Cut to present day and Hanan is a Project Manager (Senior Consultant) within Capital Projects, which sits within our Infrastructure and Urban Renewal team. Here she shares in our passion for improving Australia’s healthcare system. This is something she grew particularly interested in after learning “how poor some of our health care facilities are across New South Wales” and how much of an impact a Project Manager could have in improving this during her previous role with Health Infrastructure.
“I have been involved in the design management and planning of the Westmead Hospital. I contributed to the clinical design of the hospital, which comprised of working with the design team including architects and engineers, and the hospital staff to finalise the design of the hospital. This ranged from high level things such as orientation of bedrooms to minute details such as how many GPOs are required within each room.”
Recalling one “super cool” problem she worked across, Hanan says she helped resolve how highly infectious patients are transferred and treated to mitigate risk of spreading disease. She covered everything from “how you transfer an infectious patient from an ambulance bay to the infectious IPU”, to “how you go about decontaminating the IPU after the patient has left”.
However, it’s not all healthcare work that the team undertakes as they are regularly encouraged to explore new areas of interest. For Hanan, this came in the way of sports infrastructure.
“I’ve also worked on the Allianz Stadium brief. This included drafting the functional requirements of the new stadium. A design is then developed by a contractor based on the functional requirements outlined in the brief. As part of our research, we got to go to a cricket match at the SCG – my first ever!”
It’s this diversity and flexibility to not only work across a range of projects but to engage in different types of work on those projects that Hanan relishes most as a member of the Capital Projects team.
