Christchurch Outpatients - Christchurch Hospital
About the Project
The Christchurch Outpatients building forms part of the wider Christchurch Hospital Redevelopment, which has seen public health services in Canterbury reach a world-class standard.
The 10,500m², six-storey building caters for 380,000 visitors annually. It includes shared clinical support areas, highly controlled environments for the provision of blood and sterile services, consultant clinics, staff administration, offices and public spaces.
Christchurch District Health Board
Client
July 2018
Completed
Christchurch
Location
The building has an importance level of 3 (IL3) and is designed to accommodate a high degree of seismic
movement for structure, partition walls and services. It was also a very technical build, requiring a key focus on quality assurance. The facility includes 620 rooms with 100 different configurations and / or functions.
There are three plant rooms in the building and a services trench linking pneumatic tube, medical gases, steam and communication services to the main hospital and laboratory.
Access to the site was a significant challenge for the team. The triangular site was surrounded by busy inner city streets including a main arterial route, as well as pedestrian routes, and was adjacent an operational hospital. Leighs successfully managed both operational and environmental impacts through a combination of thorough methodology, planning, traffic management, scheduling of works and stakeholder and client communications.
The Outpatients Building won Gold in the Health Category at the 2019 NZ Commercial Project Awards.
