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ArchiPro Project Summary - Sunshine Coast University Hospital: A 160,000 m² state-of-the-art facility, featuring 738 beds and a comprehensive range of healthcare services, designed to enhance patient care and community health in a world-class integrated health campus.

Title:: Sunshine Coast University Hospital
Architect:: HDR
Category:: Community/; Health and Wellness

The 160,000 m² Sunshine Coast University Hospital (SCUH) is one of Australia’s largest Greenfield hospital developments undertaken in the past decade.

Developed as part of a 20 hectare integrated health campus, the world-class design delivers a new benchmark in integrated research and training facilities, patient-centred care, and as a healthcare workplace for the Sunshine Coast community. The design vision for SCUH reflects the climatically idyllic and welcoming Sunshine Coast way of life.

Opened in 2016 with 450 inpatient beds, and expanding to 738 beds by 2021, SCUH will offer a wide range of tertiary level healthcare facilities, including an emergency department, comprehensive cancer centre, specialised medical and surgical services, maternity service, rehabilitation service, mental health unit, renal service, and interventional and diagnostic services.

This project was completed as part of a joint venture with Architectus Brisbane.

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With 11,000 employees across more than 250 locations, HDR is an award-winning integrated architecture, engineering, and planning firm with a history of challenging conventional practices and innovating across disciplines and geographies. Our interconnected, global knowledge exchange and borderless approach means that we have real-time access to research, data and technology that enables us to design solutions to the world’s greatest challenges.

Australia’s Architecture practice specialises in Health, Education, Science, Civic and Defence – and we design and deliver projects across a multitude of sectors at every scale, whether that be state-of-the-art laboratories, paradigm-shifting hospitals or healthy cities that act as antidotes to loneliness.

We have transformed hospitals from conventionally monolithic, closed systems; designed major infrastructure and precincts that impact context and communities; delivered highly adaptable education and laboratory research facilities that cultivate knowledge transfer; and built justice and defence facilities that intersect health, community and sustainability.

Key projects include Westmead Health Precinct Redevelopment; University of Sydney and Health Infrastructure NSW’s Sydney Biomedical Accelerator; CSIRO’s Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness; Chris O’Brien Lifehouse; Sunshine Coast University Hospital; University of Sydney’s Life, Earth & Environmental Sciences Building; Ed.Square Town Centre; Wollongong Central; and the Australian Defence Force Academy Redevelopment.

HDR is currently ranked No. 2 in the World Architecture Survey of Top 100 Global Architecture Practices, with six of our market sectors in the top 10.