Portakabin receives its largest ever order

PORTAKABIN Hire, the York-based supplier of interim building solutions, has been awarded a £13.5m contract – the largest in the division’s 52-year history.

The contract is to expand ward and theatre accommodation for orthopaedic services at Royal Stoke University Hospital.

A complex 4,000sqm, two-storey building will be constructed in less than four months to increase capacity at the hospital, to the benefit of patient care. 

Portakabin Hire provides accommodation for wards, recovery suites, dialysis units, diagnostics, out-patient departments and treatment centres.

Portakabin is part of the Shepherd Group, one of Yorkshire’s biggest family-owned firms.