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Specialist Mental Health Services, Hillmorton Hospital
About the Project
Designed and built to a 5-Star Green Star rating to include modern, therapeutic environments with centralised courtyards, single rooms, and flexible spaces.
This makes it the first public health facility in New Zealand to achieve a 5-Star rating under the Design & As Built v1.0 framework—a significant milestone for sustainable healthcare infrastructure
Te Whatu Ora - Waitaha Canterbury
Client
October 2023
Completed
Christchurch
Location
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The facility is of complex timber construction and includes two different buildings: an Integrated Family Services Centre to house a 13-bed service for mothers and babies, inpatient and outpatient eating disorder units, plus a 16- bed child and family inpatient unit. The second building is a 16-bed High and Complex Needs Unit to provide services for patients with acute mental health illness.
The buildings have a modern, therapeutic environment with natural lighting, centralised courtyards, single rooms and flexible spaces. Other works included a Central Plant Building (Energy Centre) and staff facilities.
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The larger of the two buildings is the Integrated Family Services Centre, which is comprised of services for mothers and babies, inpatient and outpatient eating disorder units, and a child and family inpatient unit.
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The smaller High and Complex Needs Unit provides services for patients with acute mental health illnesses.
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The project was designed and built to a 5-Star Green Star rating to include modern, therapeutic environments with centralised courtyards, single rooms, and flexible spaces.
