First modular hospital delivered to remote NSW
23 August 2019
Wood & Grieve Engineers
now part of
Stantec (WGE) have shaped the healthcare
industry by delivering
New South Wales’ first modular
hospital for the
Broken Hill Community Health Centre.
Based on the compelling benefits to build and manage space faster and
the increasing trend in popularity towards
modular design, WGEs
Electrical, Mechanical and Acoustics teams
were integral in delivering the new integrated community health centre
in remote Broken Hill, constructed from 42 individual modular
components, provides a five-chair dental health facility, together with
child, family and community services.
Meisha Stevens, Acoustic Project Engineer at WGE said the overall
redevelopment of Broken Hill Community Health Centre
modernised the existing facilities of the centre, and now provides the
local community with access to first-class health services.
The
building, a dental and family health clinic facility, is off-site
from the actual Broken Hill Hospital and includes many clinical spaces
and consultations rooms on the ground floor, with offices all along the
second floor.
“WGEs Acoustics team successfully resolved issues in achieving enough
noise and vibration isolation between the offices and medical spaces
below. Our Mechanical and Electrical Engineering services also rose to
the challenge in designing the modular construction and coordinating
breaks in ductwork and cable trays,” says Meisha.
Broken Hill’s remote location, together with the lack of labourers and
skilled builders on sight lead to the modular being constructed at
Hutchies’ Toowoomba Modular Yard and then transported by road some
1386km.
“Constructing a development in a regional or remote location often leads
to increased labour charges, material supply elongation and sometimes
results quality issues. However, having the modules constructed offsite
and then transported directly to Crystal Street in Broken Hill once
complete, offered significant cost and time savings with accelerated
building time in Toowoomba, limiting the amount of time workers had to
commute to Broken Hill during construction.
“The project included achieving the stringent NSW HI ESG in a
lightweight building construction and navigating the partially finished
services and partitions while in modules. Equally important, was site
inspections during the final stages when the modules came together on
site and the final joins were made,” said Meisha.
WGE offers clients extensive modular design experience and are pleased
to see projects like Broken Hill Hospital utilising the modular as a
commercially viable solution.
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