If any of you guys live nearby the RBH, you would have noticed recently that the big old white buildings fronting Bowen Bridge Rd have just recently been demolished. I'm presuming a new development will be announced some time this year, all I hope is that it doesn't look like the crap new Women's Hospital buildings.

I don't think anything is going to be built there - just green space. I think its a shame that the old buildings were torn down because they would have made fantastic apartment conversions.

jt

If you look at the sign out the front of the RBH there is a artists rendering of what the hospital will look like after ALL the new developments are finished and it shows a new building in the old ones place. have a look next time your up there.

Those old buildings that they've ripped down had the old theatre complex in it, and let me tell you, the place was a bloody mess!
The building had a certain asthetic apeal from the outside, but they were grotty and yucky on the indside. All i can say is thank god they finally got rid of them... if only they got rid of some of the other crap in there, its like a micro city in a city block!

is the word im looking for 'microcosm' lol, who knows, i went to a public school so a tad dense in language usage lol

I went past the new Princess Alexandra Hospital the other day and it looks Spectacular!!! The design is amazing and aparently so is the lobby.

Someone who works there told me that the interior is similar to the inside of Startreck Voyager. If the outside is anything to go by it looks like it could take off at any minute.
jt

ya hopefully the new PA building wont have the Golden Staff outbreak like the old ones
hehehe fingers crossed

Originally posted by Danubis
ya hopefully the new PA building wont have the Golden Staff outbreak like the old ones
hehehe fingers crossed

A friend of mine went into the PA a few years ago - whe went in with something minor and caught Golden Staff. It was OK though as she was VERY obese when she went in and she came out skinny.
jt

I actually liked the facade of the old building.
It's too bad they had to demolish it instead of renovating it.

Now I can see the horrible 60's looking orange brick building behind it from Lutwytch Rd.
I hope the new building will cover it up.

ssssh.... it'll be the new fad diet of the stars soon, keep it quiet!! lol

Originally posted by Danubis
ssssh.... it'll be the new fad diet of the stars soon, keep it quiet!! lol

I once had Hyperthyroidism - that is when you thyroid gland goes berserk and produces too much thyrotoxin. It was fantastic! My metabolism sped up and I lost weight plus I could eat all the fatty sweet foods I liked:D

I got over it though:(

jt

Found out some info at work today, those buildings that have recently been demolished will be replaced by a huge conferece centre, with three main areas. The largest will be a 1000 seat with balcony 'theatre like' venue, the other 2 will be 300 and 200 respectively... Looking forward to seeing some design... also, some useless bit of trivia - royal brisbane is the largest hospital in the southern hemisphere!

found a link that details what they've built at the royal bris over the past few years... quite intersting

http://www.health.qld.gov.au/cwamb/sbp/Section03-Herston.pdf

has anyone noticed the cladding they've put on the convention centre at the royal along slutwitch road? dosnt look to bad, they should be finished soonish me thinx.

We need some Brisbane hospital pictures here.

RBH main building
http://www.profilerealestate.com.au/Photos/Suburb.Herston-sml.jpg

RBH Aerial 1994
http://www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/uhtbin/hyperion-image/BCC-L03-952

RBH Aerial 1966
http://www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/uhtbin/hyperion-image/BCC-B120-30651

RBH 1908
http://www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/uhtbin/hyperion-image/BCC-C120-13332

Mater Hospital 1908
http://www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/uhtbin/hyperion-image/BCC-C120-13331

Old PA U/C, early 1970's
http://www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/uhtbin/hyperion-image/BCC-B120-30773

If anyone has anymore please add them. Or any info about Brisbane hospitals, I always think of the Mater, the RBH and the PA as being the main hospitals. But you see others like the Prince Charles and Greenslopes, Wesley, etc as well which look pretty big. I know Greenslopes was a military hospital, and the Wesley is private, but does anyone have any info on what the others do, and if they take general emergencies as well?

The RBH once had a beaut 49m/160ft tall brick boiler chimney. it was pulled down in 1998:bash: The Mater still has one which i got measured at 30m/100ft tall. It was erected in 1950 and is now protected.

Heres the Mater Misericordiae Private

http://www.ahc.gov.au/cgi-bin/rne_photodb/rne_photodb.pl?action=get_photo&photoid=18617&phototype=P&indigenous=

Hey Cull, isn't that the Mater Children's, I was in there once years ago with bronchitis.

