Australia: Work starts on New University of New South Wales Cancer Research Facility in Sydney

Bovis Lend Lease is undertaking the design and construction of a state-of-the-art cancer research facility, which will host up to 400 cancer researchers from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Faculty of Medicine and the Children’s Cancer Institute Australia (CCIA).

Bovis Lend Lease recently commenced work on The Lowy Cancer Research Centre at the UNSW, to be located on the university’s Kensington Campus in Sydney. Scheduled for completion in September 2009, the project is the first stage of a major redevelopment of the university’s medical facilities.
The A$100 million, eight-storey research facility represents an Australian first, bringing together childhood and adult cancer research in one site.

Bovis Lend Lease will structure the project to ensure the university remains fully operational throughout the construction process, ensuring that the 33,000 students that pass through the campus can continue their studies as normal.

This latest project follows Bovis Lend Lease’s completion of the North Mall Development Zone project at the university, during which the UNSW site team raised over A$31,000 for the Sydney Children’s Hospital.

As part of the North Mall project, Bovis Lend Lease completed a new facility for the School of Chemistry, a number of refurbishments to floors of the Applied Science Building to incorporate a new Analytical Centre, a new four level building for the Faculty of Law, a refurbishment of the Dalton Building, as well as a significant refurbishment of the existing Heffron Building to create a new facility for UNSW’s Australian School of Business. The project also involved extensive site infrastructure and landscape improvements.

Bovis Lend Lease has a strong presence in the Australian health sector. The company is part of the Children’s Health Partnership consortium redeveloping the new A$1billion Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne, is managing contractor for the A$296 million expansion and refurbishment of Liverpool Hospital in Sydney and has been appointed to provide building consultancy services for the Gold Coast University Hospital in Queensland.