Logan Hospital serves one of Queensland’s largest growth corridors and has one of the busiest emergency departments in the State, with demand for health services continuing to grow rapidly.

To ease pressure on the hospital, the Stage 2 expansion will add a new high-tech modular ward as construction continues on the hospital’s major vertical expansion.

The expansion will increase capacity at the hospital through an additional 112 beds, ten additional operating theatres, six endoscopy rooms, chemotherapy/ day therapy spaces, three catheterisation laboratories and central sterilisation service department.

This project’s modular nature means that it is built entirely off-site, taken apart in truck-sized modules and transported to the construction site where it is reassembled. The objective is to complete as much of the building as possible off-site, in a controlled environment so as to not disrupt the existing functionality of the hospital. The ward will completed to approximately 90% with plumbing, medical gases, clinical lighting and nurses’ stations all fitted off-site. The building will be installed over the course of 3 days with a 6 week commissioning process reducing on-site works to only 3 months.

Challenges included integrating the new building into the existing site infrastructure and demolishing the existing buildings. Through strong collaboration and communication with MSH advisors, Hutchinson Builders Design Managers and incumbent services contractors, we have been able to provide clever solutions to mitigate risks and overcome complex challenges involved in the expansion of the hospital.

Construction on Stage 2 of the hospital’s expansion commenced early 2024, with the new beds and facilities expected to be ready for use in 2027.