Prince of Wales Hospital $720 million upgrade: Final plans approved

The $720 million upgrade of Randwick’s Prince of Wales Hospital is set to be bigger than originally planned following the approval of yet another DA.

An artist impression of the Prince of Wales Hospital Acute Services Building, looking from the western side of the site.

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Final touches have been approved for the $720 million upgrade of Prince of Wales Hospital in Randwick with construction now underway on the much-needed Acute Services Building.

The Acute Services Building is the main feature of the hospital’s redevelopment and will be 13-storeys tall when completed in 2022.

It will feature a new emergency department, intensive care unit, inpatient units, operating theatres, helipad and other state-of-the-art facilities.

An extension to the eastern side of the Acute Services Building (pictured to the right) was approved last month.

Last month, a development application was approved by the Department of Planning, Industry and Environment to increase the size of the building by roughly 10 per cent, at an estimated cost of $66.7 million.

The approved 10-storey extension on the eastern side of the building will primarily be used by UNSW students and staff for medical research and education.

“The purpose (of the extension) is to enable clinical innovation and research, biomedical engineering, and research laboratories to be collocated directly alongside clinical staff,” the development proposal read.

An artist’s impression of the tiered extension to the building (to the right), which will stand 10-storeys tall.

The extension will also feature a bridge linking the new building with existing buildings at Prince of Wales Hospital.

Ground work for the new building began about 12 months ago between Botany St and Hospital Rd and construction is now underway.

In 2015, the state government announced $500 million for the redevelopment of the hospital and a further $220 million was committed in 2017.

The site of the new development.

It marks the first major redevelopment of the hospital in 25 years.

The Acute Services Building will be erected on a cleared site directly west of the existing Prince of Wales Hospital.