The 15-storey East Tower, including a paediatric unit, is now underway.
The first slab of concrete has been poured for the section of the $940 million redevelopment of the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney that will house the paediatric unit, ante and postnatal maternity units, delivery and expanded neonatal intensive care services, and expanded and enhanced intensive care services.
The new East Tower is designed to be more family friendly and better for staff workflow, and its rooms will be more private and comfortable and have panoramic views of the city skyline, says the NSW government.
The East Tower will include:
- expanded in-patient ward accommodation;
- 14 additional beds, including a 4-bed adolescent unit and 4 short-stay beds;
- a dedicated patient recreation room and playroom;
- a family zone with ensuite;
- co-located parenting rooms;
- a co-located paediatric short-stay unit and adolescent unit;
- an enclosed courtyard designed to provide natural ventilation and outdoor access;
- staff meeting and consultation rooms;
- a milk preparation room;
- two clinical work rooms; and
- increased workspace to support day-to-day operations and multidisciplinary collaboration.
The two cranes used in building the East Tower were named “Burbangana”, an Indigenous word meaning “to take hold of my hand and help me up”, and “Nightingale”, to honour nurses, by local school children.
The redevelopment of the Camperdown site, just a couple of kilometres from the Sydney city centre, is the largest to be undertaken in the RPA’s 140-year history and began in October 2023.
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Additions and alterations to the historic site will expand the emergency department and intensive care unit and will include new operating theatres, expanded and improved adult in-patient ward accommodation, more interventional and imaging services, better improved roads, signage and landscaping throughout the hospital, a new northern entrance off Johns Hopkins Drive and a new, open, cultural garden courtyard.
Works on the new northern entrance, seating, a patient drop-off and improved pedestrian access are already underway.
Fortnightly construction updates for the redevelopment are available here.
The project is expected to be completed in 2028/2029.