Olympic gold for north-east company

HUNTLY-BASED bathroom-pod manufacturer RB Farquhar has struck Olympic gold.

The firm has been awarded a £3million contract for the new £2billion Olympic Village being constructed in east London for the 2012 Olympic Games.

The contract, awarded by UK construction group John Sisk and Son, is to produce 640 prefabricated bathroom and shower-room pods for what the organisers claim is going to be the most spacious and best designed accommodation complex in Olympic history.

The village comprises 62 blocks of residential apartments on 11 plots to house more than 17,000 athletes and officials at the games.

In addition to the residential facilities, the village developments also include shops, restaurants, medical, media and leisure facilities and large areas of open space, based in design on the traditional British courtyard.

Forbes Shand, chairman of RB Farquhar Holdings, said: “Within weeks of the contract award, we have already started manufacture of the bathroom pods at our assembly plant in Chomutov, in the Czech Republic, and are on course for first delivery to site next month.

“High-volume construction projects like the Olympic Village which are working to absolute deadlines are ideal subjects for factory-assembled bathroom pods, and I am optimistic that we will be able to secure further orders for the remaining plots in the village.”