Production Strategy Director – Development And Sales
CurrentJoining L&Q in the autumn of 2017 to lead the company’s transformation in housing delivery; to progress from traditional construction methods, to fully imbedded Modern Methods of Construction (MMC). Heading up an ambitious 10-year road map to cement L&Q as one of the industry leaders in MMC and Zero Carbon homes. Starting with the formation and growth of a new Production Strategy team to deliver the plan, structured under 2 main sub headings - Production Development and Production Delivery. Covering the following outputs. 1. Innovation – Creating an Industry first to housing design for manufacture and assembly (DfMA), by way of methodology and approach.2. Procurement and Materials Frameworks – Covering our development pipeline, and to support our new ways of building. Utilising and the implementation of new industry procurement, contractual approaches, and relationships. 3. Sustainability – Implementing the roadmap to get ahead of net zero carbon targets and key objectives across all new build homes around construction waste and circular material economy. Future proofing housing to reduce long-term asset costs and address fuel poverty for residents. 4. Data and Digital workstreams – Creating improved management and capture of data to better maintain and construct our homes and improve quality for the lifetime of those homes. 5. Specification – Creating an industry first specification management focus to better align the construction process with the approaches and benefits of the manufacturing process. Tasked with an initial £100mil budget with interim milestones on the 10-year programme, the works are being delivered ahead of programme, at significantly less cost, with an estimated added value of circa £200-£250mil.To support and add to this work, I lead in securing funding for research and development which includes, the UKRI funded, AIMCH project and CoLab App, and acted as the company lead for the G.L.A. Sponsored PRISM MMC design App.