UK construction consultant Turner & Townsend has won a contract to manage the project of building a 300-bed, $592m (AU$910m) hospital to serve the growing population of Western Sydney, New South Wales (NSW).
Working for Health Infrastructure, NSW’s healthcare capital-project delivery agency, Turner & Townsend will help deliver Rouse Hill Hospital in the Blacktown local government area some 35km west of Sydney’s central business district.
It will be located near the Rouse Hill Town Centre, which this year began an AU$200m redevelopment that will add 10,600-sq-m of retail space and a new town green.
Unveiling plans last May, the NSW government said it would be the first major adult hospital built in Western Sydney in more than 40 years.
It will have an emergency and urgent care department, 300 in-patient beds, and a day surgery unit.
The government expects the Blacktown local government area’s population to grow from 397,000 in 2021 to almost 500,000 by 2041.
“Twelve years of inaction and chronic underinvestment has left communities outgrowing existing healthcare facilities,” said NSW Premier Chris Minns when unveiling the hospital last year.
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