Hospitals 23 November 2024

Designs unveiled for your new Melton Hospital

Designs for the new Melton Hospital have been unveiled as critical site preparation works get underway on the site.

The designs reveal key spaces in the new hospital including the main entrance, façade, main foyer, a patient room and waiting areas.

The hospital has been designed as a place for all, that promotes healing, learning and living. The design draws inspiration from the local landscape and ecosystems, to provide patients, staff and visitors with strong connections to nature and Country. Like the local natural ecosystems, the design aims to be interconnected, life-sustaining and healing at all scales.

More than 1,000 ideas and priorities from locals helped shape the designs – with the new hospital to include green spaces, artwork, intuitive and simple wayfinding, natural light, access to outdoors and the incorporation of local Indigenous culture and storytelling.

Take a look at the design in this video.

Introducing your new Melton Hospital

Accessible transcript

[Text on screen: Introducing your new Melton Hospital]

[Images: Artist impression of aerial view of new hospital, with Coach Street and Bridge Road detailed]

[Text on screen: Inspired by local landscapes and ecosystems]

[Images: Artist impression of aerial view of new hospital, seen from Bridge Road perspective]

[Text on screen: Victoria’s first all-electric hospital]

[Images: Artist impression of aerial view of new hospital from above, detailing multiple banks of solar panels along each rooftop]

[Images: Artist impression of Coach Street main entrance and drop off area, with callout ‘Welcoming main entrance’]

[Text on screen: Modern and calming spaces]

[Images: Artist impression of large atrium inside the hospital entrance, including Information desk]

[Text on screen: A holistic approach to sustainability]

[Images: Another view of the atrium, taking in three floors]

[Text on screen: Strong connections to nature and Country; intuitive wayfinding]

[Images: People walking along a walkway, with garden and native plants on either side]

[Text on screen: Modern spaces for staff; connections to the outdoors]

[Images: Slow pan around a staff lounge, then outside to an open garden with seating]

[Text on screen: Light-filled rooms for patients]

[Images: view of corridor and into a light filled treatment room with view outside]

[Text on screen: A place for all that encompasses healing, learning and living]

[Images: Aerial view of hospital precinct at dusk]

[Images: Slide with ‘In partnership with Western Health (logo) and Exemplar Health (logo)’]

[Images: A sliding transition screen then displays the Victorian Health Building Authority and Victoria State Government logos and the url vhba.vic.gov.au]

End of transcript.

Sustainable design

Fully-electric enabling carbon neutral power use from day one

Targeting a 5-star Green Star certification by optimising energy and water use

Electric vehicle charging stations for fleet vehicles

Contract awarded and works underway

The Exemplar Health consortium has officially been awarded the contract to deliver the new Melton Hospital. Exemplar Health includes:

Capella Capital as sponsor and investor
Lendlease Infrastructure Investments and Invesis as sponsors
Lendlease as builder
Honeywell and Compass Group as facilities and maintenance managers.

Critical site preparation works are now underway, including important cultural heritage and environmental work. An on-site base will also be established gradually for workers. These preparation works are essential in ensuring the site is ready for major construction.

Construction is on track for completion in 2029.

About your new Melton Hospital

The new Melton Hospital will be a public hospital operated by Western Health. The hospital will be built at 245A Ferris Road, Cobblebank and will deliver: