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Filed Under: INVEST, LIVE, PROJECTS Tagged With: Economic Development Queensland, frontline workers, Gold Coast, homes for Queenslanders, Housing, Live, Lumina, students, work and study

New homes for health workers

Artist impression of the proposed housing development at the Gold Coast Health and Knowledge Precinct

Plans have been lodged to build hundreds of new build-to-rent homes in the Gold Coast’s Health and Knowledge Precinct.

UBS Real Estate Nominees Australia Pty Limited (UBS) has lodged a development application with Economic Development Queensland on the last residential zoned site at the precinct aimed specifically at frontline health workers and students.

The proposal will see the delivery of 878 homes, including 176 affordable units, comprising of studio, one, two, and three-bedroom apartments across four buildings. It will cater for an estimated 1350 new residents right next to the university hospital and Griffith University campus.

The development application also includes plans for a landscaped plaza as well as resident facilities including retail outlets, cafes, and a gym all close to existing public transport networks.

The deliberate mix of dwelling types is expected to further diversify and broaden the range of housing and rental price points that currently exist within the Gold Coast Health and Knowledge Precinct and the wider Southport location.

Following the submission of the development application and the finalisation of commercial negotiations, it’s expected construction could begin next year.

Read on
  • Media release: Homes for Queenslanders: Plans lodged for 878 key worker homes on Gold Coast
  • Find out more on the Lumina Gold Coast website
Artist impression of the proposed housing development at the Gold Coast Health and Knowledge Precinct

September 3, 2024 By Gemma Bull

Filed Under: BUSINESS, HEALTH, INVEST, LIVE, PROJECTS

Work commences on premium GCHKP development RDX

(L-R) Debbie McNamara, General Manager EDQ, Craig Mitchell President Northwest Healthcare Properties REIT, Hon Stirling Hinchcliffe, Queensland Minister for Tourism, Innovation and Sport, Dr Hal Rice, Tim Baker, CEO City of Gold Coast

Work has commenced on RDX Lumina, a placemaking Gold Coast Health and Knowledge development by Northwest Healthcare Properties, Australia’s largest healthcare real estate owner.

The Hon. Stirling Hinchliffe, Minister for Tourism, Innovation and Sport yesterday turned sod on the $154m project at a ceremony on the RDX site in the heart of the Precinct’s Lumina commercial district, alongside Northwest President and Regional CEO Craig Mitchell.

RDX is a premium eight-level health and innovation facility fitted for research, biotech, clinical and education functions.

At the ceremony, Mr Hinchcliffe said he expects life sciences work done under RDX’s roof will produce ”innovations that will deliver to the world”.

“We’ll see [RDX] making a massive difference to the way this Precinct delivers on its promise to be a real world-leading cutting edge health and knowledge precinct,” he says. 

Northwest President and Regional CEO Craig Mitchell says the building’s position in the heart of GCHKP will create significant collaboration opportunities for RDX tenants.

“By creating a world-class facility to attract the best people in the industry and encourage further investment in research, development and training, we hope to make a substantial commitment to the broader healthcare industry into the future, in Queensland and beyond.” 

“The GCHKP location represents an added opportunity to collaborate with Griffith University researchers, other clinicians and industry partners.”

Mr Mitchell says RDX will be used for cutting edge life sciences work such as neuroendovascular radiology, interventional cardiology innovation and training, rehabilitation inpatient and outpatient clinical services, human clinical trials, research and virtual care via robotic technologies.

“It’s very important to build the ecosystem where you’ve got the private sector, the public sector, PhD students and researchers—an ecosystem looking at how you take research all the way through to the patient, the whole journey from the lab to bed.” 

After the sod turning, the official party attended the Precinct’s new Neutex Image-Guided Surgical Training and Technologies Centre for a tour conducted by co-founder Dr Hal Rice.

Neutex, a committed tenant of RDX, is working until construction is complete from commercial Precinct space provided by Northwest to deliver world-leading training to specialists from across the Asia Pacific using the latest Philips Image-guided therapy system and technologies. 

The 6-Star Green Star RDX is designed as an all-electric, carbon-neutral building and due for completion mid-2025. 

With Evans Long’s $80m eight-storey development Proxima due for completion 2024, RDX is part of a construction boom in the GCHKP, driven by nearly $250m of private investment. 

June 1, 2023 By Gemma Bull

Filed Under: HEALTH, INVEST, PROJECTS, TECHNOLOGY Tagged With: Dr Hal Rice, Dr Laetitia de Villiers, image-guided surgery, NorthWest, Philips

Global healthcare leader Philips backs high-tech medical training centre in Precinct

Dr Hal Rice, Director Interventional Neuroradiology, GCUH with Dr Atul Gupta, Chief Medical Officer, Philips Image-Guided Therapy and Dr Laetitia de Villiers, Interventional Neuroradiologist, GCUH

Global healthcare technology leader Philips will partner in a unique, cutting-edge research and training centre in the Gold Coast Health and Knowledge Precinct, where its latest image-guided therapy technology will support training specialist physicians from across the Asia-Pacific and pioneer new precision approaches in a wide range of clinical areas – from cardiovascular disease to stroke, cancer, and spine conditions.

