Off-site construction specialist Yorkon has completed the first Independent Sector Treatment Centre to be built offsite. The £12 million Shepton Mallet NHS Treatment Centre was manufactured and fitted out by the company in less than 10 months and is believed to be the most complex modular building project ever undertaken in the UK. The client’s designer and project manager was Atkins.
Unique treatment centre completed
Constructed, managed and staffed by the independent healthcare sector, the new facility has been commissioned to treat NHS patients. The centre will carry out more than 11,000 operations per year, for procedures such as cataract surgery, hip and knee replacement and general surgery.
Facilities at Shepton Mallet include 34 in-patient beds, four operating theatres, an endoscopy suite, 18 day-case beds, an outpatient’s department, medical imaging department equipped with an MRI scanner, ultrasound and general X-ray, physiotherapy suite, café and teleconferencing for on-site training.
The two-storey building was manufactured off-site at the 60-acre production centre in York and craned into position as steel-framed modules up to 14 m long. It features roof glazing above the waiting area, western red cedar cladding panels between windows and timber brise soleil to offer shading from the sun. Yorkon was also responsible for demolition works, landscaping and fitting out.
