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    McAvoy healthcare design appointment: modular NHS facilities lens for project teams

    November 25, 2025|

    Reviewed by Tom Sullivan

    McAvoy healthcare design appointment: modular NHS facilities lens for project teams

    First reported on The Construction Index

    30 Second Briefing

    Offsite specialist McAvoy has appointed architect Matthew Usher as healthcare design manager to lead the design of modular clinical facilities for both rental and sale. Usher, formerly a project architect at Corstorphine & Wright with a healthcare-focused portfolio, will front health-related design from early engagement through to delivery, targeting faster programmes and adaptable layouts for NHS clients. The move follows McAvoy securing a place on the NHS Commercial Solutions Framework (Lot 2: modular & prefabricated building services) and reappointment to the NHS SBS modular building framework.

    Technical Brief

    • Offsite manufacture at McAvoy’s facilities allows parallel groundworks and module fabrication, compressing overall programme durations.
    • Rental and sale models enable phased capex, aligning modular deployment with constrained NHS capital budgets.
    • Dedicated healthcare design management supports early-stage optioneering on clinical adjacencies, flows and M&E plant zoning.
    • Strengthened design team is expected to refine repeatable standardised module types for theatres, wards and diagnostics.

    Our Take

    Within the 46 Infrastructure stories in our database, UK healthcare work involving NHS Commercial Solutions and NHS Shared Business Services tends to favour modular providers like McAvoy for rapid capacity additions and decant space, which can materially shorten programme durations compared with traditional builds.

    Framework Lot 2 appointments for modular and prefabricated building services often act as a gateway to repeat work across multiple NHS trusts, so this positioning in the United Kingdom can smooth McAvoy’s pipeline and reduce bid costs per project over the framework term.

    Across the 107 tag-matched ‘Projects’ and ‘Contract Award’ pieces, design-led modular healthcare schemes in the UK are increasingly being used to manage backlog maintenance and estate rationalisation, suggesting McAvoy’s strengthened design offer could align it with higher-value, complex refurb and expansion packages rather than just temporary units.

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    Prepared by collating external sources, AI-assisted tools, and Geomechanics.io’s proprietary mining database, then reviewed for technical accuracy & edited by our geotechnical team.

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