With waiting lists remaining at historically high levels, healthcare providers need to urgently build capacity at pace. Simon Squirrell, national sales director at Vanguard Healthcare Solutions, explains how volumetric construction with high pre-manufactured value is transforming healthcare estates.
Healthcare providers across the UK are facing an unprecedented challenge: expanding capacity at speed while maintaining safe, high-quality environments for patients and staff. Traditional construction methods — often slow, disruptive, and complex — are increasingly unable to meet the demands placed on today's health systems.
As someone who works alongside NHS Trusts and Health Boards every day, I see the urgent need for estate solutions that are faster, more predictable, and deliver long-term term value. Volumetric modular construction — specifically, high pre-manufactured value (PMV) projects — answers that call.
Volumetric construction, or modular construction, is the process of manufacturing modules in an offsite factory, bringing them to site, and then joining them together to construct a building.
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