The UNSW Faculty of Medicine had been operating at Wagga Wagga Base Hospital since 2000. At this time, the UNSW Rural Clinical School (RCS) only catered for full-time students in Years 3 – 6 of their medical degree in Medicine. By constructing this new Biomedical Sciences Building we can now provide additional teaching spaces and enable the enrolment of 25 full-time students for each year of the six-year degree program.

Lipman was tasked to provide an open and welcoming building to encourage student and staff interaction. The building includes: Wet Science and specialist Dry Anatomy, Pathology, Clinical Skills and virtual reality-based Simulation Laboratory spaces to support the delivery of the medical degree course.

Our strategy for operating in a critical live environment involved establishing high-quality communication channels with the relevant personnel within the client’s team. These communication channels allowed a collaborative approach to reach an agreed solution for the disruptive works and subsequently forming the basis of disruption notices. Throughout the construction process, we were able to deliver the building works without interruption to the Hospital’s operations.

The four-story centre features flexible tutorial rooms and function spaces, a lecture theatre, dry labs, research facilities, tutorial rooms, scenario rooms, academic staff offices, and on-site parking.

This new centre will ensure more medical students are trained in rural and regional Australia and was funded in part by the Federal Government’s Murray-Darling Medical Schools Network.

We are proud of our part in delivering this state-of-the-art, purpose-built facility providing opportunities for specialised postgraduate training.