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Speaker 1: So here come the beds. This is Health one hundred

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Speaker 1: and forty of them across a rapid build for wards

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Speaker 1: in middlemore Way out of Wellington, Nelson Hawks Bay. Each

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Speaker 1: Moduli unit will include twenty eight beds built off site,

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Speaker 1: set for completion by the second half of next year.

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Speaker 1: Blake Lepper is the head of Infrastructure Delivery at Health

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Speaker 1: New Zealand and is with us. Blake Morning, Morning, Mike.

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Speaker 1: How long has this been?

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Speaker 2: Brilliant? Actually, in many ways not this long, but with

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Speaker 2: everything in Health, it has a long story. Our team

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Speaker 2: and Hawk's Bay had been thinking creatively about solutions up

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Speaker 2: there to deal with some of their challenges, and they

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Speaker 2: put up a business case last year and when we

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Speaker 2: saw that, we really saw that there was an opportunity

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Speaker 2: to think nationally about this. If we could run one process,

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Speaker 2: find one supplier, then we're really hopeful that we could

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Speaker 2: make this kind of step change in many places around

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Speaker 2: the tree. And that's what was announced yesterday.

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Speaker 1: So as one hundred and forty based on demand or dollars.

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Speaker 2: The one hundred and forty is based on you know,

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Speaker 2: wards coming certain sizes, so it's an increment of that

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Speaker 2: kind of standard. Twenty eight to thirty beds. The budget

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Speaker 2: has allowed us to get an extra one of these

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Speaker 2: modular units than what we were expecting. So it's about

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Speaker 2: us buying these tools that are incredibly flexible and sending

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Speaker 2: them to wherever the highest needs are for that additional

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Speaker 2: space around the country.

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Speaker 1: Does it look a bit pre fab Is it like

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Speaker 1: in the corner of the car park? No?

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Speaker 2: No, that's the amazing thing about how far this offsite

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Speaker 2: modular construction has really come in the last couple of years.

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Speaker 2: We put out our specifications that describe a ward that

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Speaker 2: is exactly the same as what you'd see in a

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Speaker 2: brand new hospital around the country, and the market's turned

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Speaker 2: around and gone, absolutely, we can deliver that, we can

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Speaker 2: deliver it cheaply, we can deliver it quickly, and we

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Speaker 2: can deliver it to wherever you need it around the country.

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Speaker 1: And so that's the building aspect, not that does it

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Speaker 1: function in every way shape as you would expect it

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Speaker 1: to as a health facility internally?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Absolutely. I mean this doesn't replace the need for

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Speaker 2: long term redevelopments of these sites. Obviously, we want to

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Speaker 2: get really compact campuses and why we need to develop

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Speaker 2: over time kind of the bigger buildings that make up

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Speaker 2: a hospital. But right now, the ability to plug these

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Speaker 2: buildings into these campuses and leave that kind of acute

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Speaker 2: pressure that they are facing for space, these will be

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Speaker 2: fantastic spaces for clinicians and patients.

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Speaker 1: Are they permanent in that sense once you plug them

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Speaker 1: and they're there, they are there for good? Or are

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Speaker 1: these sort of part time?

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Speaker 2: No, They've definitely been designed as a part time solution

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Speaker 2: while we develop that longer term redevelopment proposals for these areas.

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Speaker 2: So in time you know they will they will be

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Speaker 2: taking up real estate that will be used on that

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Speaker 2: campus for more more permanent things. But for right now,

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Speaker 2: they're there, they're available, and they can stay there as

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Speaker 2: long as is needed to provide that space.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate time. Blake Lepper, who's the head of Infrastructure Delivery

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Speaker 1: at Health New Zealand.

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