Page 430 - Week 02 - Thursday, 11 February 2021
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University of Canberra clinical training facilities has been welcomed by users, with the revamped Canberra Health Services library also very well received.
Projex Building Group has been engaged to deliver refurbishments of building 9, which will provide on-site accommodation for carers and families. Concept sketches have been submitted, with the draft finishes approved by Major Projects Canberra, ready to finalise with Canberra Health Services.
Off campus, positive progress has been made on the temporary car park on the former CIT Woden site. Levelling and trimming of the site is now well underway, with final stages due for completion around quarter 3 of 2021. This temporary car park will provide 1,100 car spaces for staff, freeing up space on the hospital campus for patients and visitors.
Stakeholder consultation has formed a significant component of the activities undertaken in respect of the project to date. Several consultation sessions and forums to ensure that the new main facility will meet the needs of patients, carers, families and the community have been completed. This consultation is ongoing, and I have had the pleasure of meeting a number of interested stakeholders during consultations, all of whom are providing meaningful feedback to the process.
Round 1 of the clinical design user groups has been completed for the intensive care unit, acute coronary care unit, surgical inpatient unit, sterilising services department, logistics and helipad. The design team also conducted consultation on repeatable rooms within the clinical areas of the building. Repeatable rooms are standardised rooms used throughout a hospital to ensure consistency in the delivery of health care. The consultation allows future users of the rooms to provide feedback on the fit-out prior to construction.
Round 2 of the clinical design user groups will commence in early February, followed by another workshop with consumers. These sessions will assist in finalising the design, ready for submission of the development application, and preparation of the design and construct offer to the territory from our ECI—early contractor involvement—partner, Multiplex.
The value of this consultation is demonstrated particularly in the detailed review of the emergency and peri-operative departments, which has delivered a further-improved layout for these areas. This design work has now been agreed by the Canberra Health Services executive along with the clinical champions and will inform the next stage of design development for these departments.
A review of the logistics required for the new building is also underway. It includes reviewing services such as catering, pathology, linen, laundry and waste management. Development of the early interiors design and finishes commenced in December. This will continue during the early contractor involvement phase of the project and beyond into the design and construct phase.
For the wider community, the pre-development application information package for the critical services building was made available via the project website on
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