Engineering Gold Coast Private Hospital

A flexible facility with room for growth

As Australia’s Gold Coast becomes ever more popular as a place to live, its health infrastructure is under growing pressure.

One new development helping to meet the demands of a rising – and ageing – population is the Gold Coast Private Hospital, a seven-floor, state-of-the-art facility from Healthscope, one of the country’s leading healthcare providers.

Location

Southport, Australia

Client

Healthscope

Architect

dwp|suters

Project Status

Completed in 2016

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A New Private Hospital for the Gold Coast

The 284-bed hospital forms a key part of the Gold Coast Health & Knowledge Precinct, an expanding complex of healthcare buildings including the $1.7 billion Gold Coast University Hospital and $150m Griffith University Health Centre.

The new private facility comprises seven floors of top-class clinical space and support accommodation, including 13 operating theatres, an emergency department, intensive care unit and maternity centre, plus consulting suites for a range of specialisms from oncology to kidney health. A kitchen, workshop and four-storey open-deck car park are incorporated in the lower levels of the 50,000m²building.

Dry walls allow hospital to be easily reconfigured as it grows

Bringing Comfort to Patients

Our services on this exceptional facility, which is designed to feel more like a hotel than a clinic, included mechanical engineering, fire protection, vertical transportation and medical gas infrastructure design.

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Designing a Future-Ready Hospital

The hospital’s owners are looking to the future, and a crucial part of the brief was to keep the building sufficiently flexible to cope with future expansion. Already, the next phase of works has been fast-tracked in the face of huge demand for the hospital’s services and will see the number of beds upped to 344, plus the addition of 10 operating theatres.

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We designed the building services with growth in mind, leaving sufficient space for new plant and equipment to serve a larger facility, and paving the way for seamless expansion. The project was also documented in REVIT 3D to ensure a fully co-ordinated design, reducing the risk of additional time and cost during construction.