McConnel Smith & JohnsonDesigning for Health, Research & Education

MSJ’s balanced approach to function and architecturally considered space is evidenced by our team’s expertise across the health sector, designing buildings on complex campuses for hospitals, community care centres, research centres and places of tertiary education.

Belconnen Community Centre, ACT

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The methodology we typically employ on a health project is based on the identification of defined stages of work.

Design BriefEstablishes the functional content, operational policies, engineering services, and gross area target. The secondary brief comprises room data sheets for each room.

Schematic DesignCarried out in close consultation with the client and users, to develop the master plan and design brief.

Master PlanEstablishes the overall physical strategy for the facility with regard to siting access, optimal interrelationships & future growth.

ConstructionInput as required by the particular project delivery system, ranging up to full inspection and contract administration.

Detailed DesignCarried out systematically and with periodic design reviews by the full project team including client, project manager, users and consultants.

DocumentationCarried out using our BIM system, with organisation and resources tailored to an agreed program.

Blacktown School of Medicine, Clinical School & Research Centre, NSW

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Our experience emphasizes the view that when designing health projects, the early stages of development are critical. The site’s orientation, access, overall planning and the resultant study options are often the most crucial factors in the design process. Often iterative in process, the analysis further defines the project objectives. Once fully explored, the direction taken can be made with confidence to maximise the health service benefits, as well as the community and financial objectives.The right decisions up front, will be important to the well-being of the building and ultimately the well-being of the building occupants, patients, visitors and staff alike.

Early Decision Making

Blacktown School of Medicine, Clinical School & Research Centre, NSW

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Within the parameters of brief and budget MSJ provides quality designs that respond to context, build-ability and programme deadlines. Working alongside the client and project quantity surveyors, we help to ensure early confirmation of budget adequacy for a project by balancing accommodation and functional requirements within the funding allowance. MSJ also aims to optimise the balance between initial cost and operating cost through a detailed analysis of options that examines functional solutions within potential building arrangements.

MSJ’s management team aspires to build a system of positive relationships between the client stakeholders, users, consultants and the community. Our cooperative approach helps to ensure the complex criteria of the project control group, managers, consultants, authorities and the brief are described and assessed collectively, in a friendly and accessible manner. The team enjoys engaging with the diverse range of people and personalities involved in both the design process and during construction.

Balancing Quality, Time and Cost

Considerate Communication

Cairns Base Hospital, QLD

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MSJ’s fundamental philosophy of a balanced, multi skilled design approach assures excellence in the quality of our architectural environmental management. MSJ is committed to promoting sustainable development and design practices. Many MSJ buildings, past and present, have embraced the principles of ESD through use of both passive and active green design principles. In addition, MSJ’s staff undertake professional development with the Green Building Council of Australia to ensure that we keep up with the latest issues in Sustainable Design and that appropriate adoption of ‘Green Star’ practices are actively pursued for new projects to maximise the potential benefits and opportunities that are available.

Sustainability

Top and far right: Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre, VIC

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Olivia Newton John Cancer and Wellness Centre - Winner: Excellence in Construction of Commercial Building over $80M at the Master Builders Association of Victoria Awards, BPN Sustainability Awards Public Building and Urban Design Finalist, American Healthcare Environment Award, Centre for Health Design (honourable mention), AIRAH Awards Finalist in Excellence in Sustainability

Cairns Hospital - Australian Steel Institute High Commendation in Steel Excellence

Wollongong Hospital - Wollongong City Council Architectural Design Awards, Dulux Colour Awards Commercial Exterior Winner

Princess Alexandra Hospital - Queensland Architecture Awards Brisbane Building of the Year

Westmead Children’s Hospital - The Royal Australian Institute of Architects Merit Award for Architecture, Dulux Colour Awards Commercial Exterior Commendation

Auckland City Hospital - Property Council of New Zealand Rider Hunt Building Award, New Zealand Institute of Architecture Award for Architecture

Southland Hospital - New Zealand Institute of Architecture Award for Architecture

Awards

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Ian’s diverse experience over the last 25 years has included upgrades to existing complex health campuses and the design of new major teaching and referral hospitals. More recently, Ian has focused on the master planning and feasibility phases for large health projects in Australia, New Zealand and Asia. Ian’s detailed knowledge and understanding of various procurement options and their implication on the design capital cost and recurrent costs of health campuses has enabled him to complete various roles for Government and private bodies as expert advisor and reviewer.

Special Expertise

Detailed knowledge of latest design trends and operational policies for Level 4-5 and 5-6 hospitals within Australia.

