The $1.4 billion multi award-winning Queensland Children’s Hospital in South Brisbane brings together the history, skills and expertise of the staff of the Royal Children’s Hospital and Mater Children’s Hospital into one purpose-built facility.

Opening in late 2014, the Queensland Children’s Hospital is the major specialist children’s hospital for Queensland providing clinical, educational and support services to a state-wide network, as well as provide general health care to children in the local inner-Brisbane community. 

During the development design phase architects, builders, engineers, project managers and other consultants continued working closely with planning groups from the Royal Children’s Hospital and Mater Children’s Hospital. Service and stakeholder advisory groups, families and users also participated, ensuring a family-centred approach.

Design principles

Key principles that have underpinned the decision-making process throughout all planning and design phases were focussing on:

• providing services to children and young people based on the best clinical evidence, including families who care for them creating a centre of excellence in education;
• training and research forming a physical environment that enhances patient care;
• safety and clinical excellence and supports and promotes a healthy workforce achieving a flexible building design with infrastructure that is capable of adapting to new technologies and emerging trends in clinical practice and models of care attaining State sustainability policies and objectives;
• including greenhouse gas and peak energy reduction, water conservation and waste minimisation and recycling

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Key Data

Location: 501 Stanley St, South Brisbane QLD 4101	Architect: Conrad Gargett (now Architectus) & Lyons
Project completion: Late 2014	Hydraulic Consultant: MRP
Plumbing contractor: Christopher Contracting	Value of overall project: $1.5b
Builder: ABI Group (now Lendlease)