First Favco 500 Crane

Hansen & Yuncken purchased the first Favco 500 crane and put it to work on Communications House in William Street, Melbourne.

Special concrete formwork was developed to speed construction. AMP was an important client for Hansen & Yuncken in the 1960s, with contracts to build four buildings in three cities: two office towers in Melbourne, one in Adelaide and one in Hobart.
The Adelaide tower was the city’s tallest building at that time, and the challenging project won a gold medallion from the International Federation of Asian and Western Pacific Contractors’ Associations for the most Outstanding Construction Project completed in Australia during the 1960s, beating out the second stage of the Sydney Opera House and the Melbourne Arts Centre.