Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Located within the Adelaide CBD, the new Royal Adelaide Hospital (nRAH) is Adelaide’s largest hospital, an 800-bed facility delivering some of the most technologically advanced healthcare infrastructure in Australia and providing clinical care for around 85,000 inpatients and 400,000 outpatients each year. Dewick & Associates provided full technical writing services for the mechanical services package of works, covering heating, ventilation, air conditioning, specialist ventilation and medical gas systems, with the O&M Manuals delivered using the online DOME platform, working with mechanical contractor BSA All Staff and managing contractor Hansen Yuncken.
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BSA All Staff delivered the mechanical services package for the new Royal Adelaide Hospital, an 800-bed facility comprising heating, ventilation, air conditioning, specialist ventilation and medical gas systems supporting one of Australia’s most technologically advanced hospitals. Managing contractor Hansen Yuncken oversaw the broader project, which also required review of builders manual content and detailed rewriting of maintenance schedules across numerous additional trades. BSA All Staff engaged Dewick & Associates to provide full technical writing services for the mechanical scope, with O&M Manuals delivered via the online DOME platform.
Documenting the mechanical services for an 800-bed hospital of nRAH’s scale means covering an exceptionally broad scope — heating, ventilation, air conditioning, specialist ventilation and medical gas systems — across a building treating 85,000 inpatients and 400,000 outpatients annually, all delivered through the online DOME platform. Beyond the core mechanical scope, supporting Hansen Yuncken as managing contractor meant reviewing builders manual content and rewriting maintenance schedules spanning trades as varied as structural steel, waterproofing, landscaping, generators, high voltage power, concreting, stormwater, hazardous gas monitoring and wet fire systems.
Dewick & Associates’ technical authors provided full technical writing services for the nRAH mechanical services package via the online DOME platform, covering heating, ventilation, air conditioning, specialist ventilation and medical gas systems, and supported Hansen Yuncken as managing contractor through review of all services, builders manual content, and detailed review and rewriting of maintenance schedules across trades including structural steel, waterproofing, landscaping, generators, high voltage power, concreting, stormwater, hazardous gas monitoring and wet fire systems, with preventative maintenance schedules built for one of Australia’s largest hospitals — supported by a PDF case study of the project.
The project resulted in comprehensive online Mechanical Services O&M documentation via DOME for the new Royal Adelaide Hospital, alongside multi-trade maintenance schedule support for managing contractor Hansen Yuncken, giving Adelaide’s largest hospital reliable building services records across HVAC, specialist ventilation and medical gas systems. For a no-obligation quote on online mechanical documentation for your next major hospital project, contact Dewick & Associates.
The content in this case study has been informed by project documentation and client communication provided to Dewick & Associates during and following the completion of the project.
Dewick – PDF Case Study available at: https://dewick.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/New-Royal-Adelaide-Hospital-nRAH-South-Australia.pdf
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