Offsite construction specialist, Merit, has been appointed to deliver a £3.6m same-day emergency care facility at Bedford Hospital.

The project will utilise advanced offsite construction methods and is due for completion in July.

Works to manufacture the offsite components will start in Merit’s Cramlington-based smart factory later this month.

The new unit will incorporate consultation rooms, clinical management rooms, examination rooms, assessment areas, and other supporting services.

To deliver the facility, Merit will utilise its new UltraPOD SFS variant – an expandable full building solution that can be customised to create various types of buildings for different purposes.

This variant harnesses Merit’s latest roll former, panel line production system, which the company says ‘enhances project affordability and accessibility, while significantly reducing the construction timeline’.

Merit said: “The V6 platform comes as standard, rated BREEAM ‘Excellent’ as a minimum, EPC-A, and with energy consumption reportedly 69% lower than current CIBSE hospital benchmarks.”