Pod maker lands £3.7m Galliford order

Galliford Try has placed an order for nearly 1,000 plastic bathroom pods with Offsite Solutions.The £3.7m contract is the largest bathroom pod contract the Offsite Solutions has taken this year.The pods are for the £105m Monk Bridge build-to-rent residential scheme in Leeds now under construction by Galliford Try.Developed by Highline Investments and designed by Carey Jones Chapman Tolcher, Monk Bridge will provide 665 flats for rent over five buildings from 12- to 22-storeys high. The scheme includes the restoration of the adjacent former railway arches for retail, leisure and restaurant uses, with the top of an old viaduct transformed into a new public park.Offsite Solutions is manufacturing and fitting out 700 bathroom pods, and 288 ensuite shower pods for the studios, one, two and three-bedroom apartments. They being made from glass reinforced plastic (GRP), which Offsite Solutions says produces ‘significantly lower capital and operating costs’, but with porcelain-tiled feature walls and splashbacks.All the pods for Monk Bridge will be supplied floorless, which allows the units to be installed directly onto the floor slab, making it easier to achieve continuous level floors throughout and minimise floor build-up for each storey.