The redevelopment of Sutherland Hospital improved the quality of health care and enabled efficiencies in the delivery of services.
The project featured a new and expanded Emergency Department, purpose- built Children’s Emergency Unit, a new emergency short stay unit and expanded high-dependency and intensive care, as well as general medical and surgical inpatient capacity.
The project also delivered a new accessibility friendly pedestrian and traffic zone linking the hospital main entry.
Planix Projects provided Project Directorship on behalf of Health Infrastructure for this project.
The key activities that Planix Projects undertook on the project were:

• Planning hospital services to provide greater health service efficiency
• Development of the project budget and conducting value engineering workshops to meet the Client’s budget
• Developing Masterplan options and Cost Plans to feed into the Business Case
• Development of the Business Case (Project Definition Plan) and facilitating Gate way reviews
• Development of a risk management plan and conducting regular risk reporting