Off-site construction specialist and Portakabin subsidiary, Yorkon, has been awarded a £2.8m contract by Interserve Project Services to build new hospital facilities in Cardiff.

The three-storey scheme at the University Hospital of Llandough will provide an outpatients department decant facility which will be constructed and fitted out off site. This approach will reduce construction to just 31 weeks to meet the challenging programme for the project, and will minimise disruption to patient care and the adjacent ward buildings.

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The 2,000sqm building will accommodate consulting and examination rooms, a reception and waiting area on both the ground and first floors, with open plan and cellular offices for consultants, outpatient co-ordinators and nursing staff on the second floor.

Due for completion by the end of this year, the building will comprise 45 steel-framed modules manufactured in York and craned into position in just one week.

The project was awarded under Welsh Health Estates' Designed for Life: Building for Wales framework programme, which aims to deliver 21st Century healthcare facilities for the people of Wales.

The new decant facilities will enable construction of a £50m mental health assessment unit to begin at the hospital, which will be built by Interserve to replace an outdated Edwardian building and provide rapid access to care and support for older age patients.

(CD/BMcC)