Yorkon lands major hospital contract

OFFSITE construction specialist Yorkon has landed its biggest building project to date.

The £17.9m contract for principal contractor Kier Construction will see Yorkon   construct a new women and children’s centre at North Middlesex University Hospital.

The project is being built off site at the Yorkon production centre in York, which aims to reduce disruption to patient care and the build programme to ensure the new facilities will be operational before winter.

The building will provide a larger consultant-led delivery unit with additional high dependency beds, two new obstetrics theatres, a neonatal unit, triage centre, women’s outpatient department, a midwife-led birthing unit, a postnatal ward, and a transitional care unit to support neonatal care.  

Simon Ambler, director at Yorkon said, “We are delighted to be working on our third project with Kier – and our second major healthcare scheme with their company. This is our largest ever contract and its complexities demonstrate just what is now achievable with an advanced off-site building system.

“The approach will significantly reduce the programme time and any disruption during construction, to the benefit of patient care – and will result in a high quality healthcare facility.”

Yorkon is part of the Portakabin Group.