Yorkon Completes Off-site Construction of New NHS Treatment Centre - On Time and On Budget
Award-winning off-site construction specialist and Portakabin subsidiary, Yorkon, has completed a new NHS day treatment centre at Devizes in Wiltshire on time and on budget.
The Devizes NHS Treatment Centre for UK Specialist Hospitals (UKSH), is now providing NHS patients in the South West with increased choice and reduced waiting times.
Designed by architects TP Bennett, the building was constructed off site in York and craned into position in just a week, around 80 per cent complete. This approach ensured delivery of the scheme on programme, on budget, in a shorter timescale, with improved quality and less disruption to local residents.
Commenting on the project, Fiona Calnan, Chief Executive of UKSH, said, “Yorkon has completed another high quality building for us. The Devizes treatment centre has been designed specifically to deliver day surgery procedures for NHS patients. Our partnership with Yorkon has worked well and we are pleased with how the project was managed and the quality of the new centre.”
David Johnson, Director and General Manager of Yorkon, said, “This contract follows Yorkon’s successful completion four years ago of our first project for UKSH – an NHS treatment centre in Shepton Mallet. That scheme, which we manufactured and fitted out in only 10 months, is now regarded as one of the UK’s top performing independent sector treatment centres.”
Yorkon has also recently handed over another NHS treatment centre for UKSH at Emerson’s Green near Bristol – the UK’s largest ever modular healthcare project.
The Devizes NHS Treatment Centre is delivering day surgical treatment. Facilities include two operating theatres, outpatient and diagnostic services. Externally, the single-storey building is finished in cedar cladding to contrast with the white modules, the pastel green render to the entrance and the full height glazed reception.
Over the past 12 months, Yorkon has completed 99 per cent of its projects on time and on budget – significantly exceeding statistics for UK construction industry performance.
Editor’s Notes
1. Devizes NHS Treatment Centre:
Facts and figures:
- A single-storey day treatment centre
- 30 steel-framed modules up to 14m long
- Module cranage was completed in one week
- 975sqm in size
Facilities include:
- 2 day surgery theatres
- Endoscopy suite
- Procedure and consulting rooms
- Administration centre
- Reception and waiting area
2. Project Team:
Client: UKSH
Concept architects: TP Bennett
Design/build contractor: Yorkon
Modular manufacturer: Yorkon
Project managers: Atkins Global
Cost consultants: Corderoys
M&E consultants: Engineering Design Partnership
3. The advantages of off-site construction for healthcare projects include:
- Programme times reduced by up to 50 per cent, allowing earlier completion with a positive impact on patient care
- Reduced disruption to patients, staff and the local community during construction
- Material wastage reduced by up to 90 per cent
- Up to 90 per cent fewer vehicle movements to site
- Safer, quieter and cleaner
- Improved quality and reduced future maintenance
- A high level of design flexibility internally and externally
- Buildings can be expanded without decanting
- Improved thermal efficiency for lower running costs and reduced carbon emissions
- Greater cost control.
