Community Engagement & Wellness Centre (CEW)The new facility is a Community Engagement and Wellness Centre. It will be an on-campus clinic that provides the students studying the various School of Community Health courses an opportunity to apply their newly developed coursework skills in an authentic clinical work environment dealing with real people with real issues.

An aim of the new centre is to move away from reactive medical treatment by encouraging “wellness” through prevention and intervention based services. Consequently the centre will have an innovative role in health care. Students will learn inter-professional competencies for collaborative team-based practice where clients can come to the centre to have their health issues identified and treated by a variety of health service professionals under the one roof. The services on offer include podiatry, physiotherapy, psychology, speech pathology and occupational therapy, amongst others.

The concept shows a building “facing” Ellis Street providing good community exposure. A vehicle ramp leads up from Ellis Street to an undercover “drop off” zone at the main building entry. The plan for the building is an efficient arrangement of spaces that have a logic and order that define and rationalise the building form and function. The building has three distinct parts to it:

• Northern administration and staff services zone containing reception, offices, records, utilities and staff amenities.

• Southern “clinical” wing containing 10 x Treatment Rooms, 4 x Consultation Rooms and a Surgical Procedure room with associated stores, staff offices and utilities.

• Central “community” zone containing the waiting area, visitor amenities, and the community focussed multi-purpose and gymnasium spaces with some associated interview rooms and equipment stores.

The “community” zone forms a central “spine” to the building. This spine is reflected in the building form with a projecting roof expressed as a “wave” which projects either end of the building to create a covered terrace to the west and porte-cochere over the main entry to the east. This sculptural feature of the building, enables the flanking north and south wings to be treated as a backdrop Where the “wave” roof physically connects to the building there are clerestory windows around the perimeter giving the impression of a roof hovering above the building. Consequently, there is an open and transparent feel to the communal zone which should make clients feel welcome, comfortable and expressing a sense of community engagement.

At either end of the building there are two projecting pods, being the procedure and pre-op rooms at the south and staff lounge at the north, which are again treated as sculptural elements. These are designed to reflect the forms of and make reference to the nearby dentistry building. The general building colours are designed to harmonise with the adjacent Peter Till Building.

The project includes the use of rainwater storage tanks to harvest rainwater which is then used within the building and for irrigation of the Landscaped surrounds. A solar/gas hot water system provides hot water to the building.

The building includes an extensive Audio Visual system that allows staff and students to record and/or remotely observe sessions in various rooms including the Procedure room, a Consultation room and a Treatment room. These rooms are fitted with a ceiling mounted camera that can be controlled from the Clinical Educators & Student Write Up room. A second camera is mounted on the Examination Light positioned near the patient for close up video capture and a ceiling mounted microphone provides audio capture in these rooms. An interview room is also provided with a remote Audio Visual monitoring and recording system.

Architect: NBRS+PARTNERS Structural Engineer: Wright Barrat

Electrical, Mechanical and Hydraulic Engineer: ADADRA Building Services Group Landscape Architects: Somewhere Landscape Architects

Builder: Hansen Yuncken Pty Ltd Gross Floor Area: 981m2 Total Cost: $4.998m Year of Completion: 2012

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