NEW HOSPITAL BUILDING SOARS TO NEW HEIGHTS
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The new 14-storey Paediatric Services Building at the $619 million Children’s Hospital at Westmead Stage 2 Redevelopment has reached its full height of nearly 70 metres.

As the centrepiece of the hospital’s redevelopment project, the new 14-storey Paediatric Services Building will provide new and expanded critical and acute healthcare services.

Minister for Health Ryan Park and Member for Parramatta Donna Davis visted the site for a traditional ‘topping out’ ceremony to mark the significant construction milestone.

The building will include:
  • A new and expanded Neonatal Intensive Care Unit 
  • A new and expanded Paediatric Intensive Care Unit 
  • Cancer services including a new day oncology treatment centre and inpatients units
  • New perioperative unit containing operating theatres, cardiac catheterisation labs and interventional laboratory 
  • Statewide service for burns, offering inpatient and outpatient facilities
  • A new pharmacy and oncology pharmacy 
  • A new Surgical Short Stay Unit
Internal and external works for the new building are well underway, including installation of facade panels, designed to illustrate the movement and reflections of the local waterways and riverbanks adjacent to the hospital.

Around 300 workers are currently working at the site each day, and this is expected to increase to around 500 a day at the peak of construction and fit out. The building is due to be completed in 2025.

The redevelopment also includes a new multi-storey car park, a revitalised ‘KidsPark’ forecourt with new food and beverage options for staff, patients and their families, an Aboriginal Gathering Space, three new playgrounds to suit children of all ages and abilities, a pet park, and refurbishment of existing spaces within the hospital, including:
  • Relocation of the Clinical Research Centre, Gait Analysis Laboratory and Pathology Collections into new fit-for-purpose spaces
  • Expansion of pathology laboratories
  • Pathway upgrades for improved pedestrian movement through the health precinct
The Stage 2 Redevelopment of The Children’s Hospital at Westmead is being delivered by Health Infrastructure in partnership with the Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network, with Roberts Co as the principal contractor.