Specialist skills in Cancer Care and Patient Centred Design practices within first class health care facilities.

Ian Moon

DirectorBArch (Hons) NSWIT

Mark Willett is a highly innovative architect and urban designer with a extensive background of experience as MSJ’s Design Director on major institutional projects, including health. He has 35 years experience working in the conceptual and planning stages of a project and, in this role, provides innovative design leadership. Mark’s most recent experience includes Tamworth Hospital, Blacktown Clinical School and Research Centre, Cairns Base Hospital, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Bernie Banton Centre and Ingham Health Research Institute.

Special Expertise

Highly experienced in the establishment of design and urban design guidelines for the development of infrastructure and institutional projects.

Experienced in a diverse range of projects where complex funding, performance, technical and user relationships dictate a high level of commitment to the client, the design process and the end users.

Mark Willett

Director BArch (Hons) NSWIT RAIA

John Zadro is responsible for implementing design documentation and coordination on MSJ’s health projects. His experience includes major teaching hospitals and specialised health facilities, involving research and education in New South Wales, Queensland and New Zealand. Performing a key role within MSJ’s design team, John is highly experienced in liaison with hospital representatives & user groups across a range of clinical disciplines and departments.

Special Expertise

Extensive experience in documentation and service co-ordination of large healthcare facilities.

Highly experienced in liaison with hospital representatives & user groups across a range of clinical disciplines and departments.

Extensive experience in the administration and coordination of CAD documentation in the office.

John Zadro

DirectorBArch (USyd)

The Team

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Kathy is an architect and interior designer with extensive experience in MSJ’s major health, research and education projects. She has gained valuable knowledge and skills through a wide variety of projects in various roles ranging from the early stages and the formulation of key design criteria, through to documentation and construction. Her on site experience is considerable and helps inform MSJ’s design process.

Special Expertise

As a highly experienced architect in interiors as well as the building envelope and surrounding context on projects of different size and focus, Kathy is able to synthesise overall concepts and requirements at the early stages of design development and to take principal responsibility for the co-ordination and integration of interior design.

Kathy Lakis

Senior AssociateBArch UNSW MDIA

With over twenty years of experience at MSJ as an architect, Ian Empson manages and integrates leading computer technology with design workflows to facilitate MSJ’s efficient architectural documentation. That responsibility includes the organisation of MSJ’s Building Information Modelling capabilities (BIM), to strategically coordinate the design process within the office, liaise with consultants and to electronically enable joint venture arrangements on projects such as Cairns Base Hospital.Ian also manages MSJ’s briefing system, which is essential to ensure the critical coordination of briefing information and interface within the documentation process.

Special Expertise

Ian’s concern for the global environment has led to his accreditation with the Green Building Council. Ian’s knowledge provides a basis for Green initiatives to be fed into MSJ’s design process which leads to informed client awareness.

Ian Empson

Senior AssociateBArch (Hons) UNSW

Michelle possesses excellent people skills. She brings both her architectural design sense and health planning experience to the briefing and detailed planning stages of a project. Working with stakeholders and user groups Michelle provides confidence that requirements are being met, translated and conveyed into the overall architectural design.

Special Expertise

With seven years of experience at MSJ on health and large community centres, Michelle is an integral part of the design team that has successfully initiated the Codebook relational database briefing system into MSJ’s architectural practice.

Michelle’s ability to manage saw her appointment as an MSJ Associate in 2013.

Michelle Mo

AssociateBArch MArch (USyd)

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Currently under construction, the redevelopment of the existing hospital campus is located on the fringe of the New South Wales city of Tamworth. Due for completion in 2015, the project involves the refurbishment of existing buildings and the construction of a new hospital building, which will provide a hub for medical, surgical and other specialties in the region. It will also provide consultancy outreach and support for chronic and complex disease management across the whole community.

Set within a rural context the new four storey hospital involved MSJ in a strategic, urban planning solution within the spatially tight and complex site to produce a scheme that responds to the steeply falling site while allowing the campus to function during construction.

The tapestry of external wall panels responds to the diverse hospital functions required on each floor and the palette of colour refers to the rustic landscape of Tamworth, the diversity of its inhabitants and its indigenous community.

