Engineering Infrastructure Replacement Program

The $386.75 million Engineering Infrastructure Replacement Program provides Victorian Government funding to upgrade or replace prioritised highest critical risk capital engineering infrastructure for acute services in public hospitals.

Examples include:

• chillers
• fire detection systems
• alarm systems
• replacement water mains.

Eligible Health Services will be notified when submissions open.

For assistance regarding the funding program please contact MERPandEIRP.vhba@vida.vic.gov.au.

More information

Refer to the 2025-26 Engineering Infrastructure and Medical Equipment Replacement Program – Guidelines in the downloads section below for the following information:

• list of in-scope replacement assets
• ineligible or excluded items
• conditions of funding.

It is vital that our hospitals have access to the latest developments in engineering infrastructure and technology. This program helps improve efficiency and reliability of our public hospitals, and reduce risk to patients, healthcare worker safety and service availability.

The Engineering Infrastructure Replacement Program aims to:

• support health services to manage risk and to maintain patient safety, healthcare worker safety, service availability / business continuity and avert unacceptable clinical service interruptions or failures
• enable qualifying at-risk critical engineering infrastructure due or overdue for replacement to be replaced in a timely and prioritised way, consistent with statewide strategic and service plans, service delivery needs and asset management plans
• sustain at-risk assets that provide essential capacity for delivering responsive and appropriate acute clinical services across Victorian public hospitals
• provide a safety net to minimise whole-of-system risks
• devolve a level of capital funding to health services’ management, making prioritising the replacement of at-risk assets more flexible, reducing administrative burden, and helping to improve asset management
• help health services to implement effective asset management that aligns with existing government frameworks and policies
• develop and implement multi-year essential engineering infrastructure asset management plans for health services consistent with their role in the statewide context and appropriate to the asset management requirements of the health service concerned.

Projects funded through the Victorian Government’s Engineering Infrastructure Replacement Program are administered by the Victorian Health Building Authority. These projects are delivered by the public funded health service provider.