The $90M Melbourne Processing Centre provides the Victorian and Tasmanian chapter of the Australian Red Cross Blood Service with a new state of the art headquarters. The facility is housed within the shell of an existing 1920s warehouse, originally constructed as a Morris Minor assembly factory in West Melbourne. The existing brick warehouse building with varying building heights from one to four stories, required significant work to bring it up to current standards, with the additional overlay of an Importance Level 4 rating as required by the business to operate in the event of an emergency. There is 17,500m2 of accommodation comprised of blood processing and distribution areas, blood testing, with the support of research laboratories, warehousing, office/administration and staff amenities.
Australian Red Cross Blood Service Melbourne Processing Centre













Project Status: Built
Completed: 2012
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Batman Street, West Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Architecture Firm: DesignInc
- Project Director: Rohan Wilson
- Design Team: Rebecca Alavi, Yasushi Honda, Philip Weatherlake, Vi Vuong, Natalie Yong, Gus Kroyherr, Lucy Brylski, John Hoogwerf, Lachlan McEwan, Wilson Heng, Evelyn Lian, Dominique Loilie, Daragh Doyle
- Project Manager: Gallagher Jeffs
- Project Architect: Adrian Doohan
- Architect: Amanda Warmuth
- Senior Interior Designer: Sally Edelsten
- Structural Engineers: Bonacci & Robert Bird Group
- Services Engineer: Lehr Consultants International
- Landscape Architecture: Outlines
- Quantity Surveyor: Rider Levitt Bucknall
- Building Surveyor: Gardner Group
- Fire Engineering: Raw Fire
- Mgac: DDA & Accessibility Consultant
- Photography: Mark Wilson, Dianna Snape