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WOODBUILD WALES QUALITY IN OFFSITE TIMBER CONSTRUCTION NEIL SUTHERLAND MAKAR - MACIVER HOUSE, TOMATIN 2017
WoodBUILD Wales
Quality in Offsite Timber Construction

Neil Sutherland MAKAR

MacIver House, Tomatin - 2017
WOODBUILD WALES QUALITY IN OFFSITE TIMBER CONSTRUCTION NEIL SUTHERLAND MAKAR - MACIVER HOUSE, TOMATIN 2017
MAKAR
 •     140 home deliveries
 •     25+ years
 •     40 people
 •     15 - 20 home deliveries / pa
 •     £3.5M turnover

4 Homes at Fodderty, Dingwall - 2014
WOODBUILD WALES QUALITY IN OFFSITE TIMBER CONSTRUCTION NEIL SUTHERLAND MAKAR - MACIVER HOUSE, TOMATIN 2017
Why does your organisation exist?

People don’t buy what you do,
they buy Why you do it – Simon Sinek

At MAKAR we believe…..
WOODBUILD WALES QUALITY IN OFFSITE TIMBER CONSTRUCTION NEIL SUTHERLAND MAKAR - MACIVER HOUSE, TOMATIN 2017
Lean Enterprises

The Toyota Production System
•    A Japanese thing…….
•    A manufacturing thing………..
•    Adoption of a few technical tactics……

A local example
Wide range of sectors – healthcare, service companies, etc
Why not for housing?
WOODBUILD WALES QUALITY IN OFFSITE TIMBER CONSTRUCTION NEIL SUTHERLAND MAKAR - MACIVER HOUSE, TOMATIN 2017
Off-site delivered Housing:
- Sweden                   60%
- Netherlands              25%
- Japan                    20%
- UK, USA etc, less than   5%
WOODBUILD WALES QUALITY IN OFFSITE TIMBER CONSTRUCTION NEIL SUTHERLAND MAKAR - MACIVER HOUSE, TOMATIN 2017
• Offsite – Symbolic of Progress?
• Disruptive Cultural Shift?
• Change of Attitudes and Behaviours?
WOODBUILD WALES QUALITY IN OFFSITE TIMBER CONSTRUCTION NEIL SUTHERLAND MAKAR - MACIVER HOUSE, TOMATIN 2017
• Does not Guarantee Improvement
• Represents a Large Overhead & Large
  Pipeline requirement
• Focus on Plant instead of People
WOODBUILD WALES QUALITY IN OFFSITE TIMBER CONSTRUCTION NEIL SUTHERLAND MAKAR - MACIVER HOUSE, TOMATIN 2017
Lean – Customer Driven
What does the Customer Value

- Comfort, Health & Wellbeing
- Quality Certainties:
   Design
   Workmanship
   Programme
   Cost
WOODBUILD WALES QUALITY IN OFFSITE TIMBER CONSTRUCTION NEIL SUTHERLAND MAKAR - MACIVER HOUSE, TOMATIN 2017
MAKAR Workshop - 2012
WOODBUILD WALES QUALITY IN OFFSITE TIMBER CONSTRUCTION NEIL SUTHERLAND MAKAR - MACIVER HOUSE, TOMATIN 2017
Piper House, Rafford, Forres - 2015
MAKAR Lean Enterprise
A Strategic Business Approach
1.   Long term Philosophy
2.   The right Process will Produce the right Results
3.   Add Value to the organisation by developing our People & Partners
4.   Continuously solving root Problems, driving organisational learning

From The 4 P’s – The Toyota Way, Jeffrey Liker
MAKAR’S LEAN                                                                              Standardise

JOURNEY     5S
                                           Roll out in
                                                                             2017         Process
                                                                                          Standardise process
                                           workshop                                       and management
                                           , yard and                                     systems
Lean                                       offices
Lean is being used to help MAKAR
structure and optimise its activities to                                                  2018
achieve its goals and work towards its
mission…                                    Use Process                    5S On-              Optimise
Mission                                     Build process
                                                                           site
                                            discipline, management                              Process
Why we are here…
                                                                           Roll out on-      Optimise (more
                                            and quality tools
Goals                                                                      site           value, less waste).
A tangible series of objectives
which need to be achieved on
route to our mission…

Values                                     2019
How we conduct ourselves…                                                                        Pull and Flow
Methods                                                                                          Develop pull and
Things we do…                                                                                    flow in the process.

