Green Star Waste Management Plan for the Robina Private Hospital

Challenge

Aurora Healthcare Australia provides medical, rehabilitation and specialty health care services nationwide. It is committed to significant investment in expanded private health services and facilities.

The Robina Private Expansion Project is a purpose-built mixed use specialist private hospital comprising an eight-storey building with 146 beds, group rooms, medical imagery and a day surgery unit developed by Aurora Healthcare Australia. The building will also house Aurora’s corporate office. The project targeted a 5 star Green Star rating.

The project is strategically positioned in close proximity to the Robina Public Hospital and the existing Robina Private Hospital at Robina, which currently provides inpatient surgical, medical, rehabilitation and specialty care.

SLR prepared a construction and operational waste management plan and advice to support the development application for the expansion project.

Solution

Our team prepared the waste management plan to satisfy Green Star requirements, an internationally recognised building rating system that sets standards for healthy, resilient, positive buildings and places. Green Star requirements included setting diversion or waste reduction targets, outlining methods for encouraging separation of waste streams, identifying storage areas for waste streams and best practice safety and access requirements, incorporating a review process to assess success and sign off by a waste specialist according to the Green Star definition.

The principal objective of this waste management plan was to identify potential wastes likely to be generated at the project site during the construction and operational phases, including description of how wastes are proposed to be handled, processed, and disposed of, or re-used or recycled.

The specific objectives of this waste plan were to detail:

• Solid waste volume calculations including general, recycling, and clinical waste.
• Proposed bins, volume, size and dimensions for waste storage areas.
• Details of proposed bin wash-down facilities and
• How waste servicing will be undertaken to service the development in a safe and convenient manner without impacting the amenity of the proposed development and that of adjacent sites.

Impact

Our team was able to prepare a plan to meet the Green Star requirements as well as those of the Robina Central Plan of Development. This focuses on amenity, and not imposing a greater load on the City of Gold Coast’s waste systems and not causing interference with the amenity of the area.

The Green Star system aims to reduce the impact of climate change, enhance our health and quality of life, restore and protect biodiversity and ecosystems, drives resilience in buildings and communities as well as contributing to a sustainable economy.