Last weekend saw an exciting construction milestone on the New Footscray Hospital building site, with a 57 metre pedestrian bridge craned into place to provide easy access across Ballarat Road between Victoria University’s Footscray Park Campus and the new hospital’s education and research centre.
Work commenced on the bridge in August last year, with the construction taking place within the New Footscray Hospital site boundary. The finished structure is set to weigh 120 tonnes, including 80 tonnes of steel reinforcement.
The New Footscray Hospital is the largest health infrastructure project under construction in the state. Located on the corner of Geelong and Ballarat Roads, the new hospital will support the increasing demand from Melbourne’s booming western suburbs, ensuring families can get the care they need close to home.
The New Footscray Hospital will be a world-class hospital providing a full range of emergency, medical, surgical, subacute and mental health services for adult patients. With an increase of more than 200 beds, the new hospital will allow Western Health’s dedicated healthcare teams to treat an additional 15,000 patients, and enable about 20,000 more people to be seen by the emergency department, each year.
The new hospital is on track to open in 2025.
Watch the time lapse footage of the installation