                                                                                     2022
                                            Perfection
                                            Iterate, engage with others.
LEAN PRINCIPLES                                    Value
                                                   understanding what the customer

AND CONCEPTS
                                                   wants as a product and a
                                                   service…

                                                   Value Stream
                                                   process required to deliver what
                                                   the customer wants…
  Value
                                                   Flow
                     Perfection                    regulating work flow through the
                                                   process, balance resource
                                                   requirements with supply…

                Customer
                                                   Pull
                - the person you are
                                                   each step is an input into the
     Customer   providing a service to             next, focus on delivering on time
                (internal or external)…            and quality when required…
                - respect the customer, know the
                customer, put yourself in their
                shoes…                             Perfection
                                                   relentless focus on improving
                                                   the process for the benefit of
                                                   all…
VALUES AND MISSION IDEAS
What is a “value”?                                What is a “mission”?
- A specific mode of conduct - preferable to an   - Guides actions, spells out its overall goal and
opposite or contrary mode of conduct;             path, guides decision-making;
- The way we [should] do things around here.      - What a company wants to do for the world;

                                                   Ideas as proposed by the MAKAR
                                                   team in January 2017
What is a Value Stream?
• Includes all activities involved in the design,
  production & delivery of a product to the customer

      design               production           delivery

                         Time

       Value Adding Activity            Waste
Value vs.Waste
                 Typical Processes
                       Focus of traditional
                       improvement programmes
      Value            • Work Longer
      Added            • Work Harder
                       • Add People
                       • Add Equipment
     Waste –
     Eliminate
     all forms         Focus of Lean
                       Improvement Projects
                       • Eliminate Waste
                       • Eliminate Defects
Planning and Warrant
                 NEIL                            NEIL                                               COLIN                                         COLIN                                                                          CAT
    Standard Planning Application                Planning                                                                                          Warrant
                                                                                  Standard Building Warrant Document Pack (inc.                                                                                        Design Handover Pack
    Document Pack (inc. third party               Design                                                                                           Design
                                                                                               third party reports)
              reports)                            Review                                                                                           Review
                                                  Record                                                                                           Record
  Indicative     Business Plan
                                                  Populate                     Full warrant         SAP         Panel Design       CDM Draft
   layout of     – if required                                                                                                                      Populate
                                                 traffic light                  drawings -                                        Construction
    rooms,                                       document –                                                                                        traffic light
service voids,                                                                   Location                                          Phase Plan
                                                 green stage                                                                                      document –
 thresholds                                                                     Plan, Site
                                                                                                                                                  orange stage
                                                                                   Plan,
                                                                               Foundation,
 Indicative                                                                     GA Plans,
                 Business Plan    Full Set of
                                                                                 Sections,          SAP         Joinery Details     Standard
Stove, SVP,      – if required    Planning
                                                                                Elevations                                         details and
  Ex.lights,                      Drawings
                                                                                                                                     panels
MVHR ducts,
                                                                                                                                   catalogue
  extracts                                                                                                                                                                                                              Warrant
                                                                                 Full set of                                                                                                                            Drawings
                                                                                 engineers                                                                                                                                Pack
Specification      Budget           Other                                       drawings –        U-Values      Electrical Key    Makar Design
Window and       Detailed Cost    Supporting                                    foundation                       and Layout           and
Roof Colours                     Drawings – as                                 and structure
                                                                                                                                  Construction
                                   required
                                                                                                                                  Specification
                                                                                                                                   Document                                                                            Finishes info
                                                                                 Internal
                                                                                                                                                                                                                           – FFL,
                                                                                 finishes,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                         window
 Preliminary                                                                    windows.,
                   Budget          External                                                       U-Values        Plumbing           Project                                                                           colour, roof
Specification                                                                     doors,
                 Detailed Cost      Design                                                                         Layout            specific                                                                         finish, service
 of Fixtures                                                                    flooring,
                                 Statement –                                                                                         details                                                                          void, specific
 and Fittings                                                                    fixtures,
                                  Sustain. &                                                                                                                                                                          details (party
                                                                                  fittings
                                    Access                                                                                                                                                                               walls etc)

Draft Panel         Service                        Design                        Detailed           Trade         Electrical,       Detailed      Design Review                                                         Service          Engineers
  Design          Application                      Review                      Layout of all     Literature     plumbing and         Design          Record                                                            Hatches /         Drawings
                 and Payment                       Record                       Rooms and                       MVHR layout         Contract                                                                           Envelope            Pack
                     Form                                                        Services                       – agreed with       Costing                                                                           Penetrations
                                                                               Routes Fixed                       3rd Parties                                                                                          Drawings

   Design                           Collate       Planning        Planning        Detailed        Confirm          Finalise       Costing based     Warrant        Planning     Building        Building   Building     Collate           Collate
 Refinement                        Planning        Design        Application    Design Site,       Design         Internal              on          Design         Consent      Warrant         Warrant    Warrant    Warrant Pack       Engineers
   Process                       Documentati       Review                       Sections and    Performance       Services        Specification     Review                     Application     Comments     Issued                         Pack
                                      on                                         Floorplan,                      Layout and       and Warrant                                                  Responded
                                                                               Specifications                     Routing            Design                                                        To

                                                                               Windows and      Decorations       Engineers         Budget                                                                 Warrant
                                                                                  Doors          Selection        Drawings        Commitment
                                                                                Selection          Fixed
                                                                                  Fixed

