Crane your neck to see crane

A Liebherr LTR11200 telescopic crawler crane (pictured right) places the cab on one of three tower cranes starting to be assembled on the new Dunedin hospital inpatient building site yesterday.

The erection of the tower cranes is a multi-day process, although appears to be progressing quite fast.

The arrival of the three large-scale cranes on the site late last week marked a major milestone for the project, Health Minister Simeon Brown said.

The cranes mean the project is transitioning from foundation works into the main vertical construction phase.

The nearly $2 billion project at present requires about 40 workers on site each day, with that number expected to increase to about 80 in the coming weeks.

The 11-storey inpatient building is the largest phase of the new hospital and is expected to be complete in late 2031.