Vital Healthcare, in partnership with Southern Cross Healthcare and Ormiston Hospital are providing an extension to the existing private healthcare for the community. Currently the Ormiston Hospital provides Vascular, Orthopaedic, General, and cosmetic surgery as well as endoscopy services. The Expansion allows Endoscopy to be relocated into a new suite providing much needed additional space for upgrades to the existing services.There are also shell spaces within the new build to allow for a theatre expansion as well as consultancy/Dental suites.

We were engaged early in 2021 as the Project Managers, tasked with delivery of a three-storey extension to the existing Hospital, comprising retail tenancies, Inpatient Wards, CSSD, an Endoscopy suite and link bridge to the existing hospital. Johnstaff has been specifically engaged to manage the resource consent submission, design and construction delivery phases of the project from concept design through to construction completion. The project also delivers anew on-grade car park.

The Project involves building an extension to the existing Hospital, which poses a challenge in terms of maintaining the operational continuity of the existing Hospital during the construction phase. Throughout the design process, we worked with the design team to ensure the design for the breakthrough works and adjacent areas met the user’s requirements, while considering possible staging strategies to enact the least disruption possible through the construction phase. We continue to work closely and collaboratively with the Contractor and Hospital during the construction phase and have further refined a staging strategy, for the breakthroughs, as well as ensuring a rigorous notification period is set down for progressing critical services shutdowns which will inevitably be required.