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About the UNSW Health Translation Hub

Construction is underway for the UNSW Health Translation Hub and UNSW’s expansion into the Randwick Health & Innovation Precinct is on track to be completed in late 2025.

A significant project for UNSW, the UNSW HTH will integrate health education, training and research with acute healthcare services, directly benefiting patients, carers and the NSW community.

Located on the corner of High Street and Botany Street Randwick, the UNSW HTH includes:

Purpose-built spaces for researchers, educators and industry partners to work alongside clinicians
Education, training and research rooms
Clinical schools and ambulatory care clinics
Food and beverage retail and supporting amenities including allied health services
Space for community and cultural events
Publicly accessible open space for the community
Pedestrian prioritised links, including bridges, to easily connect to UNSW’s Kensington Campus and the broader Randwick Hospitals Campus.

The UNSW HTH has been developed to support the acceleration of improved health services for communities locally and globally. The UNSW HTH is not just a building but instead a place which will drive UNSW’s vision to be the future of health.

The new UNSW Plaza, with 2,500 square metres of publicly accessible open space, will help to create an engaging and welcoming place for staff, students, patients, community, industry partners who are attracted to learn, research, work and socialise.

UNSW Sydney has partnered with the Plenary Group-led Plenary Health consortium to deliver the $600 million facility

The long-term partnership involves Plenary Health funding, developing and operating the 35,600-square-metre facility, supported by an initial 20-year commitment from UNSW to occupy 65% of the available space. The remaining space will be open to industry, providing a golden opportunity for like-minded partners to co-locate with the University and within the hospital precinct.

UNSW has worked with some of Australia’s leading consultants including Architectus, Aspect Studios, Yerrabingin and Arup to develop the Health Translation Hub.

The UNSW HTH will sit adjacent to the Sydney Children’s Stage 1 and Minderoo Children’s Comprehensive Cancer Centre building. These two buildings will accompany the new Prince of Wales Acute Services Building (ASB) to expand the Randwick Health & Innovation Precinct. UNSW has approximately 5000 square metres of space co-located with ASB which promotes physical and working integration between UNSW and the Hospital.

UNSW workspace will be open and flexible

Benefits

Targeting outstanding sustainability benchmarks

Targeting a 6 Star Green Star Buildings rating, it will be the first building in NSW, and only the second in Australia, to achieve such a rating under new Green Building Council of Australia rating tool. The building incorporates a range of sustainable design features including 100 kW rootop PV system, all-electric design featuring heat pumps, rainwater harvesting, post-tensioned slabs to reduce structural mass, façade hoods to reduce solar heat gain, and native and medicinal landscaping. As well as a Green Star Buildings rating, the project is targeting 5.5 Star NABERS Energy and 5 Star NABERS Water ratings.

Randwick Health and Innovation Precinct

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The NSW Government has partnered with the University of New South Wales (UNSW) to strengthen the Randwick Health & Innovation Precinct through the integration of additional health education, training, and research with acute healthcare services - directly benefiting patients, carers, and the wider NSW community.

Building on over 60 years of teaching hospital affiliations, this partnership will help grow the relationship between UNSW and the Randwick Hospitals Campus, its research institutes and broader health partners.

The UNSW HTH will enable a seamless physical and working integration between the hospitals and UNSW, positioning the wider precinct at the forefront of international health research and education.

The Randwick Health & Innovation Precinct is an initiative where UNSW’s teachers, researchers and students can thrive. Students will work side-by-side with researchers on real-life cases and practitioners will be better positioned to answer big research questions and solve significant health problems.

The inspiration is that this shared interaction will allow researchers to undertake studies that are immediately relevant in the real world, with the results of these studies benefitting patients available to the treating clinicians without delay.

The precinct will move toward a more personalised, holistic approach to healthcare supported by community-based services that promote patient participation, early detection of illness and maintenance of good health to prevent illness.