The Story of the Rum Hospital in Australia

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The construction industry is filled with standard workflows and practices that lead to efficient businesses for those who know it well. These standards of construction were forged over years of experience and corporate development, but what did the industry look like just 200 years ago? One interesting historical case study on this topic brings us back to Australia in the early 1800s...

Australia wasn't always the bustling tourist attraction that it is in modern times, it used to be little more than a camp for convicts with little built-up infrastructure. In the 18th century, Australia was a place for the government in Great Britain to send convicts over on ships to start and establish a colony. Little aide was given to the "settlers" and thus they were left in the barren terrain with few supplies and no leadership.

That is until, in 1810, a British Army officer by the name of Major General Lachlan Macquarie arrived in the port of Sydney as the new Governor of New South Wales. General Macquarie decided to bring some order to the Australian settlement.

He drew up a street plan for Sydney and designed many of the colony's most famous buildings that stand on one of the main streets in the center today. One of Macquarie's most infamous buildings was that of the Sydney hospital.

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