Demand for unit homes in Australia is concentrated on the east coast of the country, with some 70% accounted for in the three states of New South Wales, Victoria, and Queensland, where the three most populous cities, Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane, are located. Based in Newcastle, New South Wales, in the vicinity of Sydney, McDonald Jones Homes is ranked No. 6 in 2016 for unit-home starts in Australia and ranked No. 1 in New South Wales,* the market that holds the greatest promise in Australia fuelled by a continuously growing population.

Australian unit homes are generally wood-framed one-storey homes or brick homes. The mainstay products of McDonald Jones Homes are homes with a steel-frame structure, including those with autoclaved aerated concrete (AAC) exterior walls. Asahi Kasei Homes believes this presents an outstanding opportunity to leverage the know-how it has accumulated in its own order-built Hebel Haus™ unit-homes operation. Especially against a backdrop of cost pressures due to a shortage of construction workers, it is believed to be possible to reduce construction costs while raising construction capacity by combining the marketing and technical strengths of McDonald Jones Homes, Australia›s leader in the field of steel-frame unit-homes, with the know-how of Asahi Kasei Homes in standardization and systemization.

Based on a belief in “people being at the center of our business,” McDonald Jones Homes operates under the principle of being the most trusted home builder with the highest standards, which is aligned with the Asahi Kasei Homes vision of realizing long-life homes that provide ongoing customer satisfaction. Through its capital alliance with McDonald Jones Homes, Asahi Kasei Homes looks forward to achieving sustainable growth and expansion of its operations in the Homes sector.