1 min readRemeasuring Reality – Public Hospital Case Study

The advent of 5D revisioning with 3D models is an irreversible industry shift for the quantity surveying profession worldwide.

The ability now exists for the 5DQS to reproduce quantities in a trusted environment, and quickly in comparison to traditional 2D measuring. The technologies and BIM process open up a range of opportunities for the 5DQS to achieve much more for the project team and purposefully contribute to early stages of design. The 5DQS can also provide far greater accuracy of costs and analysis throughout the developed design and construction phases as well as into post construction and facilities management.

The Sunshine Coast University Hospital (SCUH) is the first major new, not replacement, public hospital built in Australia in more than 20 years. It is being delivered as Queensland’s first public hospital Public Private Partnership (PPP), and is due to open in April 2017. The $1.8 billion public tertiary teaching hospital has been built to a 4 star green star rating.

Construction is nearing technical completion and will provide a 450-bed facility over more than 160,000 square metres of hospital space, two multilevel car parks and a range of at-grade spaces providing 3,500 bays across the site. The hospital is expected to grow to its built capacity of 738 beds by 2021.

The Exemplar Health consortium will design, build and partially finance the public hospital as well as maintain it for 25 years.

5DQS model measurement

In early 2013, a team from Mitchell Brandtman’s 5D Quantity Surveyors was engaged to collaborate on the project as a cost planning and procurement team to produce a series of sub-contract guaranteed trade bills of quantities for various trade packages.

The small 5DQS team collocated within the builder’s Brisbane office alongside the cost planning team to not only deliver the packages, but to demonstrate how to interrogate and consume 3D models for the purposes of bill of quantities.

Within just four weeks, a series of…