{"id":683813,"date":"2026-05-20T21:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T21:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/683813\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T21:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T21:34:10","slug":"women-and-babies-hospital-plans-for-ambitious-new-1-8-billion-get-concrete-with-first-major-pour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/683813\/","title":{"rendered":"Women and Babies Hospital: Plans for ambitious new $1.8 billion get concrete with first major pour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Builders have completed the first major concrete pour for the new $1.8 billion Women and Babies Hospital in Murdoch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The work marks the beginning of the four-year project, which will see a new 12-storey hospital constructed within the Fiona Stanley Hospital precinct.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The hospital will expand services and care for women and their infants by offering advanced inpatient facilities for gynaecology and maternity patients, a neonatology unit for newborns, operating theatres, a family birth centre and outpatient clinics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Two multi-deck carparks will also be built to meet the increased patient capacity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The major works began on Tuesday, May 19. About 2200cbm of concrete was poured into the construction site over 12 hours to create the hospital base.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">This will be followed by further pours to form a 10,000sqm ground slab, which will be about half the size of Optus Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Health Minister Meredith Hammat said the final project would strengthen WA\u2019s healthcare system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">\u201cThis unprecedented expansion of our public health system will deliver a significant increase in bed capacity to meet our growing community needs with modern, purpose-built facilities,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The first tower crane also arrived at the site on Tuesday. It is at 35m tall and able to lift objects weighing 13 tonnes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Seven other cranes will be delivered to help construct the hospital. The cranes are all fully electric to reduce emissions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The project, alongside a major facilities expansion at Osborne Park Hospital, marks WA\u2019s biggest hospital building program, with the Cook Government investing $5.5 billion to deliver it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1ca6bfde46651afe2a8922ebad212df17c720ed2.jpg\" alt=\"The first major concrete pour has been completed at the new Women and Babies Hospital in Murdoch.\" class=\"css-16r7l45-StyledImage en5ut4d0\"\/>Camera IconThe first major concrete pour has been completed at the new Women and Babies Hospital in Murdoch. Credit: Supplied<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Activity at the construction site is expected to be full steam ahead, with work on the building\u2019s main above-ground structures and the hospital\u2019s main floors expected to start before the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Health Infrastructure Minister John Carey said the government was setting a rapid pace, with more projects in the pipeline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">\u201cThe first major concrete pour and arrival of the first of eight tower cranes has occurred about six months after breaking ground on the new Women and Babies Hospital,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">\u201cWe are also delivering a new emergency department at Royal Perth Hospital and new and upgraded hospitals across regional WA.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Builders have completed the first major concrete pour for the new $1.8 billion Women and Babies Hospital in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":683814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[64,63,155775,137,500,44,46,1836,8080,45],"class_list":["post-683813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cockburn","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-news","tag-perth","tag-public-health","tag-south","tag-wa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/683814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}