Education

Established in 1976, Al Ain University in the United Arab Emirates is being redeveloped to reflect the country’s growing higher education needs.

GHD is providing structural, mechanical, electrical and hydraulic engineering design services, as well as building fire services and IT communication services, for the AUD$500 million project. The campus will have a built-up area of almost 292,000sq m across 350ha and will accommodate up to 18,000 students.

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GHD was commissioned to prepare a design for a new Year 1 through to Year 9 campus at Bayside College in Australia. The campus facilitates the merger of several local schools.

The layout of the various buildings are structured around the idea of communal learning villages sharing a common resource centre.

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GHD delivered this award winning master plan for a new campus for Beijing Normal University, one of the most reputable universities in China. 

The new campus is located in Changping District, north Beijing and covers a total of 133ha.

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GHD architects have designed a stylish contemporary new education centre for Guide Dogs Victoria.

Set among the bushland along the Yarra River in Kew, the proposed new building will provide a central venue for training, education and administration activities for the association. GHD designed the facility to consolidate the various campus buildings. It will present a fresh image by providing a new entrance experience and arrival point in a low, lean envelope.

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As the doors of new schools Mission Heights Primary and Mission Heights Junior College opened in February 2009, students experienced New Zealand’s first green schooling environment.

Situated in Auckland, the two schools, with shared library, administration, gymnasium and performing arts centre, will eventually cater for over 1800 students. And a ‘fast-tracked’ timeframe meant the project was not only of a large scale, but also required swift completion.

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Jointly funded by the University of Melbourne and Goulburn Valley Health, this project involved the development of facilities for the rural health division of the Department of Human Services in Victoria. Stage one includes teaching facilities, lecture theatres, meeting rooms, library and administration areas.

As a preliminary to this project, GHD prepared an overall site master plan that identified further accommodation facilities for those students and doctors being trained in the stage one facility.

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Stage two of the School of Rural Health facilities development includes student and staff accommodation. Residential buildings types range from shared accommodation to stand-alone town houses. The project comprises seven 11-bedroom buildings, each identified by form, material and colour selection.

The facilities, developed by the University of Melbourne and Goulburn Valley Health, are to enhance doctors’ experience of living and working in regional areas.

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