Major Infrastructure Projects
Current major projects regularly monitored by the Major Projects Coordination Group (MPCG)
- Neuroscience precinct development
- Peter Doherty Institute
- Student Housing Project
- National Centre for Coasts and Climate
- Graduate Learning Centres
- Neural Engineering
- Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre
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New Building for Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning (ABP)
- Melbourne Oral Health Training and Education Centre (MOHTEC)
- New Building for Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning
- Neuroscience precinct development
- The Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative (VLSCI)
- The Melbourne Brain Centre
- Centre for Neural Engineering
- Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (AURIN)
- National eResearch Collaboration Tools and Resources (NeCTAR)
- Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre (partner in Melbourne Health project)
- Northern Health Clinical facility (partner with Latrobe University)
- Student Housing
- Gateway Health Sciences Building
- South Parkville Precinct Development
- Baillieu Library Development
- Southbank Development
- Dookie 21
New Building for Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning (ABP)
This development will create an outstanding new building to accommodate members of the Faculty and the Melbourne School of Design. Strategically, the project will ensure the University is strongly positioned and known as an organisation committed to design innovation.
Constructed on the existing ABP building site on campus, the new building will support teaching and learning of integrated planning, design and construction practices and feature a built-to scale-laboratory to improve collaborative research.
Detailed design of the 15,000m2 building is underway. Construction is expected to be complete in late 2014, in time for the building to be fully operational at the start of first semester 2015.
Neuroscience precinct development
Development of this major new precinct will create the largest neuroscience and mental health research facility in Australia, significantly increasing Australia’s capacity to undertake medical research.
Peter Doherty Institute
The $210 million Peter Doherty Institute is a partnership between the University of Melbourne and Melbourne Health, established to create a world-class institute combining research into infectious disease and immunity with teaching excellence, reference laboratory diagnostic services, epidemiology and clinical services.
Once operational in 2014, the Peter Doherty Institute will bring together around 700 expert scientists, researchers, clinicians, academics, staff and students to share resources, equipment and knowledge. It will be the first Institute of its kind in the southern hemisphere
Student Housing Project
The University is examining a range of options to provide significantly more student accommodation over a range of rental cost levels for students.
Graduate Learning Centres
This EIF funded project will lead to the refurbishment of 13,326m2 of teaching and learning spaces for graduate education in Arts; Architecture, Building and Planning Education; Engineering; Land and Environments; Law; and Science.The University will also construct the Learning Environment Spatial Lab (LESL) which will serve as a research facility; a ‘working classroom’; a professional-development program space for academic staff; and a research laboratory to inform the design and development of the future graduate education classrooms.
Neural Engineering
This $34.1m research infrastructure project will develop a Centre for Neural Engineering that brings together researchers in two areas where the University already has world-class expertise and scale. Engineering and neuroscience researchers within the Centre will collaboratively study biological neural networks to develop new ways to combat neurological diseases, such as epilepsy, and contribute to development of next generation biotechnologies and neural prostheses, such as the bionic eye.