A truly iconic part of Australia’s sporting history, the Adelaide Oval is one of the world’s most famous cricket grounds.

The Oval has seen well over a century of sporting action, including the first-ever Australian home international cricket match and the world’s first-ever day/night test match, while remaining as the host of one of the five matches in the world’s longest fought cricket series, The Ashes.

With a capacity of over 55,000, the Adelaide Oval is one of the largest stadiums in Australia, and while several of the stands have been modernised during the redevelopment works, there are still a number of classical features retained by the ground. These include the original 1911 scoreboard, located on The Hill, which still showcases the Edwardian architecture of the original stadium structures.

The redevelopment of the Adelaide Oval consisted of building two new grandstands. The eastern stand and the southern stand were built to complement the western members’ grandstand, which was previously completed. The Hill at the northern end was also upgraded, with most of the major construction works on this phase of development commencing in the first quarter of 2012.

RMD Kwikform supplied 200 tonnes of Slimshor shoring and Megashor propping system to Manuele Engineers, who were the steel fabricating contractor for the Southern Stand roof in the Adelaide Oval Redevelopment.

The complex steel roof structure and erection methodology of the single-span roof meant the entire roof was to be supported both through the centreline of the roofline by a series of Slimshor towers, as well as the front main truss of the structure by three Megashor towers until the last steel element was positioned and bolted prior to total roof de-jacking.  All Megashor towers supplied were in the vicinity of 30 metres high.