 Off-site construction specialist and Portakabin subsidiary, Yorkon, has won a £1.5m healthcare building contract at Frenchay Hospital in Bristol.
The project was awarded by contractors Laing O’Rourke under the NHS ProCure 21 Framework and will provide a purpose-designed modular building to accommodate two cardiac catheterisation laboratories fitted out with highly specialised x-ray technology for the diagnosis and treatment of heart conditions, and a patient recovery suite.
The scheme forms part of Laing O’Rourke’s £32m construction contract and role as Principal Supply Chain Partner to North Bristol NHS Trust. The new cardiac facility will be manufactured off site in York using Yorkon’s award-winning modular building system.
This approach reduces programme times by up to 50 per cent, ensures delivery on time and on budget, minimises disruption to the running of the hospital, and is a highly sustainable method of construction.
Commenting on the contract award, Douglas Moore, project manager at Laing O’Rourke, said: 'The Yorkon modular system is bringing two major advantages to this project – speed and flexibility. Completion of the building by the end of 2007 is a challenging programme but is critical to meeting the Trust’s waiting list targets for 2008/9. The use of off-site construction will enable us to achieve this.
'The modular method has also given us greater flexibility in internal space planning, allowing the Trust to make their complex purchasing decisions for the highly specialised cardiac equipment at a later stage than with traditional construction.”
He added, 'The project is a collaborative approach which will provide the very best facilities within the Trust’s budget and to their required timescale.'
Due for completion in December this year, the single-storey facility will be linked to an existing building and will comprise 20 steel-framed modules, which will be craned into position in just three days in the autumn. Yorkon, who is part of Laing O’Rourke’s ProCure 21 Framework supply chain, will also undertake refurbishment works in the adjacent building as well as on-site fitting out.
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