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Hollywood Hospital’s venerable history dates to World War II. It was originally built as a 300-bed military hospital before, from the mid-1940s, undergoing continuous expansion and redevelopment. In 1994 Ramsay Health Care (RHC) became the new owner/operator, and currently Hollywood Private Hospital (HPH) is the largest private hospital in Australia. This commitment over the years to ongoing organic growth created a
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Phone: (08) 9200 2500 www.georgiou.com.au planning challenge for future expansion, prompting RHC to bring on board health Architects Silver Thomas Hanley to assist with the development of a master plan vision for the HPH campus.
According to Silver Thomas Hanley director Basil Vogas, “The master plan is critical in helping RHC determine an expansion and renewal program which supports the ongoing and uninterrupted delivery of outstanding health care, while creating an ordered and efficient major health service.”
All of which brings us to the latest chapter in the Hollywood Private Hospital story. In early 2020 Georgiou Group was awarded a $55.7 million contract by Ramsay Health Care to deliver Hollywood Private Hospital’s South Block and new emergency department, designed by Silver Thomas Hanley.
In addition to the emergency department, the project brief comprised construction of three 30-bed wards (including tenancies, isolation room and expansion of the current radiology unit), a multilevel carpark and upgrades to the old building’s front of campus.
As Georgiou building general manager Steve Okill noted at the time, “We recently completed the Hollywood Consulting Centre and are finishing works on the mental health expansion, where our team has showcased their strengths in service integrations and working within the constraints of a live hospital environment.
“Having delivered a number of medical upgrades over the past decade, we look forward to bringing together our experienced team to deliver another piece of vital medical infrastructure to the Nedlands campus.”
Major Project Milestones Completed in September 2021, the project is especially significant as it is the first privately operated emergency department north of the river.
The South Block delivers 90 new beds (including a shelled floor) and a state of the art, patient-centric emergency department. The ground floor of the South Block connects directly into the main hospital north-south corridor and includes space for future tenants. Levels 1 and 2 of South Block contain general wards with 30 beds on each level, while Level 3 is a shelled space for a future ward fit-out.
“The recent projects at HPH,” notes Basil Vogas, “are focused on revitalising the campus aesthetic with considered design using modern cladding materials. Visually the South Block building design comprises a monolithic white cube that hovers over a dark base. The upper level ward exterior utilises a standing seam steel cladding in matte white Colorbond finish, with staggered windows punched out to create movement and a softness across the façade.
“The white cube is softened with gold powder-coated sunshades, staggered vertically on the east and west façades, and horizontally with one side on the north façade which creates a sense of movement across the façade.
“The ground floor façade is dark tinted full height glazing, which gives the appearance that the white cube is floating. The white
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floating canopy along the entrance to South Block serves as a major wayfinding element visible from Monash Avenue, to guide patients and ambulances to the entry to the emergency department.”
The six-storey emergency department, adds project manager Jay Whitman, “is built with a combination of conventional pad footings and raft slabs with piled foundations. The reinforced, post-tensioned concrete structure is surrounded by a lightweight steel and composite cladded façade with a steel plant room located on the roof.”
One key aesthetic aspect of the project is a mural in the emergency department entrance. According to Georgiou, the team floated the idea of transforming a plain wall in the entrance and the client immediately agreed. The mural was designed by local artist Esti Nagy, and the theme was explored with local year three students from Hollywood Primary School (next door to the hospital) in a set of workshops.
“During the workshops, Esti shared with the students her process for designing and painting murals, and together they studied local flora and fauna including threatened red-tailed black cockatoos (“karrak” in Noongar), which often fly over the school and the hospital. The children drew their own cockatoos, collected inspiration from the nearby Hollywood reserve, and together created a collaged artwork of a cockatoo flock flying over native bushland.” Meeting the Challenge The Georgiou team had to overcome numerous challenges including the demolition of the existing two-storey building from the 1940s, reconfiguration of entrances/exits to the existing building to finish tie-in works, and dust/vibration minimisation. All works were carried out during a live hospital environment, with the team working closely with the client to minimise disruption to hospital operations.
The western side of the emergency department building ties in with the existing hospital via the hospital main corridor, and this proved to be the most challenging aspect of the project. With the department surrounded by existing buildings on all four sides, the project team was required to reconfigure some of the existing entrances and exits to the existing building so patients, staff and visitors didn’t need to interact through the construction site. The main corridor had to remain open for the full extent of the construction period, as it is the main spine of the hospital and connects both old and new.
“The project team designed an innovative solution to ensure the interface would work. This involved constructing a temporary hoarding tunnel within the existing corridor with a load-rated roof and statutory lighting and fire detection.
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The hospital was able to utilise this hoarding tunnel whilst we built the cantilevered first floor slab over the top of the corridor,” explains Jay.
“The slab was designed to provide impact protection to the public who were using the corridor underneath and also to take the temporary construction loads of the scaffolding that we built over the slab to facilitate the installation of the façade and concrete structure on the levels above.
“Once the scaffold was removed, the same cantilever structure became the structural component of the roof over the existing hospital corridor. We were then able to install the majority of new services and ceiling framing and lighting sections to that corridor from on top of the load-rated panels. This allowed the corridor to remain open during the entire construction period.”
Another factor was noise, dust and vibration during the demolition works. Due to the proximity to existing structures, the team installed filters over the top of the existing airconditioning units to minimise dust issues, and also had a water mister cannon in place to spray over rubble and the excavator on site to suppress dust.
As for major successes and achievements, the Georgiou team completed the carpark's first suspended slab pour within a 12-hour window. Containing 430 cubic metres of concrete, it was the largest single pour completed by Fine Form – one of Perth's largest concrete subcontractors.
For specific elements, the team utilised a 360-degree colour laser scanner – which makes 3D reality capture faster than before – as a trial. This technology was used to scan both existing and new structures to confirm locations, inform design and check asconstructed quality.
“With a measuring rate of up to two million points per second and advanced HDR imaging system, the creation of coloured 3D point clouds can be completed in under two minutes,” notes Jay. “Plus, automated targetless field registration (based on VIS technology) and the seamless, automated transfer of data from site to office reduce time spent in the field and further maximise productivity. This helped manage project complexities with accurate and reliable 3D representations.”
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