The new Campbelltown Hospital will dwarf the existing building, but that’s what happens when more than $600 million is being spent to give us a world class health hub.
But it’s not just size the giant new hospital will offer when it is completed.
One of the features will be the solar panels which are currently being installed on Building B of the existing hospital.
This will achieve $34,000 per year in savings and annually produce approximately 236 megawatts of energy to support the ongoing operation of the building.
Hardly anyone who has recently popped in to Park Central or driven by on Appin Road or Narellan Road would have failed to notice that construction has progressed at a very rapid rate.
So what was just a patch of dirt 12 months ago is now a colossal vision of steel and structure towering above the Campbelltown cityscape.
According to a NSW update on the work, despite inclement weather, October delivered significant developments on the project front.
The 12-storey, technologically integrated, clinical services building, which will be a tower of opportunity and world-class health outcomes for the local community, has just completed all concrete pours to the Level 7 footprint.
The new building is on schedule for a proposed topping out of the helipad early next year.
Multiple active construction sites are open across the campus, with more than 500 workers onsite each day.
Installation of the hospital’s new power supply along Appin Road continues as well as work to establish a new entry and exit point at Therry Road.
Upgrades and restorative road works along Link Road and the P1/P2 car parks has commenced and extension works to the Cancer Therapy Centre are ramping up for an anticipated completion at the end of the first quarter in 2021.
Refurbishment works to the new admin hub for the general manager’s unit and allied health is almost complete with the space due to be handed over to the facility for operational commissioning later this month.
Teams are set to move in before Christmas.
Hospital Street works are progressing, with the old pharmacy currently being stripped and demolished.
Campbelltown Hospital’s signature rotunda, located in the former main entrance foyer is also being readied for demolition, with new foundations and stabilising piles being erected to support the new structure.
