Queensland
Brisbane
Fulton Trotter Architects provided design and documentation services for the Queensland Satellite Hospital Program which saw the delivery of Redlands Satellite Hospital, a major healthcare facility within the south-east Queensland for Queensland Health.
The project had a fixed project budget, fast tracked program, and required comprehensive consultation with a large number of stakeholders. The facilities offer minor injuries and illness care, as well as medical day, cancer care and outpatient services.
Guiding design principles were implemented to create a healthcare facility that is an accessible community space, with an emphasis on wayfinding and user wellbeing.
These principles considered the journey from street to clinic and connections between inside and outside.
The design features include bringing external materials inside, corridors with views to landscape, high-level windows, and courtyards encouraging daylight and views deep within the plan.
South East Queensland’s two new satellite hospitals are diverting hundreds of people away from busy emergency departments, early government data has revealed.
State government data shows the Ripley and Redlands satellite hospitals collective provided care to more than 4600 people from August 30 to October 15.
In the corresponding time frame the Ipswich and Redland Hospital emergency departments have seen a drop in presentations.
According to the Health Minister Shannon Fentiman, the early data indicates the number of lowacuity presentations, Category 4 and 5, at the Ipswich emergency department in September decreased about 350 compared with August.
Architectus Conrad Gargett, Architects in Collaboration
Chaboo, Artist (First Nations)
Diametric, Electrical Consultant
Diametric, Mechanical Consultant
Dunn & Moran Landscape Architects, Landscape Consultant
Edge Consulting Engineers, Structural Engineer
Meinhardt Australia, Civil Consultant
Pekol Traffic + Transport, Traffic Engineer
Philip Chun BC, Building Surveyor
PKA Acoustic Consulting, Acoustic Consultant
Solis Fire Engineer, Fire Engineer
TSA, Project Manager for Business Case and Schematic Design
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