Tamworth Hospital, NSW

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“ Landscape, texture & colour are used to visually enhance the spaces between the buildings, to make memorable connections and focus on public address by creating a new sense of place.“

Anticipated Completion - 2015Client - NSW Health & InfrastructureValue - $220mMajor Services - Master Plan, Architecture and Interior Design

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Completion - Stage 1 2013, Stage 2 2015Client - Queensland HealthValue - $450mMajor Services - Master Plan, Feasibility, Architecture and Interior Design

Cairns Hospital, QLD

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The tropical seaside location for Cairns Hospital redevelopment provided a picturesque site for the successful MSJ joint venture with Jackson Architects, Brisbane and Fisher Buttrose Architects, Cairns. Linking Lake Street and The Esplanade via a landscaped breeze-way to the entrance, the Hospital includes 531 beds, 54 Ambulatory Care Beds and 13 Operating Theatres. Skewed and shaped in form to fit the site, maximise views and define entries, the building is carefully screened to reduce the impact of sun as well as cyclones. Inspired by the yellow white and crimson red of the frangipani, the exterior colours mark the entry, identify spaces and connect with the vibrancy of the interior design.

The new building work seamlessly integrates the renovation and expansion of four existing buildings to provide additional cardiac care facilities, day surgery unit, new specialist clinics and pathology services, an integrated mental health unit, a comprehensive cancer care unit as well as new radiation oncology services.

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As one of the largest public buildings and the most complex health project in New Zealand, the 80,000 square metre Auckland City Hospital is one of five other major hospital projects that MSJ has been involved in across the Tasman.

MSJ worked in collaboration with the local firm Jasmax, to successfully bring together the in-patient services of Auckland, Greenlane and the National Women’s Hospitals. With twenty-four new operating theatres, the nine storey building provides medical services associated with the highest levels of acuity and case complexity, including intensive care neurosurgery, and organ transplantation.

To accommodate 828 beds on a constricted site and also provide natural light to all patient rooms, a design concept was developed to wrap the hospital’s functions around a central atrium space positioned next to the public lift system. The atrium connects all nine levels of the building’s main circulation spine with intersecting bridges to create an impressive entrance lobby and a stimulating internal environment for patients and staff.

Completion - 2003Client: Auckland Health ServicesValue - $150mMajor Services - Master Plan, Feasibility, Architecture and Interior Design

Auckland City Hospital, NZ

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By creating visual “bookends” to frame the old with the new, MSJ’s design for Wollongong Hospital forms a new landmark on one of the most prominent sites in the Illawarra region. Located on a ridge, the building offers dramatic views to both the north and south towards Wollongong steelworks. On the limited available site the architecture modulates the perceived mass and scale of the building with a composition articulated by the slender edges of the cantilevered roof planes and vertically expressed walls.

The nine-storey addition to Wollongong Hospital abuts the refurbished existing building of similar height, to form the second stage of a comprehensive 400-bed redevelopment. As teaching hospital with a tertiary role for the region the campus includes a 200 seat lecture theatre, library and 25 bed mental health unit.

Considered by the Wollongong City Council to be a “lighthouse project”, because it took “an existing structure and pushed it in a new and forward thinking direction” the building received the City Councils 2003 Architectural Design Award for Public Buildings. The bold use of colour used to integrate the older building on the same street frontage was acknowledged by winning the Dulux Commercial Exterior in the same year.

Completed - 2003Client - Illawarra HealthValue - $80mMajor Services - Planning, Architecture and Interior Design

Wollongong Hospital, NSW

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Belconnen CommunityCentre, ACT

Completion - 2013Client - Thinc HealthValue - $51mMajor Services - Master Plan, Feasibility, Architecture and Interior DesignArchitects in association with May Russell, Canberra

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In 2009, a review by the ACT Government found an ageing population, changes in consumer demand and the impact of new technologies along side shortages of a skilled work force, was placing pressure on ACT health infrastructure. MSJ was commissioned to assist the Capital Asset Development Plan with briefing skills and master planning to ensure the availability, viability and safety of future health care facilities in the ACT region.

Additionally, MSJ was engaged for the design and documentation of Belconnen Community Centre (BCC) and construction was completed in 2013. The BCC represents the largest of the several centres developed. Strategically located opposite the town centre shopping mall, the BCC accommodates Multi Disciplinary Clinics, Dental Suites, Physiotherapy and Renal Dialysis Clinics and X-Ray Rooms.

While the separate entrance pavilion addresses Lathlain Street, the curved form of the main building responds to the sweep of Cohen Street. To reduce the apparent length and scale of the Cohen Street elevation, which curves from the north to the north-east, the sun control of the two overlapping façades, responds respectively to the changing aspect.

