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Epworth Eastern is seeking to add another tower to Box Hill's burgeoning skyline.

Whilst previous additions to Epworth's Box Hill location spanning back to 2003 have been sprawling low-rise builds, the health provider is in the midst of seeking approval for a 62m Silver Thomas Hanley-designed tower that would underpin its future operations onsite and cater for the immediate area's booming population.

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The expansion of the Hospital is required in order to meet the current and projected short term demand for health services, with the demand for these types of facilities only becoming more vital with a growing and ageing population.

The facilities and services that Epworth offer on the site are currently operating at maximum capacity. The proposed redevelopment of the Epworth Eastern site will deliver a hospital led development, with additional hospital beds, new operating theatres and recovery, and consulting suites.
<cite>Urbis: 25 Nelson Street Planning Report</cite>
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2 operating theatres, 60 overnight acute patient beds, 15 rehab beds and 20 consulting suites constitute the net gain from the proposed development. In order to facilitate works on the tower, existing flats at 25 Nelson Street would be demolished.

At the south-east corner of Epworth Eastern's Box Hill land holding, the new build would also include 3 basement levels for additional car parking facilities, with levels both below and above ground linked to other existing buildings on site.

<figure><a class="colorbox colorbox-insert-image" href="https://res.cloudinary.com/dz9xllyip/image/fetch/q_auto:good/https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/www.urban.com.au/s3fs-public/pictures/article-images/image57_7.jpg" rel="gallery-all" title="25 Nelson Street within the existing Epworth Eastern context. Image: STH"><img alt="" class="image-article-full-width-580px" height="328" src="/sites/urban.melbourne/files/styles/article_full_width_580px/public/pictures/article-images/image57_7.jpg?itok=F37aQUUW" title="25 Nelson Street within the existing Epworth Eastern context. Image: STH" width="580"></a>

<figcaption>25 Nelson Street within the existing Epworth Eastern context. Image: STH</figcaption></figure>The unveiling of Epworth Eastern's sizeable pursuit is key to supporting Box Hill's march toward becoming a tangible second CBD. Late last year former Planning Manager at the City of Whitehorse, now Meinhardt as Associate Director – Planning Paul McAleer wrote on <a href="https://www.urban.com.au/news/box-hill-to-become-melbournes-second-cbd">Box Hill's rise to prominence within the greater Melbourne context</a>.

As the population of Box Hill and surrounding suburbs mushrooms, the need for development to cater for an increasingly aged population has not gone unserved. Developments such as <a href="https://www.urban.com.au/buildings/taohome-19-21-poplar-street-box-hill">Tao Home</a> which caters specifically for seniors and Bluecross' <a href="https://www.urban.com.au/buildings/bluecross-springfield-40-dorking-road-box-hill">40 Dorking Road </a>which includes 221 aged care beds are currently under construction.

Epworth Eastern's pending expansion joins Epworth Richmond and <a href="https://www.urban.com.au/news/freemasons-to-be-redeveloped-as-epworth-continues-to-develop">Freemasons East Melbourne</a> as ongoing developments falling under the Epworth banner. Most immediate is the Freemasons site within East Melbourne, where a new 10 storey Grey Street building is taking expressions of interests from medical specialists, with a view toward being completed by late 2018.

<figure><a class="colorbox colorbox-insert-image" href="https://res.cloudinary.com/dz9xllyip/image/fetch/q_auto:good/https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/www.urban.com.au/s3fs-public/pictures/article-images/image58_5.jpg" rel="gallery-all" title="Freemasons Clarendon Campus is next in line for development. Image: Epworth"><img alt="" class="image-article-full-width-580px" height="362" src="/sites/urban.melbourne/files/styles/article_full_width_580px/public/pictures/article-images/image58_5.jpg?itok=vhT8DccM" title="Freemasons Clarendon Campus is next in line for development. Image: Epworth" width="580"></a>

<figcaption>Freemasons Clarendon Campus is next in line for development. Image: Epworth</figcaption></figure>
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Epworth Eastern rises to match Box Hill's booming population's needs

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Epworth HealthCare is about to embark upon a large-scale redevelopment of the Freemasons Hospital, providing a new state of the art Cancer Centre in the process.

