Right in front of noses

The infrastructure spend in Sydney over the next 10-15 years is staggering and underwrites a further 2-3 million people calling Sydney home by about  2045.

The projects below in red text are well advanced. The others are due to start progressively over the next 5-6 yrs starting from now.

1. North-west Metro Rail Line (dual tunnels and elevated skyway totalling abt 30km)
2. NorthConnex Motorway (2 x 3 lane 9km tunnels)
3. WestConnex Motorway (multi tunnel, suspended decks and widening totalling about 30km)
4. Chatswood to Bankstown Metro Rail Line (dual tunnels about 15-20km under the harbour and via the CBD)
5. Sydney to Parramatta Metro Rapid Line (dual tunnels 15-20km)
6. Proposed Metro West Line (extending west from Parramatta)
7. Sydney to Northern Beaches Motorway (dual tunnels under Syd harbour, under Middle Harbour, 10-12km)
8. Western Sydney Airport (WSA)
9. Aerotropolis surrounding WSA (just announced, technology, logistics & education city the size of Adelaide to be built over 30-40 years and providing 200,000 jobs)
10. M12 Motorway (a 12km link from the M7 to WSA)
11. Leppington to WSA Rail extension (just announced)
12. North South Rail Line to/from WSA through western Sydney

Those extra 2-3 million people will require apartments, homes, hospitals, schools and shopping centres.

Everything above requires staggering amounts of concrete.

Highly durable concrete for pavement surfacing and for tunnel linings to resist seepage and carbonation.

High strength structural elements for elevated construction, high rise apartments and office buildings and wide span multi storey shopping centres.

This work will be competively tendered and concrete will be in tight demand for this construction wave. Margins will be tested. Contractors will be looking for competitive advantage. Technical teams will be open to new ideas and products. A 5-10% reduction in required concrete volume due to improved durability and strength will significant imo. Contractors will include global corporations and consortiums.

Whilst Melbourne and Brisbane are lagging Sydney for infrastructure planning and spending, there will be catch up.

EDE can hit the ground at least cantering in Sydney on the back of technical trials completed and currently underway in America.

Why wouldn’t EDE give it a crack in Sydney as a synergistic home soil bolt on to ongoing efforts in America?

American cities could well wither and crumble waiting for an infrastructure construction program like that unfolding right now in Sydney in particular and along the eastern seaboard in general.

Dex