New Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia
Aurecon leads building services engineering for the New WCH to deliver a 100% all-electric tertiary hospital for South Australian women and children.
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The Australian Institute for Infectious Disease (AIID) is a collaborative project to enhance Australia’s capability in infectious disease and public health research to drive greater speed, innovation, equity and sovereign capability in our response to emerging infectious diseases, global health challenges and pandemics.
The collaboration of University of Melbourne, Doherty Institute and Burnet Institute, with the backing of the Victorian State Government, will see a state-of-the-art high containment health research facility created in Melbourne’s world-leading Biomedical Precinct.
Aurecon is appointed as lead engineers and project managers for this visionary project.
A state-of-the-art high-containment facility that accelerates infectious disease research while prioritising sustainability and occupant wellbeing.
Design guidelines for the AIID institute reflect a world-leading facility of critical research infrastructure, to be as much a place for people as it is for accelerating research and innovation into infectious diseases. The design focuses on providing spaces that contribute to the health and well-being of its occupants.
The main outcomes include:
Aurecon is using an integrated approach to the building’s design to develop a high-performing facade optimised for energy efficiency, thermal comfort and daylighting. The structural and building services design will be characterised by low-carbon materials and equipment and fixtures that are energy and water efficient.
The ground floor will offer a connection to the broader biomedical precinct and external landscaping. The floors above will provide laboratory and workspaces designed to maximise natural daylight and support productivity and wellbeing.
The new state-of-the-art AIID facility will include:
With a long history of delivering building projects together, Aurecon and the University of Melbourne were able to align expectations on the AIID project and proactively manage risks. Our systematic project management approach was adapted to the specific needs of this building so that assurance, support and guidance are provided during each stage of the works.
What is evolving is a building with the required infrastructure and capacity for researchers to detect, analyse, manage and develop treatments for infectious diseases.
Once complete, AIID will accommodate more than 1,000 scientists, academics, students and public health experts, and has the potential to support up to 5,000 jobs across the research ecosystem.
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