The Northern Beaches Hospital (NBH) is a level 5 facility, with 488 beds including a 61-bed mental health unit and a wide range of medical services. The construction scope included delivery of a 70,000m2 hospital with a 40,000m2 carpark providing 1250 spaces. The hospital includes 14 operating theatres, 50 emergency department spaces, two cardiac catheter labs, four procedure rooms, a state-of-the-art intensive care department, six surgical suites and commissioning and training facilities. The precinct-wide development included landscaping; services augmentation; and new off-site mains electrical, sewer, communications and water to the greenfield site.  This was a highly complex design and construction project that delivered NSW’s first operator-led healthcare Public–Private Partnership (PPP). The first hospital built on a greenfield site in Sydney in 20 years, the NBH is also the first 4-Star Green Star hospital in NSW, and the second constructed in Australia. Being fully responsible for design, CPB Contractors led the concept and design development process, ensuring Healthscope had full visibility of each stage of the process and that the final draft met the requirement of the operators’ brief. 
This included: 
 -    Developing the master plan, concept and schematic design, including all design facets of the facility.
 -    Preparing, submitting and managing the Development Application (DA) on Healthscope’s behalf. 
 -    Managing all user group reviews, developing all third-party user group requirements and retail areas. 
 -    Developing Detail Design Reports (DDRs) and Construction Documentation Reports (CDRs) detailing all aspects of the design and how this design met the briefed requirements. 
The team responded to more than 5000 review comments and completed 70 per cent of detailed design in the first six months of construction, securing 90 per cent of detailed design within 12 months of construction.   This was a complex, large-scale greenfield project delivered across a 6.5-hectare site with no road infrastructure in place. It was surrounded by road construction on three quarters of the site, with boundaries to the north, east and south and a large high school to the west. Existing roads carried 130,000 vehicles per day. These conditions placed difficult limitations on truck movements with only ‘left in’ and ‘left out’ allowed on Warringah Road to service the site. Considering the restricted site access, full design brief responsibility, first NSW PPP requirements and the need to satisfy the hospital operators’ requirements, together with NSW Health’s requirements, CPB has provided quality design and high-standard finishes in this brand-new hospital. The CPB Contractors’ project scope included all aspects of design and construction from concept to managing all environmental approvals. The project was delivered six weeks ahead of schedule.   The finishes were highly specified to provide a modern, up-to-date feel. The execution of these finishes was of a high standard. CPB Contractors has dealt with many complexities on this project in order to produce a well-finished hospital for Healthscope and Sydney’s Northern Beaches and is worthy of this award.