Office of Major Projects
Current Projects
Hearing Hub
- Estimated capital: $140 million
- Estimated completion date: End of 2011
- OMP Role: Owners Representative
Project Details
The Macquarie University Hearing Hub will be a unique, world-class facility purpose-designed to understand hearing and related speech and language disorders.
It will bring together the University's internationally leading research teams (Language Sciences and Cognitive Sciences), clinical research/professional training teams (Audiology and Speech Language Pathology), and potentially major government research organisations like (Australian Hearing with the National Acoustic Laboratories), research and implantation teams from Australia's leading hearing technology company (Cochlear Ltd), and major not for profit organisations offering clinical and related social services for hearing disorders.
The Hearing Hub will also be the Sydney node of the HEARing CRC (which itself has 5 core and 24 supporting organisations from across Australia).
The Hearing Hub will provide additional teaching and learning scope for students in Hearing, Audiology and language sciences.
The Hearing Hub, together with Cochlear Global Headquarters will help to make Macquarie University a true leader globally for hearing and related disorders.
The Hearing Hub will enable internationally leading advances in mapping brain/hearing function, understanding auditory processing, assessing auditory system disorders, developing hearing aid and implant technologies and improving strategies for rehabilitation and learning to hear.
One in six Australians have hearing loss and thus the Hearing Hub has enormous potential to advance research of benefit to the Australian community. It will deliver research, education and training outcomes, building capacity through new staff and increased numbers of students attracted to the University and by way of collaboration with the partner organisations, and it will do this at the highest international level of excellence.
OMP lead the submissions process for the successful funding application from the Higher Education Endowment Fund (HEEF) and will now lead the design and project management process as Owners Representative. The project is likely to have a capital cost of around $140 million and is planned to be completed by the end of 2011.
Project Updates
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April 2009
An Request for Proposals (RFP) has been issued for Project Management Services with the RFP for these works closing on at the end of March 2009. Discussions have been held and will continue with Australian Hearing, Cochlear and MQ Faculty of Human Science to confirm commitment and finalise a Heads of Agreement. It is anticipated this will be resolved by the end of April 2009.
During April it is proposed to issue an RFP for various Design Consulting services and commence the process of reviewing and subsequently awarding consultant commissions for these services.
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