Sectors
Healthcare & Life Sciences
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Scottish Enterprise Bio-Cube 1, Edinburgh
Engineered for healthcare and life sciences
From specialist wards and urgent care facilities to laboratories, research environments and supporting accommodation, Thurston designs, manufactures and delivers modular buildings around critical operational and technical requirements.
Manufacture can progress within our Yorkshire facilities alongside site preparation, helping reduce activity and disruption on live estates while providing greater oversight of quality, programme and delivery.
We work with healthcare providers, estates teams, contractors and life sciences organisations to define each requirement around its intended use,. This collaborative approach helps identify the appropriate permanent, portable or engineered solution and establish a practical route through design, manufacture, delivery and installation.
- 4,000m², 105-bed specialist ward facility delivered over 24 weeks
- 242m², initial ten-bed Tameside ward delivered in seven weeks
- 12,000 sq ft laboratory and office facility at Edinburgh BioQuarter
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Building for critical operations
Growing capacity while maintaining continuity
Healthcare and life sciences estates often need to remain operational while new capacity is being delivered. By completing more of the work offsite and planning logistics and installation around agreed access and operational constraints, we can help to reduce on-site activity, noise and disruption
Turning complex needs into buildable solutions
Healthcare and life sciences estates have complex patient and staff flows, accessibility, infection-prevention considerations, ventilation and specialist building services. We work closely with you to understand the specifics of your project, planning and controlling every detail to turn your requirement into a buildable solution.
Integrating with existing estates
New facilities may need to connect physically and operationally with existing buildings. We consider interfaces, walkways, circulation, accessibility, building services and external finishes so the new space can function effectively as part of the wider estate.
Maintaining programme visibility and coordination
Successful delivery depends on clear coordination across design development, approvals, manufacture, site readiness, logistics and installation. WrxFlo supports production tracking across our manufacturing operations, helping our teams monitor progress and provide clearer reporting throughout manufacture. Our project and site teams then coordinate the agreed interfaces and responsibilities through delivery and installation.
Solutions
Solutions shaped around critical environments
From rapidly deployed additional capacity to permanent clinical buildings and specialist technical facilities, we can identify the right delivery approach for your operational, programme and estate requirements.
Permanent Buildings
Purpose-designed wards, urgent care facilities, primary and community care buildings, laboratories and associated workspaces, manufactured offsite and integrated with the surrounding estate.
Portable Spaces
Flexible accommodation for temporary capacity, staff, changing, welfare and supporting requirements across healthcare and life sciences estates.
Engineered Solutions
Bespoke equipment housings, generator enclosures and modular data centres developed around the technical infrastructure supporting healthcare and life sciences estates. Each solution is designed around equipment interfaces, access, environmental conditions and operational requirements
Permanent Buildings
Purpose-designed wards, urgent care facilities, primary and community care buildings, laboratories and associated workspaces, manufactured offsite and integrated with the surrounding estate
Portable Spaces
Flexible accommodation for temporary capacity, staff, changing, welfare and supporting requirements across healthcare and life sciences estates.
Engineered Solutions
Bespoke equipment housings, generator enclosures and modular data centres developed around the technical infrastructure supporting healthcare and life sciences estates. Each solution is designed around equipment interfaces, access, environmental conditions and operational requirements
Applications
Our Permanent Buildings, Portable Spaces and Engineered Solutions support a range of healthcare and life sciences requirements. The appropriate solution depends on the intended use, required lifespan, technical specification, operating environment and site conditions.
Permanent Buildings
Long-term modular buildings developed around clinical, research and operational requirements, including specialist layouts, building services and integration with existing estates.
Typical uses:
- Specialist wards, ward extensions and urgent-care capacity
- Primary and community care, including GP practices
- Consultation, treatment and clinical-support facilities
- Laboratory-linked offices and collaboration spaces
- Specialist technical and research environments
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Office & Workplace
Laboratories
Portable Spaces
Relocatable spaces supporting temporary estate requirements, staff welfare, project delivery and changing operational needs.
Typical uses:
- Temporary and decant estate capacity
- Staff changing and welfare provision
- Project and estate-support accommodation
- Temporary offices, coordination spaces and storage
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Toilets
Changing Rooms
Site Offices
Canteens
Storage
Engineered Solutions
Bespoke and containerised spaces developed around specialist equipment, technical interfaces, operating conditions and project-specific performance requirements.
Typical uses:
- Bespoke or containerised laboratory environments
- Specialist equipment and infrastructure-support spaces
- Technical housings developed around defined equipment, services and operational requirements
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Laboratories
Containerised Data Centres
Quality, Safety & Assurance
Our independently assessed management systems and recognised industry standards provide customers with confidence in the quality, safety, environmental responsibility and control behind how we manufacture and deliver.
Experience across complex delivery routes
Healthcare and life sciences projects can bring together NHS trusts, estates teams, research organisations, consultants and specialist suppliers. Clear coordination is therefore needed across design responsibility, approvals, technical interfaces, programme, site logistics and operational requirements.
Thurston has experience working directly with customers, acting as principal contractor and delivering through turnkey and framework routes. Depending on the agreed scope, we can coordinate design development, manufacture, delivery, installation and estate integration as part of the wider project team.
Projects
Healthcare and Life Sciences projects
See how Thurston has delivered additional clinical capacity, specialist ward facilities and laboratory environments around demanding programmes, technical briefs and live estates
Discuss your healthcare or life sciences project with us
Talk to our team about your capacity requirements, technical brief, site constraints, programme and procurement route. We’ll help define the requirement and identify the right solution for your clinical, research or operational environment.
