Yorkshire Modular Firm Wins £12m Hospital Contract

East Yorkshire-based offsite modular construction firm Premier Modular has won a £21 million contract to construct a massive King’s College London Hospital extension from its Brandesburton base, in between Beverly and Hornsea in the East Riding of Yorkshire. The contract represents the firms biggest win to date in healthcare projects in its 65-year history.

The modular construction specialist has been awarded the £21 million project, which will see a new 3,450 square metres new outpatient services building for King’s College Hospital in London, and sees Premier Modular as the main contractor, leading a delivery team that will also include fellow Yorkshire firm P+HS Architects, reports Building.co.uk.

The new four-storey extension will provide 48 bespoke consultation rooms and eight procedure rooms for a range of different services, and allow the trust to free up space in the main hospital buildings to reduce waiting times and improve the patient experience for urgent care services.

The awarding of the lucrative contract follows Premier Modular’s delivery of a £10 million contract for the offsite construction of a 62-bed priority assessment unit at St Peter’s Hospital in Chertsey in Surrey.

Dan Allison, the divisional director at Premier Modular, said that the use of an offsite solution for the project will ensure faster delivery and earlier occupation, which will significantly benefit patient care.

“Offsite construction is safer, quieter and cleaner than in-situ construction, which will radically reduce disruption during the build phase to staff and patients, and the surrounding residential community,” he said.

Modular and offsite construction will also be highly beneficial for restricted hospital sites, such as King’s College Hospital, he added, as it reduced the amount of heavy plant machinery, construction materials, and Cecile movements on-site and the surrounding residential community.

The site is flanked by three access roads, meaning that the potential impact from traditional build methods is clear.

Allison added that the firm is working to a short programme so that the state-of-the-art facilities can be put into operation as soon as possible in 2022, which will benefit both patients, and help with the rising demand for hospital services.

A full construction package for this project is being provided, including design, development, demolition of an existing building on the site, groundworks, offsite

Stephen Hatcher, an associate at Leeds-based P+HS Architects, said that the building had been designed to minimise the impact on the environment over its lifespan, and has targeted a BREEAM excellent rating.

“[The extension] will have areas of green roof to encourage biodiversity, a highly insulated building fabric to reduce heat loss and running costs, energy-efficient ventilation and electric air source heat pump system for heating, and solar panels for electricity generation,” he said.

Premier has been on a rapid growth trajectory in recent years, with a buy-out bringing it back into British hands last February when London-based investment house Cabot Square swooped after years as part of the South African Waco International Group.

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