Centre for Children's Health ResearchQueensland's largest children’s health research investment

Children are our future and the state of Queensland aims to see them leading healthier lives by nurturing new and better methods for promoting child health and treating common childhood illnesses and injuries. The Centre for Children's Health Research in South Brisbane brings together researchers from a range of specialist areas. The new facility is so far the largest single investment in children’s health research in Queensland.

The vision became a reality as the result of a partnership between Queensland Health and some of the state’s leading research organisations: Children’s Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service, University of Queensland, Queensland University of Technology and the Translational Research Institute. The Centre has specialists in paediatric infectious diseases, critical care, nutrition and growth, burns, respiratory illness, environmental health, allied health, and more.

Aurecon project managed Queensland’s integrated hub of specialist research dedicated to children’s health. As the Queensland Government’s program and project manager, Aurecon played an integral role in all aspects of the project’s lifecycle:

• The business case to articulate the need and benefit of the research centre for funding to be approved
• Managed construction phase services of the pathology facility to coincide with the opening of the adjacent Queensland Children’s Hospital
• Managed the building design process and construction phase services on behalf of our client
• Applied best practice design standards
• Full consideration of lifecycle costing parameters when selections were made for engineering systems, materials and finishes
• Overseeing design and construction of functional buildings which reflect the specific requirements of stakeholders
• Development and maintenance of a suitable communication and consultation process for the project
• Development of detailed schedules for each project within the programme of works which were then integrated to ensure a single strategy for delivery, including transparent communication with all interdependencies
• Project delivery and budgetary oversight