Counties Manukau District Health Board
Health
Counties Manukau District Health Board
Occupation Date: Ongoing
Client: Counties Manukau District Health Board
RCP have been the Project Managers on-site at Middlemore Hospital since late 2004. We have undertaken a number of projects with a combined value of $130M+, working closely with the DHB’s Board, Senior Management and Staff members to ensure best practice and benchmarking principles are incorporated in the briefing, design and construction of the projects ensuring least disruption and business as usual for the hospital.
Our role includes Project Management, Contract Administration, Project Programming and Site Masterplanning.
Our first project on the Middlemore site was the Adult Medical Centre Shell Extension and fit-out. A difficult vertical extension of the existing and occupied AMC Building including the fit-out of 60 new beds on Level 3 (two wards – Respiratory and Gastroenterology) and the creation of shell space for a further 120 beds on Levels 4 & 5 which were fitted out immediately (four wards including General Surgical and Orthopedic) completing the AMC building.
The Tunnels and Corridors Redevelopment project was the most difficult and disruptive project a public hospital would ever hope to endure. Middlemore Hospital has been developed in an ad-hoc manner over many years with buildings and services tunnels constructed on multiple levels, causing the different buildings to be connected by a series of confusing, inter-connecting ramps and lifts. In order to overcome the health & safety and wayfinding issues, the project team designed, staged and built new corridors and courtyards through the heart of the existing buildings, creating a much better pedestrian flow throughout the facility.
The Edmond Hillary Block is a significant new build project to complement the existing services at Middlemore and will help the site cater for the expected future growth in acute services for many years to come. Initially opening with 60 ward beds and a new Cardiac Investigation Unit, it is anticipated that the building will be fully occupied within 2-3 years of the initial opening in July 2009.
