Building at Scale

The Gold Coast University Hospital is an exciting new $1.76 billion tertiary greenfield hospital located on a 20 hectare, landscaped site on the Gold Coast. GCUH Architects, a consortium including Silver Thomas Hanley, PDT and HASSELL were commissioned in 2006 to deliver this world class facility, the most significant project of the Queensland Government's $2 billion Health Capital Works program.

This new 175,000 sqm, 9 storey tertiary teaching health facility is comprised of seven main buildings. Facilities include 750 beds (70% single patient bedrooms), state-of-the-art clinical services, comprehensive cancer centre, emergency department, onsite helipad, 116 consult rooms, 65 bed ICU, 27 room interventional and procedural suite, 72 bedroom mental health unit with associated support accommodation, a women's and children's precinct including 48 bed maternity unit, 18 room birth suite, 44 cot NICU and 42 bed paediatric unit, and passive healing landscaped grounds for patients, staff and visitors.

The GCUH is the largest public health infrastructure project undertaken in Australia to date and the first public hospital in Australia to feature over 70% single patient bedrooms. The master plan objective of the project was to provide a state-of-the-art clinical teaching and research facility hospital in a parkland setting.

John Gerrard, Director of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Queensland Health