Queensland Children's Hospital

The Project

In 2006, the Queensland Government announced that a new children’s hospital was to be created, to be known as the Queensland Children’s Hospital. The objective of the Government’s decision was to consolidate health services for children/young people (currently attending the Royal Children’s Hospital, the Mater Children’s Hospital and The Prince Charles Hospital) on to one site adjacent to the Mater Hospital campus at Woolloongabba.

Our Involvement

We have been appointed as the client’s (Queensland Health) Audit Quantity Surveyor. Responsibilities include:

• Preparation of budgets and cash flows; advice on alternate proposals to maintain or improve the cost plan
• Prepare inputs and cost plans through Master Planning, Project Definition Plan, Schematic Design, and Design Development stages
• Appointment of Managing Contractor assisting in preparation of contract documentation, review tenders and prepare report
• Negotiate Guaranteed Construction Sum (GCS) for building works, and services
• Provide construction stage services including progress valuations, monthly reports and cash flows, review and negotiation of head and sub contract variations
• Provide post-construction stage services including check, negotiate and certify actual costs of construction, adjusted GCS and bonus. Check, negotiate and certify final account. Prepare final cost report, and assist with post occupancy evaluation.

The Outcome

• To successfully deliver a program of construction works to provide up to 400 beds in a new tertiary hospital
• Create a world class health care facility for children and young people and their families which is directly supported by community, the organisation and the physical environment
• Encourage innovative models of care supported by creative health infrastructure
• Provide an innovative planning model for QCH services in metropolitan areas across Queensland
• Ensure sustainability, interactivity, security, transparency, accessibility, legibility, spontaneity and technology
• Promote evidence based design which uses the Australasian Health Facility Guidelines, where applicable to create an environment that enhances patient safety and clinical excellence
• Deliver efficiency through optimising the use of people and resources capable of achieving health services planning targets and sustaining service levels into the future
• Effectively integrate smart health logistics technology and supply chain innovations
• Provide improved training and research capability as a significant feature.