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PLUMBING CONNECTION
SUMMER 2015
SIPHONING CHANGE
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o support the population growth in one of NSW’s
largest regional cities, Wollongong Hospital was
allocated $30.5m by the NSW State Government to
construct a new multi-deck car park.
The facility, which features more than 750 new parking
spaces, is connected to the existing car park
and to the hospital via a footbridge, and
will see the overall number of parking
spaces double to around 1500. Located
on New Dapto Road, the car park sits
adjacent to the recently completed
Wollongong Hospital redevelopment
project, which included an extension
of the emergency department, the creation of
a large ambulatory care centre and a new elective
surgery centre.
Taking approximately 12 months to complete
construction, the project has been a significant
undertaking by the NSW Ministry of Health, which
appointed Health Infrastructure to oversee its
delivery. AW Edwards was awarded the contract in
2014 and went on to engage DM Plumbing as the hydraulic
subcontractor. Together with Geberit and an extended
team of additional trade subcontractors the project was
completed in May 2015 and operational in June.
“The community, Council and State Government all
recognised parking had become a challenge
at the hospital - particularly since its
expansion into a teaching and referral
hospital with the coming of University
of Wollongong’s graduate medical
school,” DM Plumbing Project
Manager, Troy Williams says.
As one can imagine, a project as
big as this, does not come without challenges.
Fortunately, through innovative product and good
design, those challenges were not too great to
overcome.
A CLEVER SIPHONIC ROOFING SOLUTION FROM GEBERIT HAS REDUCED RAINWATER DRAINAGE PIPING BY UP TO
90% IN WOLLONGONG HOSPITAL’S CAR PARK REDEVELOPMENT.
Geberit’s Pluvia system uses almost half the size of a
conventional pipe to remove large amounts of water.
DRAINAGE