This project involved the design and construction of a new $10M, 40 bed facility to replace and expand the ageing Junee Hospital and provide an Integrated Health & Aged Care Facility encompassing hospital, community health services and aged care facilities together under one roof. The design is a significant departure from traditional brick health projects and incorporates large expanses of glass with a combination of designer block, FC cladding and metal wall cladding. This eye-catching building has been warmly received by the Junee community.
This project was successful in winning the 2008 MBA NSW Excellence in Construction Award for Health Buildings $5M – $10M.
The Construction of the 550 m2 Yambil Dental Care Surgery consisted of a concrete tilt panel design with structural steel portal frames, a modern fit out with detailed circular reception counter and new car parking facilities.
The site was long and narrow with the building covering the full width of the block. This required fire walls on both boundaries. The busy street front had limited access with an existing Business operating on the eastern boundary. Joss coordinated all of the Client supplied items, including the dental equipment and medical gases.
Construction of the new St. Vincent’s Private Community Hospital, situated adjacent the existing Griffith base hospital, involved 20 overnight beds, 20-day beds, 2 Operating theatres, 1 Procedure room, Central Sterile Supply Department, Kitchen & catering facilities, Clinical teaching and learning facilities and Skills and Simulation Lab.
The works required the implementation of advanced coordination techniques to deliver the complicated services intensive facility where challenges arising from latent conditions required flexibility in the sequencing of works to ensure that the projects key objectives of cost, quality and time were achieved.
Construction involved alterations and additions to the existing Day Procedures, a new Emergency Department and the adaption of the first floor nursing home to become a new Dental and Out Patience Clinic, including the construction of a link bridge and personnel lift between the Dental and Out Patients Building and the Community Care Centre.
The project required multiple handovers, services connections and planned service interruptions. Open and ongoing communications throughout the project ensured these were undertaken in a timely, organised manner.
Positioned between the Hospital’s Main and Emergency Department Entrances the project was built as an addition to the existing Radiology Department. The construction of new works encroached upon an area that was previously used as a drop off zone, hence efficient traffic and pedestrian management was paramount in the successful completion of the project.
The project scope included the construction of the new facility consisting of face brick veneer, composite structural steel and timber frame and 200mm thick precast walls; modifying the existing southern car park to enable a minimum of 58 car spaces to be provided for the Hospital’s use at all times during the works and finally an additional car park count of 78 spaces.
The Gateway Super Clinic project involved the construction of a two storey general practitioners clinic located in Wodonga’s CBD. The precast panel superstructure with structural steel portal frame accommodates 2800m2 over the two levels and is equipped with 15 consulting rooms, pharmacy, pathology, radiology and yoga facility.
The Gateway Super Clinic incorporates many architecturally innovative components including a glass ceiling to the pharmacy area and a glazed canopy above the High Street entry.
With the front façade jutting out onto High Street, Wodonga’s main street, the use of hoarding and diversion of foot traffic was required for the duration of the project.
This $250M Defence project was performed in Joint Venture with John Holland Group and comprised upgrades and new facilities to two bases, DNSDC in Moorebank New South Wales and JLUV in Bandiana Victoria. The JLUV (Joss Construction) portion of the Joint Venture included a 20,000 m2 warehouse, 7,500 m2 of covered hardstand, storage and repair facilities, vehicle wash, loading ramp, secure vehicle storage, guardhouse, gatehouse, new fire pump house and tanks, IT & Communication building, refurbishment of an existing building, hardstand and roads, new staff carparking, new infrastructure into and around the Base, external works and landscaping. The facilities provide the Department of Defence with a low maintenance, durable, flexible facility that can easily adopt to the ever-changing world of logistics and national defence.