Mr. Sean Downey:

There are definitely strategic partnerships between the larger developers and certain timber-frame manufacturing companies. That is without doubt. Some have optimised that so that across a few thousand units, they might have only three house types. They might look completely different from the outside. Then there are a number of small, almost cottage industry size timber-frame manufacturing companies across the country. The Senator’s question is why are they not growing. The answer might be that they have enough demand for the scale of factory that they have. It could be that there is no incentive for them to grow. Perhaps a number of local builders around them are thinking that if timber frame is meeting 50% of the requirements in the area, they are happy enough to absorb the blocklayer and bricklayer for their units because they have availability. Maybe there is no tipping point yet where they have to move.