Originally posted by Aussie Bhoy
Hey Cull, isn't that the Mater Children's, I was in there once years ago with bronchitis.

lol, my office window is there on the far right of the pic!! second floor. used to be old kids icu section, now used for anaesthetic tech training and office space for asapo.

they were laying the grass around the royal bris convention centre and putting in mature trees... They plan to open it next week i think

Will the brown tower on the corner be refurbished on the exterior, driving inbound it looks like part of the north facing wall has been done...

Will the brown tower on the corner be refurbished on the exterior, driving inbound it looks like part of the north facing wall has been done...

they've just panneled the bits that used to join up to the existing tower that they demolished to make way for the convention centre... they're leaving the rest of the tower as is unfortunately

One of the rules of designing new hospital buildings is that they must clash completely with all existing buildings on the site. This applies to new university buildings as well. :speech:

I found out yesterday that they also built a state of the art 'mock' theatre setup / training centre... you can pretend to do a lap chole and make the manikin die... apparently its world class in terms of technology, i had a go with some of my fellow technicians at the hospital to try and revive the stupid manikin... it died... hahaha, so yeah, come to the royal bris guys hahaha youre in safe hands

UQ Centre for Clinical Research (UQCCR)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v499/danubiis/Walkwayview.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v499/danubiis/Elevation.jpg
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In partnership with the Queensland Government and major US Philanthropic organisation Atlantic Philanthropies, UQ plans to establish a new $60 million Centre for Clinical Research (CCR) at the Royal Brisbane and Women`s Hospital (RBWH).

The CCR will focus on patient-orientated research conducted in response to questions that arise “at the bedside” and aims to provide better treatment and results for patients, as well as adding to the body of knowledge about particular diseases or problems.

UQ Vice Chancellor, Professor Hay said the Centre would seek to address the lack of appropriate facilities for clinical research in Queensland.

“The National Health and Medical Research Council reported in 2003 that when it called for submissions on clinical research none gave a positive view,” Professor Hay said.

“All the submissions confirmed that strong remedial action was required to maintain and enhance the capacity of Australian clinical research.

“The UQ Centre for Clinical Research will hope to do this by bringing together leading medical researchers in state-of-the-art facilities, thereby providing a focus for world-class clinical research.”

The Centre will initially focus on four areas of research, but will adopt a dynamic approach, with other clinical strengths emerging and prioirities changing as the Centre develops. The initial focus will be on:

Clinical Outcomes and Clinical Trials:
The RBWH represents one of the largest patient care facilities in Australia with a statewide referral base. The Centre will grow the clinical trials work particularly focusing on ambulatory Phase Two – Early Phase Three trials with intensive investigation of patients undergoing new treatments. It will also develop new databases which will enable the tracking of the outcomes for patients with many diseases and facilitate the evaluation of new technologies.

Molecular and Cellular Pathology:
Drawing on the strengths in the University of Queensland in molecular biology and the resource base of the Queensland Health Pathology Service, this program will develop better understanding of the links between pathological changes at a molecular and cellular level and the clinical expression of disease which will also lead to new or improved diagnostic technologies. Fields of research will include breast, bowel and prostate cancer.

Clinical Neuroscience:
This program will build on existing strengths in basic neuroscience in the University of Queensland (including the Queensland Brain Institute) and in the RBWH to develop and evaluate new modes of diagnosis and treatment of neurological disease particularly dementia, stroke, movement disorders, and brain injury. Research will include neuroimmunology, neuropharmacology and neuroprotection.

Tissue Inflammation and Injury Repair:
Inflammation is a fundamental part of many diseases and a prime target for therapeutic interventions. Injury repair refers to the way that the body recovers from physical insults such as burns or inflammation. This program will link basic research on inflammation and repair with new approaches to treating inflammation and promoting repair.

The new eight story building will be facing Bowen Bridge Road, between the Education Centre and Block 7 at RBWH. The tenders has recently been let, with construction to be commenced shortly. The building will be completed by December 2007.

^^ As if we dont have enough research centres?!!! :P

cul -> ive only guessed the height, can you look at the plans and change the title height accordingly?

ps - i walk past the site everyday, and they've just started earthworks last week on it, so started already!

pps - is this tall enough to be added to emporis, and are the other buildings on the herston campus included in the emporis database for brisbane?

I was actually thinking this yesterday when I went past there!

Will they experiment on people?

ive just had a scan through the buildings list on emporis, and i cant any of the hospitals buildings on there!!!

heres my estimations of height -

Ned Hanlon Building - 10 stories plus roof feature/helipad (approx 45-50m)
RBH Block Seven - 14 stories (approx 60m)
Qld institute of Medical Research - 12 stories plus roof feature (approx 55m)
UQ Clinical Sciences Building - 8 stories (approx 36m)

I put the main RBH building on there some years ago, not sure if the others are on there though.