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MSJ’s design for the new School of Medicine, Clinical School & Research Centre presents a public face to the role of UWS at Blacktown Hospital. Briefed and designed in two stages, the timing of funds allowed the overall construction of the School and Research Centre to occur as one contract. To provide a campus identity for the students, expert medical teachers, researchers and staff, the diverse functions of the overall complex and the two planning stages of the design were arranged around a central courtyard.

The School’s lobby links the 161 seat lecture theatre, servery kitchen and student common room with tutorial rooms, administration offices and a library through a central stairwell. Views from the stairwell are framed by a geometric composition that responds to the physical movement between the three floors and provides a functional transparency that actively encourages interaction between students and staff.

Similarly the lounge areas and kitchen space within the glazed lobby of the Research Centre, are arranged to encourage collaborative interaction between the three floors, which accommodate clinical trials, administration, wet labs and dry labs. The public nature of the lobby space is protected from the western sun by a suspended, glazed screen.

Blacktown School of Medicine, Clinical School & Research Centre, NSW

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Completion - 2011Client - University of Western SydneyValue - $24mMajor Services - Architecture, Interior Design and Site Inspection

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Named after the widely recognised asbestosis and social justice campaigner, the Bernie Banton Centre is the world’s first stand alone research laboratory dedicated to asbestos related disease. Located on the Concord Repatriation General Hospital Campus with associated educational and administrative functions the new facility consists of 6 wet laboratories and 2 dry laboratories. The new wet laboratories are required to be at Physical Containment Level 2 (PC-2) with one at PC-3.

A landscaped setting provides the backdrop for a neutrally coloured grey and white panelled building, with highlights of lime green and terracotta screen walls to create a building of stepped form that responds to the scale of the existing surrounding buildings and street context as well as clearly defining the building’s functions and public address. Sun shading has been designed to both control direct sunlight in laboratory areas and to provide a civic presence on the east elevation. A large rainwater tank and irrigation system has been installed to service the surrounding landscape.

Completion - 2009Value - $12mMajor Services - Master Plan, Feasibility, Architecture and Interior Design

Bernie Banton Asbestos Diseases Research Foundation, NSW

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Located to the north east of Melbourne in Heidelberg, the Olivia Newton John Cancer and Wellness Centre, was designed in association with Jackson Architecture. Completed in 2012, the Centre offers a comprehensive, stand alone cancer service with strong connections to the existing Austin Hospital infrastructure.

Olivia Newton John’s dedication to the promotion of patient-centred, wellness programmes has been reflected in this visionary design, which focuses on the needs of the whole person and develops patient-centred aspects of care.

The new facility conveys a welcoming domestic environment and consolidates patient services to include a comprehensive Radiation Oncology service, outpatient clinics, chemotherapy treatment as well as acute and palliative care inpatient units. Located adjacent to support areas such as a dedicated pharmacy service, research laboratory space and cancer administration, the Centre provides a carefully integrated environment for world-class cancer treatment as well as translational research.

In August 2014, the project was awarded an Excellence in Construction of Commercial Building at the Master Builders Association of Victoria. In 2013, the project received an Acute Care Honourable Mention at the Healthcare Environment Awards, Centre for Health Design USA.

Completion - 2012Client - Austin HealthValue - $187mMajor Services - Master Plan, Feasibility, Architecture and Interior Design

Olivia Newton John Cancer & Wellness Centre, VIC

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Completion - 2012Client - Ingham Health Research InstituteValue - $35mMajor Services - Master Plan, Feasibility, Architecture and Interior Design

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Located on a corner with tight street frontages opposite Liverpool Hospital, in a dense urban setting, the Ingham Health Research Institute (IHRI) abuts the existing Health Services Building (HSB) in Campbell Street. Designed by MSJ to create well lit spaces and enhance an awareness of the external environment within the restricted context, a glazed lift core and open staircase rise through the spatially connected lobbies. Strategically positioned next to common areas and meeting rooms to enhance research collaboration, each lobby space provides a highly functional, interactive environment for staff emerging from the administration floor, a biological research unit and laboratories, which include two ‘dry’ PC-2 floors and one ‘wet’ PC-3 floor.The northern pitch of the roof orients photovoltaic panels to the sun while sun shading is tailored in design to address the north and east elevations. To minimise low summer sun glare from the east and the west along the southern elevation, a steel structure supports an elegantly folded aluminium screen and a glazed awning. This design component addresses both the existing HSB and the IHRI, to visually link the new and existing buildings and mark the new entry to the IHRI.

Ingham Health Research Institute, NSW

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Cover Image - Blacktown School of Medicine, Clinical School & Research Centre, NSW