$500,000 donation to boost Health and Sport
Sunshine Coast development and construction company, the Evans Harch Group, today donated $500,000 to the University of the Sunshine Coast's Building Excellence Campaign.
Company directors Trevor Harch and the sons of Pat Evans, Matthew and Sean, presented the donation – among the largest ever to be received by the University – to USC Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Thomas AM.
The donation will help support USC’s new $13.8 million Health and Sport Centre, which is being built with private and government funding.
Professor Thomas said the centre would serve as the headquarters for USC’s Health and Sport Precinct and provide world-class facilities for teaching and research.
“This gift indicates a deep and genuine commitment from the Evans Harch Group to the future of our region,” he said.
“This centre is where our future health care professionals will be educated and trained.”
Evans Harch has been a key figure in the University of the Sunshine Coast’s history, as the company has built all but one of the buildings on campus.
“We are intimately familiar with the new Health and Sport Centre,” Trevor Harch said.
“It is obvious to us that the facility will make a crucial impact on the well-being of our community. We feel privileged to help make it happen.”
The Health and Sport Centre is scheduled to be completed soon and be in use by next semester.
It will provide state-of-the-art testing and research laboratories and purpose-built teaching spaces for biomedical science, paramedic science, occupational therapy, nursing, sport science, nutrition and dietetics, psychology and public health.
It also will include a gymnasium and a public cafe.
— Terry Walsh