calvary hospital Adelaide - SA

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The Calvary Hospital development in Adelaide was conceived as a landmark private healthcare facility—designed to set a new national benchmark for clinical excellence, patient experience, and infrastructure delivery in the private health sector. The client’s ambition extended well beyond traditional project KPIs: it was a bold vision to deliver a facility that reflected the future of healthcare in Australia.

The project was shaped by a highly complex set of user group requirements, rigorous compliance demands, and a client deeply committed to achieving operational perfection.

Trevor Hall played a pivotal role in establishing the contractor for success, leading the project setup and governance strategy, and embedding the structures needed to respond effectively to the project’s layered complexity. Trevor’s focus was to ensure the delivery team could operate with confidence, clarity, and alignment with Calvary’s exacting expectations.

“Delivering private healthcare at this level isn’t about ticking boxes—it’s about building trust, listening closely, and empowering the team to deliver something exceptional.”
— Trevor Hall

His leadership helped build strong foundations for both delivery and client relationships, positioning the contractor as a trusted partner capable of navigating stakeholder sensitivity, evolving design priorities, and the operational needs of a live health environment.

•  Co-ordinating inputs from multiple clinical and operational user groups
• Meeting uncompromising quality and compliance standards from the client
• Maintaining flexibility during design development while protecting program certainty
• Managing reputational risk and delivery expectations in a politically aware environment
• Establishing credibility in a highly competitive private healthcare delivery market

• Successfully delivered a contractor-led framework that enabled responsive, best-practice engagement with Calvary’s executive and user teams
• Strengthened the contractor’s reputation in the health sector through professional,      consistent performance
• Supported the delivery of a facility that redefined expectations for private hospital infrastructure in Australia
• Enabled the contractor to leverage the Calvary Adelaide project as a Tier 1 healthcare reference for future opportunities

Calvary Hospital in Adelaide is a standout example of how structured leadership, stakeholder empathy, and delivery rigour can combine to deliver premium outcomes in the health sector. Trevor’s work in shaping the contractor’s approach continues to inform HCE Advisory’s capabilities in complex social infrastructure delivery, where trust, care, and execution all matter equally.

The Royal Hobart Hospital Redevelopment was one of the most significant and complex health infrastructure projects ever undertaken in Tasmania. As the state’s largest public hospital, and its most critical acute care facility, the project required the demolition, expansion, and complete transformation of the hospital’s core services, all while remaining fully operational.

The redevelopment was not just a technical challenge, it unfolded over a long period marked by changing political leadership, evolving stakeholder expectations, and intense public visibility.

Trevor Hall held full P&L accountability for the delivery of the redevelopment, leading the commercial, operational, and stakeholder alignment strategy across the life of the project.

Trevor’s leadership was instrumental in navigating the hospital’s live operational environment, managing user group engagement, and establishing a project governance rhythm that could respond to political and clinical complexity with confidence.

“This wasn’t just a building project, it was about maintaining trust, continuity, and control in the middle of a working hospital, under the spotlight of government, clinicians, and the public.”
— Trevor Hall

• Demolishing and rebuilding core health infrastructure within Tasmania’s busiest and most complex public hospital
• Delivering major construction works within a live, high, risk clinical environment
• Coordinating design development with extensive and diverse user group consultation
• Managing evolving expectations from multiple levels of political leadership over the life of the project
• Ensuring patient safety, staff wellbeing, and clinical continuity at all times

• Successfully delivered major construction phases with no disruption to hospital operations
• Maintained delivery continuity and trust throughout political transitions
• Established a user engagement model that respected the complexity of clinical operations
• Delivered a state, of, the, art health facility that now serves as a flagship for health infrastructure in regional Australia

The Royal Hobart Hospital Redevelopment exemplifies the kind of multi, dimensional leadership required for health infrastructure delivery in politically, socially, and operationally complex environments. Trevor’s ability to align stakeholders, control risk, and maintain performance in a live public setting reflects HCE Advisory’s unique experience in critical social infrastructure projects.

This legacy continues to shape how HCE Advisory supports government and health clients nationwide—bringing clarity, structure, and trust to environments where there is no room for error.

