[Images: time lapse footage of people moving around the floor and looking at projections at Big Plans facility]
[Text on screen: A/Prof. David Fuller Clinical Director – Women’s, Children’s and Families, Barwon Health]
[Images: A/Prof. Fuller talks to camera in front of the Big Plans projections; staff members discussing on floor of Big Plans ]
A/Prof. Fuller: The process of actually thinking about what's needed to put in a building here has also been a very helpful process for us. This is not just a building for Geelong, it's actually a building for the whole of the Barwon and Southwest regions. We're going to have upwards of over half a million people within our catchment.
[Text on screen: Rachel O’Keefe Co-Director Women’s, Children’s and Families, Barwon Health]
[Images: Rachel O’Keefe talks in front of people looking at floor projections]
Rachel O’Keefe: Probably one of the biggest growth corridors in the whole of the state.
[Images: A/Prof Fuller talks to camera; the team uses props to work out the flow of work within each virtual room]
A/Prof. Fuller: We are providing women's and children's services for our local catchment, but then supporting other health services further west as well. A large catchment that goes all the way to the Victorian border.
[Images: aerial widescale view of the Geelong/Barwon region]
Rachel O’Keefe: In response to that, the government's realized that we need to invest in our birthing services. We're gonna have a lot more young children in the area.
[Images: The team uses props to work out the flow of work within each virtual room]
A/Prof. Fuller: It's been useful both thinking about a building, but that's actually really helped us think about what areas do we need to grow. There's much more of a move to providing care, closer to home.
Rachel O’Keefe: Thinking about the future, and improve the way that we do things.
[Text on screen: Kenny Choon Commercial and technical Lead, Barwon Women’s and Children’s Project, VHBA]
Kenny Choon: We've brought the design, put it on the floor underneath their feet, one-to-one scale.
[Text on screen: Kate Fatovich Project Director, Barwon Women’s and Children’s Project VHBA]
[Images: Kate Fatovich talks in a VHBA office]
Kate Fatovich: This is how we're gonna use it. This is how we're gonna function in it, and does it actually work the way we think it's gonna work?
Kenny Choon: To make sure that whatever feedback they've provided us with, they are a hundred percent happy with what we're gonna build.
[Images: Team members utilise prop beds, walls and benches within the virtual room spaces]
Rachel O’Keefe: We've been walking around the rooms in their real scale and we've been looking at some of the design ideas that we've had all along and seeing if they actually work in translation.
Kate Fatovich: Being able to see that and walk it in that environment. It allows you to get that right balance between functionality and actually having a really good, healthy environment for patients.
A/Prof. Fuller: Across from me, there are some barriers that have, we've put up at various stages to create the actual sense of the room. There's some beds, there's some hoists, there's chairs.
[Images: Team members view a floor schematic projected on to a wall]
Kate Fatovich: We all have a collective goal to make sure that this is functional. It works for the staff, it works for the patients, it works for the families.
A/Prof. Fuller: So this is really in the detailed design phase where we're working out lots of the nitty gritty and specifics moving towards final sign off of that.
Kate Fatovich: Sometimes you don't understand the implications of saying, ‘I want this’ and what that means, and functionality.
[Images: Team members inside a virtual inpatient room moving beds and wheelchairs around]
A/Prof. Fuller: We're able to think about how many nurses are gonna be in this room at a given time at certain times of day.
Rachel O’Keefe: Some of the rooms are smaller than we thought, and some of the rooms are bigger.
A/Prof. Fuller: And we realized could actually move a wall just slightly and create a little bit more bench space.
[Images: Rachel O’Keefe talks in front of people looking at floor projections]
Rachel O’Keefe: It's a few things I think from here that we need to take away and take back to our teams and rethink, and then I think we'll get back together with the architects and we give them that feedback. We're trying to consult as much as we can with the people who are actually using the hospital.
[Images: time lapse footage of people moving around the floor and looking at projections at Big Plans facility]
Kenny Choon: It feels very gratifying to know that you've contributed to such a big landmark project.
[Images: A partnership screen with a white background displays the text ‘In partnership with’ Barwon 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]
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