Portakabin subsidiary, Yorkon – winner of the Off-site Manufacturing Specialist of the Year award for the past three years – has launched a new DVD to illustrate how off-site construction can be used in the healthcare sector.
The DVD features footage of the construction process, a number of finished hospital buildings and an interview with a nurse matron. It looks at two NHS treatment centres – the £12m Shepton Mallet NHS Treatment Centre, which was the first ITC to be built off-site and the most complex modular building project ever undertaken in the UK – and Yorkon’s second ITC, the St Mary’s NHS Treatment Centre in Portsmouth. The three-storey healthcare facility for Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is also included. Completed just nine months after start on site, this 4,950m2 ward and theatre building has enabled up to 10,000 additional inpatients to be cared for each year.
Modular construction offers a number of clear advantages over site-based building methods – speed of response, cost control, less disruption, improved safety, earlier occupation and better quality. The Yorkon approach is up to 50% faster, allows greater design flexibility, offers enhanced thermal efficiency and minimises risk for the client. More than 96% of Yorkon projects have been completed on time and on budget over the past five years – well exceeding construction industry averages and giving greater peace of mind.
