Award Winning C27 Bridge Link & Pharmacy Teaching Lab

The C27 Bridge Link and Pharmacy Teaching Lab at the University of New South Wales is a recent BSA project. The project won recently won the Faculty Innovation Award as part of the Faculty of Medicine at UNSW.

The UNSW project involved decommissioning 350m2 of existing PC2 laboratory space on level 2 of the Wallace Wurth Building to provide a new corridor linking the adjacent HTH sky bridge and to accommodate a new a pharmacy teaching lab for 38 students.

The project was highly complex in nature and required careful sequencing to maintain existing PC2 laboratory operations while the construction works were being undertaken.  A project plan was developed which proposed progressive decanting of equipment and associated building works that maintained lab operations, ensuring the PC2 boundary was unaffected and avoided any shutdown for OGTR recertification.

Following the completion of the PC2 boundary adjustments, works progressed with the fit-out of a new corridor that linked the HTH bridge over Botany Street to the internal floor plate of level 2 of Wallace Wurth.

Walls bounding each side of the new corridor link were glazed where possible to provide transparency and to showcase university teaching and laboratory activities.  Floor wall and ceiling finishes were selected to integrate within the building’s interior and to provide a seamless interface.

The last component of the project was the construction of a new 38 seat pharmacy teaching space designed to integrate 3 teaching activities into one footprint.  This included a pharmacy compounding and skills lab, a general teaching space complete with integrated AV and a new mock clean room facility.

The purpose of the mock clean room is to simulate a fully certified grade B clean room in terms of finishes, controls, equipment and functionality that will provide students with hands on experience with clean room operations.  A small preparation lab adjacent to the main lab also formed part of the brief for the pharmacy space.

The fitout of the pharmacy space included new laboratory benches, customised storage units, new fume cupboards, laboratory sinks and other specialist equipment required for teaching.  The new AV system is fully integrated complete with a height adjustable lectern and presenter console, multiple document cameras located around the room to broadcast demonstrations and multiple high resolution display monitors positioned to provide coverage over the entire room.