Jane Carthey is an Architect and Project Manager with over 20 years of experience in private architectural practice. For many years she has specialised in the design and delivery of health projects with a particular interest in 'front end' processes.
Jane has extensive experience in a wide range of health, aged care, educational and other institutional projects. Her experience covers the whole procurement process but has tended to focus on the front end of projects including health service planning/asset translations, project briefing, project evaluation, project feasibility, health facility design, health facility and site masterplanning, Project Direction and Management. She has worked in Australia and New Zealand, and overseas for AusAid and the World Bank undertaking health facility development consultancies in developing countries such as East Timor, Nauru and Niue.
Since mid 2002, she has worked at the University of NSW, Sydney, Australia initially as the Project Manager of the NSW Health Facility Guidelines and Post Occupancy Evaluation projects within the Faculty of Medicine. Jane has contributed to both undergraduate design teaching at UNSW Built Environment and to postgraduate programs in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine. She is a frequent speaker at Health Facility Conferences, and the author of numerous articles on health design issues published in local healthcare magazines and journals.
She is currently the Director of the Centre for Health Assets Australasia (CHAA) within Built Environment. The result of a competitive tender, this Research Centre is funded by the Health Capital Asset Managers' Consortium of Australia and New Zealand. It undertakes research projects of interest to all the State/Territory Health Departments of Australia and New Zealand.
Its major project is the Australasian Health Facility Guidelines project. The Centre's main area of research is health capital asset creation and facility management. Other areas of collaborative research are pursued in health capital asset design, asset management, benchmarking and procurement processes.
Jane is currently a Chief Investigator on an ARC Linkage project looking at adapting health infrastructure to climate change extreme weather events. Partners in this research are NSW Health, SA Health, Qld Health and the NZ Ministry of Health.
Research
Chief Investigator:
ARC Discovery DP0879002, 2008-2010 (led by UTS): Examining organisational complexity and clinical risk to improve hospital patients' safety.
ARC Linkage LP0884116, 2008-2011: Assessing the adaptive capacity of hospital facilities to cope with climate related extreme weather events: A risk management approach
Australasian Health Facility Guidelines and associated research projects - 2005-2010
Recent Publications
Papers & Book Chapters
Carthey, JF., Chandra, V. & Loosemore, M., 2008, 'Assessing the Adaptive Capacity of Hospital Facilities to Cope with Climate - Related Extreme Weather Events: A Risk Management Approach', in Association of Researchers in Construction Management (ARCOM) Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference, eds Prof Andrew Dainty, Cardiff, UK, Reading, UK, pp. 742 - 757
Carthey, JF., Chandra, V. & Loosemore, M., 2008, 'Adapting NSW Health Facilities to Climate Change-A risk Management Approach', in CIB International Conference on Building Education & Research - Building Resilience Conference Proceedings, eds Haigh, R., Amaratunga, D. and Keraminiyage, K., Kandalama, Sri Lanka, Salford, UK, pp. 742 - 757
Carthey, JF., 2008, 'Re-interpreting the hospital corridor:�wasted space� or essential for quality multidisciplinary clinical care', in Health Environments Research & Design Journal (HERD), vol 2(Fall, No.1), pp. 17 - 29.
Carthey, JF. 'Healthcare Designers and Information Use'. In: ConnectED 2007 International Conference on Design Education. Sydney, Australia, ConnectED, UNSW, pp. 1 - 5 2007.
Carthey, JF. & Chandra, V. 'The Impact of Climate Change on Healthcare Facility Infrastructure: A Preliminary Investigation of Mitigation & Adaptation Strategies'. In: Future Health Facilites: Sustainability, Design, Financing & Research Conference Abstracts & Papers. Sydney, FBE, UNSW, pp. 1 - 13 2007.
Becker, F. & Carthey, JF. 'Evidence-Based Healthcare Facility Design: Key Issues in a Collaborative Process'. In: W092: Interdisciplinarity in Built Environment Procurement Conference Proceedings. Newcastle, Australia, CIBER: Centre for Interdisciplinary Built Environment Research, University of Newcastle, pp. 1 - 12 2007.
Carthey, JF., 2006, 'Post Occupancy Evaluation: Development of a Standardised Methodology for Australian Health Projects', in The International journal of Construction Management, vol 6(1), pp. 63 - 80.
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