  Any final                                        In time                                                                                                                     Application                                 All this
tweaks to the                                    customers                        Stoves /      Internal door    Location of                                                   can be used                              information
 design, not                                      invited to                      Heating         Selection      Wall, Floor,                                                 to incentivise                           exists, this is
   major                                            attend                       Selection          Fixed           Roof                                                        customer                                  just the
  redesign                                                                         Fixed                        Penetrations                                                     decision                              collation into
                                                                                                                    Fixed                                                         making                                   formal
                                                                                                                                                                                                                         document
                                                                                Bathroom                                                                                                                                    packs
                                                                                                 Flooring
                                                                                Selection        Selection
                                                                                  Fixed            Fixed
Complex
                                                         Process

                                          Site
Projects Earned Created

                                                 Conc     Planni                      House          Workin
          Value Value

                                         Appra                     Buildin    House           New
                                                  ept       ng       g                  to             g
                                          isal                                 Kit            Home
                                                 Desig    Permis   Warra              W&WT           Home
                                         Repor
                                                   n       sion      nt                                        Based on
                                            t
                          Free    Free   X.X%    X.X%     X.X%     X.X%       X.X%    X.X%    X.X%   X.X%        costs
                                                                                                              associated
                                                                                                                  with
                                                                                                              delivering
                          15-20   10     5-10     5         5        4         3        3       3      15        To be
                                                                                                                 stage
                                                                                                               confirmed
Mission and Values                                                             Mission
The following values, purpose, mission and methods make MAKAR unique.          MAKAR improves people’s lives through better
They define the work we do and the way we do it.                               buildings and places. MAKAR does this by
                                                                               designing and delivering high quality housing in a
                                                                               truly sustainable fashion.
                                                 Neil Sutherland, Director

Core Values                                                                    Methods
Great Buildings. We believe great buildings and places improve people’s        The following methods are employed by MAKAR to deliver our mission. They
lives.                                                                         are specific, methodical and consistent.

Customer Care. Our customers are our focus and everything we do aims to        Customer Certainty. We will provide for our customers; design,
serve them.                                                                    workmanship, program and cost certainty.

Integrated Processes. Our ambitious design is strengthened by integrated       Financially Transparent. Our financial methods will be transparent and will
processes.                                                                     offer value for money for our customers.

Environmental Health. The quality and health of our regional and global        Ecological Specification. We will always create healthy living environments
environment is a product of our decisions.                                     supporting a healthy global environment.

Skills & Training. We believe in the future of meaningful work. This results   Materials. We will use locally sourced renewable materials, predominantly
from creativity of intention, quality in attitude and skillful execution.      timber.

Responsibility. We and no-one else is responsible for the value we provide     Regional Supply Chain. We will network and support regional suppliers for
to our customers and the wider community.                                      the economic benefit of the wider community.

Ethics. We are engaged in doing what is good and what is right and our         Energy & Carbon Efficient. We adopt the highest standards as our basic
work reflects this.                                                            standard.

Continuous Improvement. We aim to continuously improve our methods,            Skills & Training. We are a nurturing organisation supporting the growth of all
service and products for our customers and partners.                           individuals in our team.

Profitability. We aim to earn a reasonable financial return in order to both   Research & Development. R&D is intrinsic to what we do day by day.
survive and have the capacity to grow and develop in a financially             Simplicity. We aim to provide simple solutions for customers in a seemingly
sustainable way.                                                               complex area of activity.

Pride. We are proud of our work.                                               Accessible. Our work is not exclusive and can be available to all.
MAKAR Code of Conduct
- Respect others
- Tell the truth
- Be fair
- Try new ideas
- Ask why
- Keep your promises
- Do your share
Quality
The 4 P’s: Philosophy, Process, People & Partners, Problems

Building Houses & Building People

- An Attitude, Way of Thinking, Doing & Behaving
- Slow down – Right First Time
- Standardise for Continuous Improvement
- Remove Defects – Rework Destroys Moral
- Long Term Partnerships & Customer Relationships
Timber Product Development
In Europe, the development and use of engineered
timber products relates closely to the development
of complementary Methods of Off-site Construction
MAKAR R&D Serviced Modules
Circular Economy Business Support – ERDF
Scottish Wood-fibre Insulation
MAKAR n-SIP panels to Passivhaus performance standard

• Construction Scotland Innovation Centre – Advanced
  Timber Products Innovation Challenge funded
• Bangor, Strathclyde & Edinburgh Napier Universities
Energy Positive – generate more than used
Carbon Efficient – net zero in delivery and use
Culcairn, Evanton,
160 house & mixed-use village extension
Culcairn, Evanton, Easter Ross

• 160 house + Mixed-use village extension
• Mix of tenures and house types
• Extra-care & Co Housing
• Shared Community facilities – allotments, amenity
• Car tamed, Public mobility supported
• Green Infrastructure and Woodland integrated
• Sustainably constructed – Energy positive Carbon
  negative
• Regionally distinctive & improving over time
    www.makar.co.uk
    neil@makar.co.uk
    @makarneil
    @MAKARhomes
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