WESTERN DIAGNOSTICS PATHOLOGY
THE BUILDERS CHOICE Western Diagnostics Pathology
New facility for Western Diagnostics Pathology
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athology is a vital service that helps doctors and specialists correctly diagnose their patients, with around 70% of all medical decisions relying on pathology. Founded in 1972 by Dr D J McCully and four other pathologist partners from the Sir Charles Gardner Hospital, Western Diagnostics Pathology - now known as Western Diagnostics Pathology (WDP) - has expanded rapidly to become recognised as the pre-eminent Western Australian pathology provider. Through Specialist Diagnostic Services (SDS) and its brands including Western Diagnostics Pathology and Vetpath, the parent company Healius has become one of Australia’s largest private pathology service providers. Each year, SDS analyses and reports on over 15 million patient cases from samples collected across its Australian collection centres. The company’s expansion continues with a relocation from its core laboratory in Myaree to new headquarters in Jandakot Business THE TEAM
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Park. The new facility will replace Western Diagnostic Pathology’s ageing central laboratory in Myaree and Vetpath’s Specialist veterinary pathology laboratory in Ascot. Construction commenced on December 14, 2020 and continued for 83 weeks. The site size is 19,500m2 with a floor area over three floors of 6,000m2. The final combined cost was $25,459,689. Design and construction by PS Structures PS Structures were engaged to carry out the design and construction of the laboratory facility for the project. Their initial contract was to carry out the base build only on behalf of the lessor, Jandakot Holdings. PS Structures engaged Meyer Shircore to design the base build aspect of the project. Meyer Shircore & Associates worked closely with JAH, their Project Manager IPS, and PS Structures to develop a concept design in response to the tender conducted by Western Diagnostics. The complex nature of the brief required a collaborative approach by all parties, resulting in a project that exceeded WDP’s expectations and delivered a functional, aesthetically pleasing and well-crafted addition to the Jandakot Airport Commercial Precinct. The building design combined the functionality of a high tech laboratory with its ancillary service delivery and back-of-house functions, together with the aesthetic requirement for the facility to also serve as the administrative, corporate and technical headquarters for the Western Diagnostic Pathology business. Building materials The building materials combine the functionality of concrete panels, metal wall cladding and concrete blockwork. Meyer Shircore then used the aesthetic of combining smooth and split face alabaster concrete blocks into a graduating pattern across the building facades, together with repeating bands of vertical colour in the matt Colorbond finish metal façade of the laboratory block, as
