HDR has appointed Conor Larkins and Zig Peshos as principals to steer its health and major projects capability.
Larkins has 18 years’ experience working across health, science, education and research projects at BVN, Larkins will head up HDR’s health sector and work closely with directors Alan Boswell, Jacqui Straesser, Joe Mihaljevic, Karen Curtis and Vanessa Zakrzewski.
“With HDR as the No.1 healthcare design practice in the U.S., I’m looking forward to leveraging the company’s global impact to expand our local footprint and deliver community-driven healthcare infrastructure across Australia’s eastern seaboard and beyond,” Larkins said.
Larkins has a background in precinct master planning, complex acute services buildings and medical research facilities, and will oversee the delivery of hospital projects, steer the stakeholder engagement process, and lead design and technical leadership.
Larkins has worked across many of Australia’s most significant health precincts, including Randwick Campus redevelopment stage one Prince of Wales Acute Services Building, the Lang Walker AO Medical Research Building for Western Sydney University, Nepean Hospital Redevelopment stage two, Royal North Shore Hospital and Northside Hospital in Canberra.
Peshos has 30 years of transdisciplinary experience across a range of building typologies and will work with large-scale, complex projects across HDR’s health, science, education, civic, transport and defence portfolio. He had led major projects such as Atlassian’s headquarters, Central Station Metro, the new Sydney Fish Market, Greenland Tower, Wynyard Walk, Two Melbourne Quarter, and Brisbane Square.
HDR was ranked number two in the World Architecture Survey of top 100 global architecture practices, and has been delivering healthcare projects in Australia for over 20 years. Key projects include Westmead Health Precinct Redevelopment, Dubbo Base Hospital Redevelopment, Western Cancer Centre Dubbo, Chris O’Brien Lifehouse and the Sunshine Coast University Hospital. Other active projects include Sydney Biomedical Accelerator, Rouse Hill Hospital, Victoria Community Hospitals Program, and Temora Hospital redevelopment and Finley Health Service redevelopment.
