The 13-storey Prince of Wales Hospital Acute Services Building, which opened last year, was delivered as part of the first stage of the Randwick Campus Redevelopment. The $870 million project included an expanded adult emergency department, intensive care unit and psychiatric emergency care centre, a new digital operating theatre, central sterilising services department, additional inpatient beds, and two bridge connections into the existing hospital and Royal Hospital for Women. When completed, the Randwick Campus Redevelopment will establish the Randwick Health and Education Precinct containing world-class education, research and healthcare organisations in one location.
The Judging Panel commended the project as the first major upgrade to the Prince of Wales Hospital in 25 years, delivering social infrastructure that will support innovative approaches to acute healthcare and contemporary clinical practice. The Judges were impressed by how the project team overcame delivery challenges posed by both its confined site and live operational environment, being adjacent to critical healthcare services operating throughout construction during the throngs of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Panel was impressed by the use of innovative delivery methods to mitigate health and safety risks, such as vibration, dust and other construction impacts, on existing patients.