Page 431 - Week 02 - Thursday, 11 February 2021
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18 December last year. Opportunity to provide feedback and comment is open for 10 weeks, closing in late February. I am advised that, as of 8 February 2021, the hospital expansion YourSay site had received almost 1,700 unique visitors, with 39 formal surveys submitted, in addition to feedback received through in-person sessions, emails, social media and website or email submissions. Of course, there is still plenty of time to respond to the survey, so I would expect this number of responses to increase substantially as people take up the various opportunities for engagement.
Multiplex and Major Projects Canberra are presenting at community councils to promote this consultation and hear feedback from engaged Canberrans across the city. I was pleased to join the team at last week’s Woden Valley Community Council meeting, which also included a presentation on the Canberra Hospital master plan, which is also currently open for consultation. The pre-DA consultation will provide more input and feedback to the development application documentation for the critical services building and associated public realm, ahead of the development application being submitted in March 2021.
The critical services building will also continue to deliver on the government’s progressive goals and targets in respect of the environment by targeting a five-star green rating. The integrated design team is working collaboratively to deliver a passive thermal design, which will reduce peak heating and cooling loads and reduce the demand on the 100 per cent electric infrastructure. The team is also aiming to reach zero net carbon emissions with the critical services building. This holistic approach to use the largest health infrastructure investment since self-government to improve sustainability alongside health outcomes is something that Canberrans can be very proud of.
Community consultation will continue through 2021, with a number of public consultation sessions occurring around Canberra in the coming months. This is supported by monthly meetings of the project’s local community reference group and consumer reference group. The Canberra Hospital Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander consumer reference group has also been consulted on the early design and will continue to be involved as the design and the project evolve.
The design team has adopted a “ground up” approach to delivering a cost-effective and sustainable critical services building. It will focus on incremental refinements throughout the design development, followed by ongoing enhancements and efficiency gains in the design and construction phases.
The territory is well-served by the Canberra Hospital expansion project team, including our ECI partner, Multiplex, along with their design consultants. Our shared commitment to engaging with the Canberra community ensures that we are delivering patient-centred health services for the future.
In summary, the Canberra Hospital expansion project is well and truly underway, with a significant amount of physical construction having already been undertaken on the Canberra Hospital campus. Major Projects Canberra is hard at work driving the
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