The ship building precinct includes a number of discrete facilities, as it has grown over the time it has existed. The
Government of South Australia built a "common user facility" that includes a wharf and
Shiplift constructed between 2007 and 2010, known as
Techport Australia. It was designed by
Aurecon and constructed by
McConnell Dowell and
Built Environs. Techport was sold by the state government to the Federal Government in 2017 for . The
shiplift was supplied by
Rolls-Royce and is long and wide. It can lift from a water depth of . It is designed to allow for future expansion to length and lifting capacity of . Parts of Osborne South were designed by
Odense Maritime Technologies. In September 2021, the Morrison government scrapped the French multi-billion-dollar deal to build the
Attack-class submarines. Instead signing a monumental agreement with the United Kingdom and the United States to build 8
SSN-AUKUS submarines at the Osborne Naval Shipyard Adelaide for the
Royal Australian Navy. The first submarine is expected in the early 2040s. In November 2023, the Australian government performed a land swap with the state government, trading land on three nearby military sites for 60 acres of land around Osborne Naval Shipyard for the construction of the nuclear submarine shipyard facilities (Osborne North) and a workforce skills training centre, the federal government expect spades in the ground for the construction of site access roads and utilities diversions before the end of 2023. ==Tenants==