The Trust decided to move its existing orthopaedic services to a new On-Demand^® facility, which neighbours its Orthopaedic Centre, a permanent building that Darwin Group also delivered and installed earlier this year. The Trust opted for an On-Demand solution as it wanted the flexibility and speed of a hireable facility, instead of investing in another permanent construction leading to future estate issues.

The completed building took 16 working weeks to deliver. Eight weeks were spent at a Darwin Group site in York, where the building was assembled and first and second fix works were undertaken.

A further eight-week onsite period followed, during which the modules were delivered, installed, and made fully watertight at James Paget Hospital. Following building installation, final onsite finishes were applied, including oak-finished doors and frames, floor-to-ceiling fire-rated windows, floor finishes with acoustic underlay, trunking, lighting, and suspended ceiling tiles.

The building was installed on a reduced-level dig with concrete pad foundations. Further groundworks included adapting and linking services and drainage within the existing hospital infrastructure and providing hard and soft landscaping alongside access ramps.