Peacock Mental Health Centre

Project scope

COVA delivered all engineering services and BIM documentation for the $10m AUD reconstruction of the secure mental health facility in North Hobart, following a deliberately lit fire in 2016.

The heritage restoration of Ruardean, the home of W.D. Peacock, reinstated the Peacock Centre as a significant community asset: re-roofing and general repair, removal of insensitive later additions, a new sympathetic addition, and restoration of the original greenhouse and surrounding heritage gardens.

The redevelopment includes 12 short-stay bedrooms, communal visitor spaces, personal reflection spaces, treatment and counselling rooms, a small Safe Haven cafe with kitchen, and multipurpose spaces for staff and users, with new and restored landscaping open to the broader community.

With the development partly inside a heritage building, the building services took a distinctly different approach across the two zones, with careful attention to anti-ligature requirements in unsupervised patient areas. Key elements include heat recovery ventilation throughout, hydronic floor heating to patient areas, hydronic radiators in the heritage zones and a 100% electric energy source.

Following this project, the same team was engaged to deliver the $20m AUD St Johns Park Southern Mental Health Facility, with more extensive patient accommodation, allied health facilities and support services.

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