Contain Yourself! Good Design for Bio Containment and the End User

Contain Yourself!

Good Design for Bio Containment and the End User

Building bio containment laboratories are challenging enough, when the laboratories are embedded in the middle of a hospital on a restricted urban site the solution becomes even harder. Kiri Collins - Head of Built Environment & Infrastructure at Children’s Cancer Institute, and Bettina Bartos – Principal Architect for the new Minderoo Children’s Comprehensive Cancer Centre - will outline how End-User engagement was prioritised throughout the design process and some of the key design initiatives that resulted.

Due for completion in 2025, Australia's first Children’s Comprehensive Cancer Centre will bring together the best research and clinical minds in a truly integrated environment, focussed on achieving the best outcomes for children with cancer, accelerating innovation to intervention and providing excellence in research-driven clinical care. 

The MCCCC will provide technologically advanced PC-2 laboratory facilities, dedicated high-quality patient clinical spaces together with contemporary workspaces for research scientists and clinicians. This presentation will examine how moving to an activity-based approach to utilisation of laboratories enabled the ultimate in flexible design. It will also detail how the integration of patient care and research has led to a more sustainable solution for both patients and researchers, by creating a co-culture of clinical care and research.

The result is laboratories designed for activities, workflows and collaboration.