Canberra Hospital Expansion
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The Canberra Hospital Expansion Project delivers a modern emergency, surgical and critical healthcare facility on the Canberra Hospital campus. The $625M project is the largest healthcare infrastructure project ever undertaken by the ACT Government and will deliver increased capacity across Canberra Hospital’s adult intensive care, paediatric intensive care, surgical, coronary care and emergency services.
Project Overview
The major features of the project include integrated radiology and medical imaging facilities, a 10-bed short-stay Mental Health Unit, 148 inpatient beds, 22 operating theatres, 39 additional emergency department treatment spaces, relocation of the helipad to improve access to the emergency department, 55-day surgery beds, doubling of existing intensive care unit treatment spaces from 30 to 60, and 4 additional paediatric intensive care unit beds.
Our Role
The RP Infrastructure (RPI) team was initially engaged by Major Projects Canberra (MPC) to create the project’s Master Program. Due to our existing knowledge and understanding of complex brownfield projects, we were then asked to provide subject matter expert reviews as part of the tender process and ongoing program reporting.
During the design phase, the team added value to the client by coordinating a pandemic design review of the proposed design, tendered designs as well as the proposed site masterplan, providing recommendations to feed into the ongoing design development process. Additionally, we developed an Operational Commissioning and Change Management program to identify the key activities needed to achieve operation by Canberra Health Service in 2024.
Our team continued monitoring and reviewing the Contractor’s delivery of Enabling Works to ensure Main Works could commence and we also performed the Design Management role for the client.