Before construction could commence on the New Royal Adelaide Hospital (NRAH), South Australia’s most significant health infrastructure project, a major challenge had to be overcome: remediating the former Adelaide rail yards. The site, steeped in industrial use, was heavily contaminated with legacy materials including oils, hydrocarbons, asbestos, and other hazardous substances.

Turning this toxic footprint into a safe, sustainable location for the community’s flagship public hospital required more than compliance, it required conviction, innovation, and commercial balance.

Trevor Hall led the business responsible for this complex site remediation, bringing together all parties—client, regulators, environmental consultants, community stakeholders, and the delivery team, under a unified strategy focused on safe transformation, commercial discipline, and environmental integrity.

As the true extent of contamination was uncovered, far exceeding initial client assumptions, Trevor’s leadership ensured a structured, transparent, and adaptive delivery model was maintained. This enabled innovation in materials handling, supply chain scaling, and site treatment, all without compromising on community trust or environmental responsibility.

“When you inherit the sins of the past, you don’t just clean them up, you help define what the future looks like.”
— Trevor Hall

• Significant unknowns in volume, type, and spread of contamination
• Community sensitivity due to proximity of urban and health precincts
• Logistics pressure on an already stretched remediation and waste disposal supply chain
• Strict environmental controls and multi, agency oversight
• Complex commercial impact due to evolving project scope

• Delivered full site remediation, clearing the way for one of Australia’s most important hospital builds
• Identified and executed commercially optimised solutions to manage unanticipated volumes of contaminated material
• Maintained a zero, harm record to people and the environment throughout the remediation
• Rebuilt community confidence in the site’s safety and future role as a healthcare hub
• Achieved a financially sustainable outcome for the contractor, aligned with the effort and risk expended

This project reinforced HCE Advisory’s belief that remediation is not just technical, it’s social, commercial, and environmental. Trevor’s leadership brought balance to competing priorities and demonstrated that delivering legacy infrastructure starts with reclaiming legacy land responsibly.

Today, HCE Advisory supports clients facing similarly complex urban regeneration and contaminated land challenges, with the lived experience to guide them through both risk and opportunity.

During the delivery of the $10 billion West Gate Tunnel Project, a critical issue emerged when changes to environmental guidelines by the Victorian EPA redefined the acceptable management and disposal of spoil containing PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances). This unexpected regulatory shift placed the project’s critical path under threat, delaying key tunnelling activities and escalating public concern.

The situation became one of the most politically and publicly scrutinised infrastructure challenges in Victoria’s history, requiring a swift yet deeply considered response that would protect community trust, ensure regulatory compliance, and maintain project momentum.

Trevor Hall played an integral leadership role on behalf of the contractor during this period of intense uncertainty. With deep experience navigating high-stakes infrastructure negotiations, Trevor was a key contributor to the strategic, operational, and stakeholder response that ultimately led to a viable, world-standard solution.

Trevor’s ability to engage collaboratively with government, regulatory authorities, project partners, and the broader community helped reframe the issue from a project standstill into a pathway for resolution—anchored in safety, science, and shared responsibility.

•  Sudden change to EPA standards impacting spoil classification and disposal
• Delays to tunnelling progress affecting the project’s critical path
• High public and media scrutiny with significant reputational risk
• Complex multi-party negotiations involving Government, Client, Contractor, and Regulators
• Requirement for an internationally benchmarked solution that balanced environmental, political, and cost considerations

•  Development and agreement of a PFAS spoil management strategy aligned to updated environmental standards
• Stabilisation of project delivery following months of uncertainty
• Restoration of public and political confidence in project governance
• Recognition of contractor contribution to a solution prioritising community outcomes
• Reinforcement of collaborative delivery principles under Trevor’s leadership

This PFAS issue reinforced HCE Advisory’s unique capability to navigate regulatory disruption and deliver outcomes in complex, high-pressure environments. Trevor’s leadership in shaping the contractor’s strategic and technical response demonstrated the power of calm, informed influence when it matters most.

It is precisely this capability—combining infrastructure insight, environmental risk navigation, and stakeholder alignment—that underpins our offering to clients facing disruptive challenges on critical projects.