The Portakabin Group showcased its Yorkon off-site solutions at the Healthcare Estates event this year.
The impressive Yorkon stand at Healthcare Estates demonstrated the latest advancements in off-site technology and some of the ground-breaking projects which have changed the face of the construction industry.
Its team of off-site specialists were on hand to advise healthcare providers, architects and contractors about how to increase capacity on constrained hospital sites – with shorter programme times, less disruption and greater certainty of completion on time and on budget.
Meeting any Design Brief or Site with Greater Efficiency
Yorkon off-site solutions offer the unrivalled flexibility to meet almost any design brief, hospital site and building footprint with greater efficiency. The approach reduces programme times by up to 50 per cent, and delivers buildings with improved thermal efficiency for lower running costs and much greater assurance of completion on time and on budget.
Modular buildings can be rapidly installed in enclosed courtyards, on the roofs of existing buildings and on steel platforms to help healthcare providers increase capacity to meet the increasing demand for services.
Buildings to Complement Existing Facilities or to Create Architectural Statements
Facilities constructed off site by Portakabin can have 12m clear internal spans up to six storeys high and the architectural variety to complement existing buildings or to create landmark developments for prominent sites.
These award-winning off-site solutions use engineering, rather than construction tolerances, delivering greater accuracy and build quality. An innovative factory-fitted concrete floor system also provides the response factors required for sensitive surgical procedures, as well as for ward and office applications to avoid over-specification.
A Wide Range of Healthcare Buildings Constructed Off Site
Yorkon off-site solutions have been extensively used for hospital extensions, self-contained theatre blocks, emergency care units, haemodialysis centres, offices, community clinics, and complete hospitals, delivering all the advantages of modular construction. Facilities can be standalone buildings or seamless extensions to existing units.
Services from Portakabin include design, planning, groundworks, module manufacture and installation, fitting out, landscaping, testing and commissioning – a full and efficient turn-key service for both healthcare clients and contractors.
The Benefits of Modular Construction
The benefits of Yorkon building solutions from the Portakabin Group include:
- Greater cost control and certainty of delivery on time and on budget
- Programme times reduced by around 50 per cent for earlier occupation
- Much less disruption to patient care during construction, which is critical when working on fully operational hospital sites
- The facility to fit almost any building footprint, including those designed for site-based construction – reducing design time and resources
- Less impact on the environment with reductions in waste by up to 90 per cent and zero waste in manufacture of the buildings
- Safer, quieter and cleaner construction
- Improved quality and reduced future maintenance
- Ease of expansion without decanting
- Enhanced thermal efficiency for improved building performance.
