PROJECT:   Repatriation Hospital

Architect:   Silver Thomas Hanley

Repatriation Hospital  Loading dock Test kitchen External view Sterilisation service

The new kitchen at the Austin Hospital in West Heidelberg is a state of the art production kitchen, which will be providing one third of Melbourne's hospitals with meals. Capable of producing over two million meals a day, the new facility is comprised of a large production kitchen which employs the latest technology and features including a fully ventilated ceiling with a series of adjoining cool rooms and storage rooms, a test kitchen for the preparation of test meals and smaller quantity meals, a unique trolley wash system which to date is the only one in Australia, and a dual loading dock for incoming and outgoing product.

A series of freezers and cool rooms within the facility utilise a new Glycol cooling system, which allows fresh food to be tumble cooled and snap frozen to guarantee freshness until dispatch to the sub-kitchens within the individual hospitals. The trolley wash and sanitising service facilities use an e-water system which runs a mild current through the water to clean and sterilise equipment.

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