The Personalised Medicine Centre at the Kids Cancer Centre, Sydney Children’s Hospital Randwick will provide dedicated space for haematology and oncology facilities to better meet the needs of child patients with cancer and blood disorders. The allocated space is located within an already busy hospital campus and houses robotics, libraries of known and clinically-approved drugs,…
Civil engineering is one of the foundation engineering disciplines at Woolacotts and is based on more than 80 years of experience. Our Civil team undertakes a variety of Community Infrastructure projects, including public domain upgrades, roadworks, cycleways, parks etc plus civil engineering associated with building projects, including flood assessments, stormwater drainage, bulk earthworks, roads, car…
It was a race around the clock to get the project ready for the new school year but we did it. Woolacotts provided civil and structural and engineering design services for a new popup school in Glebe, on the fringe of Sydney’s CBD. The most challenging element of this project was the density…
Project update. The new Surry Hills Children’s Court held its first hearing today, 15 January 2018. Surry Hills Children’s Court is a 4-court complex, with state of the art Audio-Visual Link (AVL) facilities, 2 conciliation rooms, witness protection rooms as well as space for support services and agencies that support the Children’s Court. Seven news…
Woolacotts has been appointed as Structural Engineers for the exciting next stage of the award-winning Northern Beaches Christian School redevelopment. The next stage involves the replacement of the existing Science and Technology Building with a new three storey Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) building as a natural extension to the award-winning Project Barcelona. Our…
NSW Government has been injecting significant funds into capital work projects for the education sector. The Rainbow Street Public School is one of the larger upgrade projects and received a boost when planning consent was approved by Randwick City Council in April 2017. The school population is planned to double in size to 1000 students.…
Woolacotts is providing structural and civil engineering to specialist justice and emergency architects Permual Pedavoli. One of the key challenges is the preservation of the heritage elements and the façade facing Albion Street. Being a tight inner city site, also meant significant underpinning of an adjacent church. The $38 million specialist Children’s Court is a…
Construction has just completed on a new coastal walking track engineered by Woolacotts. Malabar Headland, in the heart of the Sydney metropolitan area, has a long history of contested control and administration meaning the area was off-limits to the general public. On 19 January 2016, a key portion of land was transferred to the people…
The new 1700 bed Grafton Correctional Centre is being delivered as a PPP (Public – Private – Partnership) by The Northern Pathways consortium on behalf of the NSW Government. Woolacotts is supporting John Holland as the structural and civil engineering design partner for the new facility. Woolacotts has one of the most comprehensive and successful histories of…
Woolacotts is again supporting economic growth in regional Australia, this time it’s the structural, civil and hydraulic design for a new 105 bed vertical village aged care facility in Port Macquarie NSW. “We love projects in regional parts of Australia”, said Kevin Christessen, Principal Engineers of Woolacotts. “I recall the work we did for Port Base Hospital…