What are the 2 older twin buildings behind the RCH? They are around 12 stories each.

they're the mental health buildings, but they're on a hill so look taller then they really are.

i found the main rbh building you speak of on emporis, but it says its 15 stories (theres 9 levels in the lift plus a ground level), and dosnt specify a height, cul said when he estimated the toowoomba hospital height for emporis, that hospital floor heights are typically 4.5m -> http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=royalbrisbanehospital,mainbuilding-brisbane-australia

When I say main building, I mean the OLD main building on the cnr of Herston and Bowen Bridge Rds.

^^ this will be good as it will hide that hideous brown building to the right of it.

also, the busway will be running directly past it. i wonder how construction of this and the busway will be staged.

UQ also has the new Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN). THe building only opended a few months back if I recall correctly. This is from the Website: www.aibn.uq.edu.au

“Having opened in recent years the $105 million Queensland Bioscience Precinct housing the Institute for Molecular Bioscience, and the $24 million Sir James Foots Building housing the Sustainable Minerals Institute, UQ will next year commission the new $64 million home of the Queensland Brain Institute.”

I can't get bigger pictures unfortunately...

http://www.aibn.uq.edu.au/images/Building/Building17.jpg http://www.aibn.uq.edu.au/images/Building/Building2.jpg

Also keep an eye out for the upcoming Pharmacy Australia Centre of Excellence (PACE) over near the Boggo Rd Jail redevelopment, attached top the PA Hospital.

When I say main building, I mean the OLD main building on the cnr of Herston and Bowen Bridge Rds.

thats block Seven, as per my list above ^^

the 8storey clinical research bldg measures in at 36m roof- 40m LMR.
cheers

UQ oozes quality and substance unlike pos Gardens Point QUT.

ive just had a scan through the buildings list on emporis, and i cant any of the hospitals buildings on there!!!

heres my estimations of height -

Ned Hanlon Building - 10 stories plus roof feature/helipad (approx 45-50m)
RBH Block Seven - 14 stories (approx 60m)
Qld institute of Medical Research - 12 stories plus roof feature (approx 55m)
UQ Clinical Sciences Building - 8 stories (approx 36m)

i have heights from elevation
RBH blck 7=56m roof, 67m plant (tallest hospital bldg in OZ)
QLD institute-47m, roof feature-65m
Ned hanlon-?
new clinical research bldg-36m, 40m lmr
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theres actually two buildings that comprise the QLD institute of medical research (the one in the middle is the Clive Burghoffer Cancer Research Building)- you should be able to guess the heights compared to 56m RBH block 7 building Culwulla - as per these photos i took a while back->

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v499/danubiis/walk19.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v499/danubiis/walk21.jpg

So in order thanx to cul's Varification-

RBH Block 7 (admin Centre) - 14st/67m Emporis URL (Also, this needs to be fixed on emporis - http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=108547)

QLD Institute of medical Research - 12st/65m Emporis URL (http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=qldinstituteofmedicalresearch%2Dbrisbane%2Daustralia)

Clive Burghoffer Cancer Centre - 11st/ ?? (no emporis url as yet)

Ned Hanlon Building - 10st/40m Emporis URL (http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=nedhanlonbuilding%2Dbrisbane%2Daustralia)

UQ Centre for Clinical Research - 8st/40m Emporis URL (http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=uqcentreofclinicalresearch%2Dbrisbane%2Daustralia)


Also, this needs to be fixed on emporis as its listed as 'main building block 7, but has the picture of the Ned Hanlon Building- Emporis URL (Also, this needs to be fixed on emporis - http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=108547)

since this has turned into a general info thread on the royal brisbane, thought i would post this good picture from aussiebhoy


http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/8732/pb020090iv9.jpg
http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/3382/pb020008se9.jpg

and cul, do you think the twin buildings of the old rbh as seen in this picture can be added to the 'royal brisbane complex' section that you've created for emporis? ->

http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/9010/pb020044zg6.jpg

this is racing through construction, the one lift core is already 3 stories out of the ground, and the other looks about 2 stories out... they're not building any basement levels... i'll try and get some pics soon :)

UQ is great
Without a doubt the most visually pleasing campus in the country.

Buildings are nice in Melbourne and Sydney (especially Melbourne Uni) - but both of these uni's have major roads going straight through their campus....Unlike UQ.

^^ Qld uni's are one extreme to the other. UQ is sensational whilst QUT is as ugly as a dog's arse!

Unfortunately UQ's not in the same league as Melbourne Uni on many other fronts.

UQ is spoilt by all the crappy 70's shit built around the grand sandstone buildings.

