The St George Hospital (SGH) was facing considerable challenges to meet the health demands driven by growing and aging population. SGH Stage 2 redevelopment was conceived as part of a masterplan, to address the service capacity constrains experienced in SGH.
In June 2014, the NSW State Budget announcement noted that SGH Emergency Department Redevelopment would be followed by additional works to accommodate expansion of high priority clinical services such as intensive care, high dependency and cardiac intensive care as well as surgical and procedural suite expansion and including a significant enhancement of inpatient units. Various options were tested to conceive the new Acute Services Building over the Emergency Department with new intensive care services department of 52 integrated ICU / HDU / CICU beds, 8 new operating theatres, endoscopy procedure room expansion, 128 new inpatient beds, 2 cardiac catheter laboratories, new sterilising service department and expanded support services including linen, waste, store, security and kitchen to accommodate the increase in activity.
Johnstaff were engaged to provide project management services for Parts 4 to 9 of the Delivery Phase of the project.
The engagement was further extended in to various concurrent works such as the enabling works, Smart Hospital procurement works, delivery ofICT infrastructure delivery and subsequently the planning and delivery new birthing unit and theatre refurbishment works.
The SGH Stage 2 works involved building over an operational Emergency Department which demanded detailed planning and coordination with the SGH team to ensure minimal disruptions to the hospital functions, patients and the general public.
Commissioning of the Acute Services Building demanded comprehensive planning and long dedicated hour by the team to ensure timely handovers.
