Uniting AgeWell’s Preston community offers a blend of residential care options to support each resident’s unique ageing journey. Higgins constructed the new RACF which contains 104 single rooms arranged across a three-storeys. With a focus on dementia and palliative care services, we fitted each room with a nurse call system and patient monitoring technology.

Communal amenities include lounge rooms, multipurpose rooms, a cafe with alfresco dining and a mini-mart. An inclusive design restores the opportunity for independent choices. For example, dementia patients, who often lose crucial community ties, can experience supermarket socialising within the mini-mart.

The single-level basement carries back-of-house facilities, staff amenities, and parking - 14 bicycle spaces and 32 car spaces.

Our program began with demolition of the existing two-storey building and significant asbestos removal, followed by extensive earthworks, including basement retention and shotcrete application to basement walls. In building the new structure, we primarily utilised post-tensioned slabs from the ground level to the rooftop plant platform.