Off-site construction specialist, Yorkon, has launched a new on-line video gallery to help improve the understanding of modular buildings among architects, contractors, specifiers and occupiers.
This latest in a series of web resources, which can be viewed on www.yorkon.info/gallery, also aims to increase awareness of the bespoke design solutions, quality and potential of off-site construction that can now be delivered in sectors as diverse as health, education, nuclear, transport, chemical, commercial, and retail.
Videos in the gallery include:
- How off-site construction can benefit major food retailers
- How a modular building is assembled on site
- Why schools should consider an off-site approach for new teaching accommodation
- Off-site solutions for healthcare providers
- How a modular building is manufactured off site.
In the past two years, Yorkon has completed an unprecedented 99 per cent of its contracts both on programme and on budget. This performance is in stark contrast to new industry figures released by Constructing Excellence which have showed that just 63 per cent of projects delivered in the past year were on budget, and only 45 per cent were completed on programme (source: UK Industry Performance Report 2011, Constructing Excellence/Glenigan).
Current Yorkon projects include a highly complex £9m laboratory building at Dounreay in Scotland – the first Active Analysis Laboratory for the nuclear industry to be built using modular construction; a new purpose-built satellite haemodialysis unit for Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust; and a number of petrol filling station stores located across the UK for Tesco.
The advantages of off-site construction include:
- Programme times reduced by up to 50 per cent for earlier handover and occupation
- Safer, quieter and cleaner construction – reducing disruption to existing operations and the local community
- The development of constrained sites which may not have the space required for traditional site-based building methods
- The Yorkon off-site building system exceeds Building Regulations Part L (2010) for air permeability by up to 70 per cent with no adaptation to the standard system
- A high level of design flexibility for the creation of bespoke buildings that meet specific project requirements for both performance and aesthetics
- Material wastage reduced by up to 90 per cent (source: WRAP)
- Improved build quality and reduced future maintenance
- Flexible buildings, which can be expanded without decanting and have 12m clear internal spans for future reconfiguration.
Yorkon is part of the Portakabin Group.
www.yorkon.info
