Offsite Solutions picked for build-to-rent pods

The £3m contract is Offsite Solutions’ third for a Moda Living neighbourhood.

Holland Park is on the site of the former Strathclyde Police HQ and will provide 433 studios and one, two and three-bedroom apartments in four blocks of up to 19 storeys, arranged around a landscaped courtyard. The scheme is designed by Haus Collective and Ryder Architecture.

Mark Howe, project director at Moda Living, said, “Our experience of working with Offsite Solutions on other schemes has been very positive, with consistently-high quality standards, the efficiency of offsite manufacture, and exceptional programme management.”

James Stephens, managing director of Offsite Solutions, said, “We were engaged by Robertson and Moda at the early design stages of this project to develop the use of offsite construction for the shower rooms, ensuites and bathrooms. This collaboration has really optimised the benefits of offsite manufacturing and gives the client and main contractor greater certainty of cost and programme, as well as simplified procurement and improved quality.

“We have manufactured around 1,200 bathroom pods for Moda to date – Holland Park follows our successful delivery of pods for the award-winning Moda, Angel Gardens in Manchester and Moda, The Lexington in Liverpool.”

Matt Haggerty, architectural director at Ryder Architecture, said: “The use of bathroom pods will bring the process-driven efficiencies of offsite manufacturing and enhanced quality but with no compromise on design.”

Offsite Solutions has developed the steel-framed bathroom, shower and ensuite pods to Moda’s specification, which includes contemporary light grey porcelain tiling throughout, square wall-mounted wash hand basins, wall-hung toilets, brushed steel accessories, heated towel rails and recessed, colour-matched cabinets. The shower rooms have rainfall showers, and the bathrooms are pre-fitted with both overhead and hand-held showers, and a pivot shower screen.

The pods are all supplied floorless. This avoids the need for a recess in the floor slab to minimise floor build-up for each storey whilst achieving continuous level floors.

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