Set up at the start of this year, the modular specialist now plans to invest £2.5m in further expansion after a boom in orders.

Connex specialises in the manufacture of high-end modular bathrooms for hotels, student accommodation, healthcare facilities and flats.

Part of a family group of successful businesses including Doherty Developments, Re-Gen Waste, Re-Gen Robotics and Re-Eng, Connex currently employs 25 staff with a further 19 subcontractors and operates out of a 25,000ft² factory.

Now an additional 60,000ft² facility has been bought for expansion.

Brendan Doherty, managing director of Connex, said: “Off-site manufacturing is one of the fastest growing modern methods of building in the UK.

“We’ve just completed our first large project with the Elliot Group worth over £700k, for the delivery of 149-bathroom pods to Bicester in Oxford.

“Our second project delivered 24 bathroom pods to Ogilvie Construction in Edinburgh and we are currently manufacturing a further 116 pods for the Elliot Group, for Cambridge and Hammersmith, to be delivered before Christmas.

He added: “Our order book is growing rapidly, we are aiming to achieve substantial growth within the next three to five years and our ambition is to be the premier bathroom pod manufacturer in the UK and Ireland.”