Led by interventional neuroradiologists Dr. Hal Rice and Dr. Laetitia de Villiers, who deliver the latest innovative treatments for stroke and brain aneurysms at Gold Coast University Hospital (GCUH), the facility will showcase Philips’ interventional solutions and trial new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), robotics and novel 3D printed anatomical models.

The pilot centre is also being supported by NorthWest Healthcare Properties, ahead of moving into their proposed state-of-the-art new building, ‘RDX Lumina’, on a prominent GCHKP site in the Lumina commercial cluster.

Read the Philips story here.

It’s a centre that represents a revolutionary step in medical education and new technology development to drive the future of minimally-invasive patient care.

Building on a strong track-record of delivering specialised training and conducting world and Australian-first clinical trials at GCUH over the last decade, including a world-first robotic stroke clot removal, Dr. Rice says the facility will be a unique space just for training and technology development.

“This dedicated facility will have the latest equipment and space to accommodate larger groups, without the constraints of prioritising patient care within a busy hospital environment,” Dr. Rice says.

“Importantly we’ll be able to expand our research and development (R&D) in the neurovascular field, while broadening training in other surgical specialties, widely utilising 3D printed models to revolutionise training and looking to a future where AI and robotics will enable remote procedures, virtually anywhere in the world.”

It is incredible to have Philips’ support as our key technology partner and to also be able to bring other leading medical device companies to our facility to join forces in R&D.”

Artist render of the new centre
The latest Philips Azurion biplane system for image-guided therapies

Philips will equip the centre with their Azurion biplane system, a leading platform for interventional procedures, favoured for its intuitive, seamless approach that enables clinicians to focus on treating the patient. The latest version of Azurion takes a further leap in integrating essential lab systems and tools into one platform.

Interventional radiologist and Philips’ Chief Medical Officer for Image Guided Therapy Dr. Atul Gupta said that the global reputation of Dr. Rice and Dr. de Villiers was key to the decision to collaborate in the centre.

“Optimising the workflow across the entire care pathway offers the best chance of improving outcomes for patients with neurological conditions such as stroke and cerebral aneurysms,” says Dr. Gupta.

“One patient, every single second, somewhere on earth has their life improved, or sometimes saved, thanks to one of Philips’ image-guided therapy devices or systems.

It is super important for us to collaborate with leading physicians like Dr Rice and Dr de Villiers here in the Gold Coast Health and Knowledge Precinct, because they are so actively involved in pushing the envelope with neurovascular disease – stroke and cerebral aneurysm care.

We have clinical sites all over the world, 500, 600 clinical sites, but what makes this site so unique is that it is not in a hospital, this freestanding facility is purely focused on education and R&D without having patient care get in the way, which will amplify access to education and training, and furthermore, by virtue of it being on the Gold Coast, is a key hub to access a huge part of the world – the entire Asia-Pacific region.”

The GCHKP location represents an added opportunity to create collaborations with Griffith University researchers, other clinicians and industry partners.

Dr. de Villiers said the new centre would be equipped to enable live links to theatre suites, including a new suite being established at Gold Coast Private Hospital,  for training doctors to be able to review and then replicate complex procedures.

Life-like 3D printed models will revolutionise training

“They will be able to practice on exact 3D printed replica models of the brain blood vessels of patients whose procedures they have just watched us undertake, utilising the state-of-the-art Philips image guidance system,” says Dr. de Villiers.

“They will also be able to rehearse their own patient cases on personalised patient models that accurately simulate the feeling of pulsing blood, that we can 3D print in advance of training, and we can guide them through these difficult procedures.”

Dr Gupta sees an exciting future for image-guided therapies:

I think the future is going to be an inteventional suite powered by even better imaging, perhaps essentially imaging without raditation. We’re going to have even smaller endovascular devices for treatment of cardiovascular disease and its going to be empowered by artificial intelligence, augmented reality and procedural automation”

Pilot facility to be expanded into proposed new building

The new centre, which will also be equipped with high-quality audiovisual and high-speed data links, has been enabled through a substantial fit-out of an existing GCHKP legacy building in the Lumina commercial hub, supported by NorthWest Healthcare Properties, ahead of the proposed development of their ultimate facility – ‘RDX Lumina’. RDX Lumina is planned as a world-class life science, research and innovation focused building. The eight-storey facility will be targeting a 6 Star Green Star rating, a first for the Lumina precinct.

Architectural render of the proposed RDX Lumina building

NorthWest Vice President – Leasing, Georgie Huxley, says of the development: “NorthWest specialises in the development and ownership of market-leading health and life sciences properties and precincts, where we combine complementary facilities and the best medical experts in the field to create a hub of the highest quality healthcare offering possible. RDX Lumina is a great example of the intersect between research, innovation, healthcare and clinical training, led by the involvement of industry leaders Dr. Rice and Dr. de Villiers.

We are proud to be delivering this innovative training facility via our team of Australia’s healthcare real estate experts, as the largest specialist healthcare real estate operator in the country by a considerable margin, leading the way in building design and delivery for this eminent site.”

August 17, 2022 By Kathy Kruger

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