A HIGHBRIDGE bathroom pod manufacturer has secured a contract to supply pods for a new hospital.

Offsite Solutions will be supplying 134 bathroom pods for the new East Lothian Community Hospital, which will cost £69 million to build.

The new units, which will accommodate a patient and a carer, will be supplied without floors to allow for continuous level flooring throughout the wards and will avoid the need for thresholds to make the bathrooms fully accessible.

Morrison Construction, part of Galliford Try plc, is principal contractor for the 22,000sqm, purpose-built community hospital in Haddington, appointed by Hub South East Scotland on behalf of NHS Lothian.

Paul Godwin, design manager at Morrison Construction, said: “Having the bathrooms arrive on site as a finished product gives us the benefit of a significant programme saving and this use of offsite construction means we need less labour on site, which is safer and more efficient.”

The scheme has a complex phased construction to allow the continuation of clinical services in the existing hospital buildings on the site. As a result, the bathroom pods will be installed in batches throughout 2018.

When completed, the new facility will increase inpatient beds by around 60 per cent to enhance the quality of care for the people of East Lothian.

David Small, partnership director at East Lothian Health and Social Care, said: “I am impressed with the way work on site is forging ahead. People in East Lothian will benefit from having this state-of-the art facility, which will help us to deliver more services much closer to home.”

Offsite Solutions offers a wide range of bathroom pod solutions for the healthcare sector. This includes easy-to-clean and low maintenance GRP pods for hospital environments; steel-framed pods for tiled finishes for care homes and supported living schemes; and options for floorless units to meet specific project requirements.

For further information offsitesolutions.com, call 01278 780807 or email info@offsitesolutions.com.