructionFestival Tower Two ($1.3 billion), Market Square ($400 million), Keystone Tower ($400 million) and Arcadia ($350 million) are all out of the ground, with basement excavation and concrete supply to match.
Renewal SA housing projects
Playford Alive, Seaton, Noarlunga, Southwark Grounds, Tonsley
5,000+ homes
Staged works to 2035Government-led renewal across the north, west and south: Seaton (about 1,450 homes), Southwark Grounds (about 1,700), Noarlunga (626 by 2031) and continuing releases at Playford Alive.
Project figures are from public government and developer announcements current to October 2026 and will change as the projects progress. SA Bulk is an independent supplier and is not an appointed contractor on these projects unless stated.
How we support project contractors
Major projects need trucks that are compliant on day one and still turning up in month eighteen.
Compliant from the first load
Inducted, trained drivers, site clearances arranged in advance, Chain of Responsibility built into scheduling, and a docket for every load.
Capacity that scales with the program
Five semi tippers today, new truck-and-dog sets arriving in stages, and a group fleet of more than 100 trucks behind us.
Spoil out, material in
Excavated material to the disposal or reuse facility and imported fill or base back to site, with the cycle planned to cut empty running wherever the facility and quarry align.
Hours that match yours
Early starts, night shifts and weekend work where the project runs around the clock, with fatigue management planned into every roster.
Working on one of these projects?
Call for a per-tonne rate, a day rate for embedded trucks, or our capability statement for your supplier register.