The not-for-profit hospital has lodged plans with Melbourne City Council that would see the new centre provide a single point of care facility for patients within the East Melbourne Health and Knowledge Precinct. Epworth Freemasons emerges as the finishing touches are applied to major redevelopments of two additional Epworth facilities in both Richmond and Geelong.

Two new buildings are key to the Freemasons project, with one fronting Grey Street and the other Albert Street. Health architecture firm Silver Thomas Hanley is joined by John Wardle Architects for the design of the revamped Freemasons..

<figure><a class="colorbox colorbox-insert-image" href="https://res.cloudinary.com/dz9xllyip/image/fetch/q_auto:good/https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/www.urban.com.au/s3fs-public/pictures/article-images/image84_3.jpg" rel="gallery-all" title="The new Grey Street building. Imahe courtesy Epworth"><img alt="" class="image-article-full-width-580px" height="360" src="/sites/urban.melbourne/files/styles/article_full_width_580px/public/pictures/article-images/image84_3.jpg?itok=3u3pc1Rg" title="The new Grey Street building. Imahe courtesy Epworth" width="580"></a>

<figcaption>The new Grey Street building. Imahe courtesy Epworth</figcaption></figure>Demolition of the existing nurses quarters to Grey Street and the administration ‘flat’ building to Albert Street is expected, with a number of other services relocated to allow for the redevelopment.

Grey Street will host a ten storey facility dubbed the Grey Street Centre which will accommodate spaces for education/training, day procedure and theatre rooms, with the bulk of space absorbed by medical consulting suites. Lower levels of the building will be integrated with the existing Freemasons facility.

Albert Street on the other hand will present as a single level building, yet hold six levels of basement car parking for 309 vehicles below what will become an integrated patient drop off and primary hospital entrance point.

With an estimated cost of development valued at $53 million, Epworth Freemasons follows in the steps of two substantially larger developments underpinned by the healthcare provider.

<figure><a class="colorbox colorbox-insert-image" href="https://res.cloudinary.com/dz9xllyip/image/fetch/q_auto:good/https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/www.urban.com.au/s3fs-public/pictures/article-images/img_1112.jpg" rel="gallery-all" title="Epworth Richmond's Lee Wing is externally complete"><img alt="" class="image-article-full-width-580px" height="387" src="/sites/urban.melbourne/files/styles/article_full_width_580px/public/pictures/article-images/img_1112.jpg?itok=gOkz7uzY" title="Epworth Richmond's Lee Wing is externally complete" width="580"></a>

<figcaption>Epworth Richmond's Lee Wing is externally complete</figcaption></figure>Kane Constructions have freshly completed the first phase of Epworth Richmond's Erin Street development. Known as Lee Wing, the building is the first to front Erin Street in a project that when completed beyond 2020 will add an additional 96,000 sqm of Gross Building Area to the existing complex.

Whilst the Silver Thomas Hanley-designed scheme for the entire Epworth Richmond holds an estimated construction cost of $700 million, Lee Wing is valued at in excess of $120 million.

Lee Wing building features include a new Emergency Department, an Intensive Care Unit, new operating theatres, inpatient accommodation and new consulting suites above a five level basement car park with over 250 spaces.

<figure><a class="colorbox colorbox-insert-image" href="https://res.cloudinary.com/dz9xllyip/image/fetch/q_auto:good/https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/www.urban.com.au/s3fs-public/pictures/article-images/2_3.jpg" rel="gallery-all" title="Epworth Geelong. Image courtesy Silver Thomas Hanley"><img alt="" class="image-article-full-width-580px" height="356" src="/sites/urban.melbourne/files/styles/article_full_width_580px/public/pictures/article-images/2_3.jpg?itok=KydN9F6x" title="Epworth Geelong. Image courtesy Silver Thomas Hanley" width="580"></a>

<figcaption>Epworth Geelong. Image courtesy Silver Thomas Hanley</figcaption></figure>Brookfiled Multiplex are also approaching the finishing line for Epworth Geelong. Located in Waurn Ponds the $447 million hospital will be developed over four stages with stage one set to be unveiled mid year.

In conjunction with nearby Deakin University the hospital will act as an extension to the education precinct,  whilst also catering toward a host of medical applications. Clinical training for undergraduate/postgraduate medical, nursing and allied health students will be made available within the new hospital.

