Construction has started on Adelaide’s new $3.2 billion Women’s and Children’s Hospital, designed by Woods Bagot with Bates Smart, Jacobs and UK practice BDP.
Revised concept designs have concurrently been unveiled following a consultation period with staff and patients, which resulted in changes to the layout and location of some departments and updates to the facade and overall building form.
The first stage of works will involve preparing the site for a new two-storey central energy facility and an eight-storey car park, which will supply 1,300 parking lots – 360 more than currently on site.
The facility will house 414 overnight beds — 56 more than the current hospital.
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Woods Bagot with Bates Smart, Jacobs and BDP
The nine-storey facility is slated to become the first 100 percent electric public hospital in South Australia. It will house 414 overnight beds — 56 more than the current hospital — with capacity to add more. The building will also feature an emergency department with 43 treatment spaces, surgical suites, a helipad and a new four-bed integrated intensive care unit (ICU) for women.
All critical care services, including birthing, theatres, paediatric ICU and neonatal ICU, women’s ICU are to be located across one level.
Changes have been made to the layout and location of some departments and updates to the facade and overall building form.
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Woods Bagot with Bates Smart, Jacobs and BDP
The hospital will be located inside the Adelaide BioMed City and within close proximity to the Royal Adelaide Hospital. Minister for Health and Wellbeing Chris Picton said, “We chose this site because we knew it was the right option to ensure the best design possible for the hospital without any limitations on the care it will be able to provide to South Australian families well into the future.”
“Consulting with staff and the community is important in getting the design layout right, and we are taking the advice of clinicians to ensure we build the best hospital possible for the long term,” he said.
The Women’s and Children’s Hospital is anticipated to be finished by 2030-31. Updated plans demonstrating the potential new layout are now on exhibition for feedback until 21 May.
Source: Architecture - architectureau
