Our Mission & Core Values

Health & Safety

The activities carried out by mac on your project are by their nature fast-paced; it’s important to work fast, yet maintain high quality. Health and Safety on our sites is culturally ingrained – it’s endemic. This is a key objective of our Management Board that has been achieved through continual systemic fortification of safety attitudes, and by investing in creative ways to achieve buy-in from operatives. When safety is second nature, there is rarely a need to enforce sanctions for breaches.

The H&S system is implemented and reinforced as follows:

• Daily white board meetings
• Project specific site safety inspections/audits
• Weekly project health and safety meetings
• Incident and near misses communicated company wide
• Project specific construction stage health and safety plans – compiled by senior management and reviewed/approved at director level
• Training – experienced site supervisors, site managers and project managers are trained to MSIC standard with retraining readily available on request
• Workshops for site teams – actively engaging our teams with responsibility and ownership

Quality

Absolute Completion™ is our unique process for the continual layering of quality standards. It is a methodology that has been developed by our teams, tailored to your unique deliverables while being the basis of our value proposition.

We identify and record the client expectations and drivers for the project, select the design team members that are tasked with measuring and arbitrating quality standards and establish the final date for accepting design changes.

Our site team then follow the mac protocol to hit milestones as follows:

• Samson evaluation of sub-trades prior to awarding packages
• Presentation of trades’ work mock ups to establish the standard
• Presentation of suppliers’ product samples/mock-ups to establish the standard
• Record and agree standards with design team in the context of programme constraints, client drivers and design freeze
• Agree shop drawings with design team
• Arrange workshop/factory visits to monitor/maintain quality standards throughout production process
• Ensure standards of finishes are being met through ISO 9001 Work Package Inspections
• Follow approved ISO9001 audit schedule and implement recommended findings
• Snags and defects uncovered by Work Package Inspections to be recorded and cleared as work progresses
• AT PC stage, a weekly status report of outstanding works or snags to be issued
• Any outstanding works to be included in project handover manual and a date/procedure by which to clear them agreed with building occupier

Mechanical and Electrical Know How

The functionality of your building is founded on the quality of the building services incorporated into the fabric of your building. Our team of 13 in-house highly experienced M&E professionals have the technical knowledge of end user requirements, industry knowledge and self procure / management capabilities for cost and programme optimization. We also offer self delivery within the UK. We ensure a collaborative approach to building services with consultants.

BIM

BIM provides a Project Information Model enabling a virtual design and construction methodology. It is comprised of geometric model components embedded with information to enable the coordination, scheduling and analysis of the building. mac uses Revit and BIM to advance the design model to handover status through the following integrated delivery processes:

• Advanced Design Development – interactive visualization of the finished building before commencement on site
• Coordination and Clash Avoidance – collaboration methods which address any errors long before they have any bearing on costs or schedule
• Documentation – EIR response, BIM Execution Plans and further documentation required by PAS1192-2.
• Common Data Environment – in compliance with BS1192:2007
• Asset Information Model – developed to the required level of detail /definition
• As-Built Status – point cloud and survey verification
• Level of Information – integration of COBie parameters and outputs
• Facilities Management – cost reductions through BIM based O+M
• Future Proofing of Facilities – maintainable assets of the future will send live performance data back to the Asset Information Model
•  Lessons Learned – contribute to a leaner integrated project delivery cycle for future projects, using the latest cloud collaboration technologies

Sustainability

YOU’RE BUILDING A LEGACY. Our clients want to build spaces with minimal environmental footprint that are healthy throughout their life cycles. We know that green building is an iterative process of continual improvement through design, planning, construction and operations practices. We drive this process.

External benchmarks of a construction company’s sustainability activities are:

• US Green Building Council’s Leadership in Environmental Energy and Design.
• Building Research Establishment’s BREEAM certification.

Our commitment to sustainability:

• mac paid for 19 staff to get LEED qualified
• 15% of Ireland’s LEED professionals are mac employees
• 4 out of 8 LEED platinum projects in Ireland are mac projects
• Recertified in ISO 14001:2015 Environmental for 2017
• Colleen Rooney is our Environmental Advisor.
• Winner of 2019 fit out award for Excellence in Sustainability.

Social Responsibility

Our sustainable building policy works in tandem with our philosophy on giving back to communities. We believe that when companies grow in stature, it’s important to leverage that influence to benefit someone other than themselves. Tiglin is a charity dedicated to providing front-line support to people trapped in a cycle of homelessness and addiction. mac has helped reinvigorate Tiglin’s residential centres by providing stripped-out materials like furniture, fittings and IT equipment. Through this we are ensuring a ‘closed loop’ cycle for our materials and pursuing the Triple Bottom Line: People, Planet and Profit.