Epworth Geelong was listed as Victoria’s second largest building project in 2014 in terms of value of permits issued.
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Freemasons to be redeveloped as Epworth continues to develop

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A valuable piece of Victorian infrastructure officially began work on Tuesday this week, with the first sod of soil turned to signify construction of the new Monash Children's Hospital. Located at Monash Medical Centre Clayton (MMCC), the new 230-bed, purpose-built Monash Children’s Hospital marked construction with Victorian Premier, Dr Denis Napthine joining festivities.

Conceived as a response to the growing need to service Melbourne and Victoria's increasing population, the facility will be one of two statewide tertiary paediatric facilities, and the only venue in the state which provides foetal surgery, thalassemia and paediatric cardiac electro-physiology.

Head contractor Lend Lease Building (Baulderstone) expect the concrete structure to rise skyward by October with dual tower cranes erected either side of the Christmas break. The concrete structure is expected to be finished by August 2015 with full completion roughly a year later, owing to the lengthy fitouts when constructing hospitals.

<h2>Project details</h2>

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<li>Clients: Monash Health &amp; Victorian Department of Health</li>
	<li>Architect: Silver Thomas Hanley</li>
	<li>Builder: Lend Lease Building (Baulderstone)</li>
	<li>30,000sqm paediatric hospital: Australia’s third largest children’s hospital</li>
	<li>230-bed facility</li>
	<li>completion late 2016</li>
	<li>Cost estimate: $250 million</li>
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<h2>Construction facts</h2>

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<li>14,000 cubic metres of concrete will be used in construction</li>
	<li>1500 tonnes of reinforcement</li>
	<li>35000m2 of plasterboard will be used</li>
	<li>1000 doors will be installed</li>
	<li>35000m2 of floor finishes including vinyl and carpet</li>
	<li>35000 cubic metres of dirt will be removed</li>
	<li>2-year construction program</li>
	<li>Two tower cranes on site</li>
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<figure><a class="colorbox colorbox-insert-image" href="https://res.cloudinary.com/dz9xllyip/image/fetch/q_auto:good/https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/www.urban.com.au/s3fs-public/pictures/article-images/10557445_698604163544184_6428558200327830895_n_1.jpg" rel="gallery-all" title="Hospital internal render. Image © monashhealth.org"><img alt="" class="image-article-full-width-580px" height="442" src="/sites/urbanmelbourne.info/files/styles/article_full_width_580px/public/pictures/article-images/10557445_698604163544184_6428558200327830895_n_1.jpg?itok=ktQXv_sW" title="Hospital internal render. Image © monashhealth.org" width="580"></a>

<figcaption>Hospital internal render. Image © monashhealth.org</figcaption></figure><h2>Children's joins the TRF</h2>

Monash Children's isn't the only project worthy of note currently under construction at MMCC. With a tower crane visible from far and wide, Lend Lease Building (Baulderstone) have advanced the Translational Research Facility (seen below) to the first floor structure.

Designed as an incubator for knowledge and research, the facility "Will bring together basic and clinical researchers grouped by theme; integrated transitional research laboratories; a dedicated clinical trial centre; a general research centre and common use research platforms." The end result is a research centre designed to enable world-class clinical research, "Translated into best-practise, patient-centred healthcare" according to Monash Health.

<figure><a class="colorbox colorbox-insert-image" href="https://res.cloudinary.com/dz9xllyip/image/fetch/q_auto:good/https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/www.urban.com.au/s3fs-public/pictures/article-images/mhtp-trf_north.jpg" rel="gallery-all" title="Monash Health Translation Precinct – Translational Research Facility. Image © monashhealth.org"><img alt="" class="image-article-full-width-580px" height="341" src="/sites/urbanmelbourne.info/files/styles/article_full_width_580px/public/pictures/article-images/mhtp-trf_north.jpg?itok=Csp4ix5Y" title="Monash Health Translation Precinct – Translational Research Facility. Image © monashhealth.org" width="580"></a>

<figcaption>Monash Health Translation Precinct – Translational Research Facility. Image © monashhealth.org</figcaption></figure>Valued at $84 million, the Woods Bagot-designed facility secured $71 million via Federal Government funding with the remaining $13m being provided by the project partners. The Translational Research Facility is due for completion late 2015.
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