YORK-based Portakabin Group has secured a £10 million contract for the off-site construction of two new buildings for the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton.

The contract, which uses the company's Yorkon off-site solution, includes construction of the Portakabin Group’s first six-storey building in the health sector which will be manufactured off site at its production centre in Huntington, York.

The two modular buildings are due for completion in autumn 2015 and will provide purpose-designed accommodation for clinical services.

The six-storey building will house services such as nuclear medicine, physiotherapy and rheumatology outpatients, offices, a radio pharmacy, and a rehabilitation gymnasium.

The off-site approach will allow the constrained courtyard site to be utilised and the Yorkon modules will be craned into position over a plant room building.

The steel-framed modules will arrive on site around 35 per cent fitted out, and the first building will be handed over less than six months after the units arrive on site.

Commenting on the project, Simon Ambler, director of the Portakabin Group, said: "Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust is an existing Portakabin Group client, who we are delighted to be working with again.

"This is a highly complex contract which will involve constructing two Yorkon buildings with detailed technical specifications, on an extremely constrained and busy hospital site, in a short time frame and simultaneously.

“The clinical building is also our first six-storey scheme in the healthcare sector which demonstrates the advanced performance capabilities of our Yorkon off-site solutions.”

The Portakabin Group has a track record in the healthcare sector, having completed a variety of bespoke building projects using Yorkon off-site solutions, including ward extensions, self-contained theatre blocks, emergency care units, haemodialysis centres, offices, community clinics, and complete hospitals, with all the speed and quality advantages of off-site construction.