Unfortunately UQ's not in the same league as Melbourne Uni on many other fronts.

Most universities do not rank higher than Melbourne. Queensland, Sydney and NSW all jostle for the next position. Queensland has on numerous occasion been ranked second in Australia.

ANU does at times and always ranks ahead of UQ. One must wonder on what basis these rankings are calculated though (research grants?), and if anyone beyond the undergraduate stage really cares. I have met so many UQ undergrads who demonstrate an odd pompous pride because they went there.

^
Yep, ANU generally ranks highly and this year was #1 in Australia on the world university rankings. That said, what they mark on are things such as "number of nobel prize winning alumni', 'no of noble prize winning staff', no of articles in nature and science' - these are hardly the markers of a quality university or education.

I excluded ANU. Its boring.

There is a survey from the UK which is generally the most respected. Melbourne was ranked in the top 20 last year. I can't remember what ANU was. But I do remember looking at UQ, NSW and Sydney which were all below 60.

I am at QUT. I concur.

I excluded ANU. Its boring.

There is a survey from the UK which is generally the most respected. Melbourne was ranked in the top 20 last year. I can't remember what ANU was. But I do remember looking at UQ, NSW and Sydney which were all below 60.

That would be the Times Higher education ranking...and it really sucks - it's even more pathetic than the SJTU World Rankings

40% of the rankings comprise of a reputational survey of academics, while another 10% is determined by a reputational survey of global employers. This is inheritantly subjective, as it is based a small band of mostly British academics and employers. Because it is a British survey, it is unsurprinsing that the UK universities do exceptionally well, but the ranking of Australian universities is also over-inflated: the University of Melbourne has a ranking almost equivalent to Yale and Princeton in the reputational survey of academics.

Melbourne - 19
ANU - 23
Monash - 33
Sydney - 38
NSW - 40
UQ - 47

one core box up to level 4, the other level 3, but still finishing off the first floor plate.

just curious, is there a thread for UQ? I've some pics to share. :)

one core box up to level 4, the other level 3, but still finishing off the first floor plate.

Gee wizz - there is a local Brisbane site concerned with buildings under 15st. Do moderators encourage individual threads allowing posts about 8, 5 or 3st skycrapers?? Do moderators sanction uncontrolled posts on Skyscrapercity of information that wastes members' time checking details of what are simply low-rise developments?

I can read the header - a building of 8st. This simply ain't a skyscraper and this thread should be deleted or put under some other thread.

Gee wizz - there is a local Brisbane site concerned with buildings under 15st. Do moderators encourage individual threads allowing posts about 8, 5 or 3st skycrapers?? Do moderators sanction uncontrolled posts on Skyscrapercity of information that wastes members' time checking details of what are simply low-rise developments?

I can read the header - a building of 8st. This simply ain't a skyscraper and this thread should be deleted or put under some other thread.

true, maybe this thread should be merged with the more general Royal Brisbane Hospital Thread - as it stands, i think the whole site has like 7 buildings listed in emporis, so i think its reasonable that there is some sort of thread devoted to it, but you're right, maybe not to each individual building.

thankyou for your constructive critisism.

Can someone merge this thread with the UC - UQ research building thread??

cheers.

daniel.

thankyou for your constructive critisism.

Hi Danubis - you're so quick off the mark and I'm impressed. I expected some flack but I've always admired your contributions and it my post was not intended to be overtly critical. Thank you for getting it right!

:) no probs.

Gee wizz - there is a local Brisbane site concerned with buildings under 15st. Do moderators encourage individual threads allowing posts about 8, 5 or 3st skycrapers?? Do moderators sanction uncontrolled posts on Skyscrapercity of information that wastes members' time checking details of what are simply low-rise developments?

I can read the header - a building of 8st. This simply ain't a skyscraper and this thread should be deleted or put under some other thread.

This is a skyscraper: at 40m, it is over the 35m limit.

While the 'Buildings under 15 stories' thread does allow buildings that could be listed as true skyscrapers to be discussed, it is really meant for buildings that do not pass 35m. This is demonstrated by the Picadilly Center and Tribune which, while listed within that thread, also have their own.

Your complaints about wasting member's time is flimsy, as the basic info is provided in the title of the thread: if you're not interested, you certainly don't have to look.

Overall, I do not believe your critique is just. If a moderator decides to merge this thread, then I'm fine with that, but I feel that this thread seperately has merit.

/flack

I'll do it soon, this must be one of the oldest threads around. Goes back to 2003 and still on 1st page.

topped out now... some interesting use of preformed concrete on the hospital side of the building... sorta zigs in and out.