Business View Magazine | December 2020

58 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE DECEMBER 2020 with LCS is discussed and outlined along the way so buyers can be as involved as they want throughout the entire process. In fact, Mawer has devised a formula that provides homebuyers with fixed price contracts, which is virtually unheard of in the custom-home industry. “Fixed price contracts give a lot of security to customers,” notes Mascott. “Part of making construction easier is actually breaking things down to a fixed and reliable price. That’s a major innovation across the industry.” The proprietary tool, which Mawer dubs “the pricing configurator,” has not only alleviated the stress of homebuilding for clients, but for suppliers and trade workers as well. He explains, “It auto-writes the contracts and auto-writes the specifications to generate a fixed price that we can present to the customer. But to do that we had to build up a really strong trade base. And the work in the background was to have price agreements with these guys, so when I give Key Partner with Linwood Homes since 1968 Supplying Innovative Solutions for Visionary Designs