Adoption of Pre-Fabrication in Construction to Achieve Sustainability Goals: An Empirical Study

Bhattacharjee, S.; Pishdad-Bozorgi, Pardis; Ram, G. Challa

doi:10.1061/9780784479827.106

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“…The production of building components at a factory has a good effect on occupational safety as onsite hours and heavy lifting are minimised. Moreover, it reduces the environmental impact associated with the transportation of materials to construction sites (Bhattacharjee et al, 2016). However, it requires heavy investments to set up such facilities.…”

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“…IBS can be classified into six main categories which are; pre-cast concrete system, steel framing system, timber framing system, block work system, formwork system, and innovative system (CIDB, 2016;Din et al, 2012). There are many advantages of using IBS reported by researchers worldwide (Alinaitwe et al, 2006;Bhattacharjee et al, 2016;Blismas et al, 2006;Gibb & Isack, 2003;Goodier & Gibb, 2007;Hanafi et al, 2015;Haron et al, 2009;Hung et al, 2015;Jabar et al, 2013;Lou & Kamar, 2012;Majid et al, 2011;Na & Roger, 2008;Polat, 2008;Samari et al, 2012;Zhang et al, 2018). These advantages are more significant for adopters in terms of cost and time certainty, improving building efficiency and productivity, reducing workplace safety and health hazards, alleviating skilled workers' issues and reliance on manual foreign labour, and achieving the ultimate goal of reducing overall construction costs.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Business Model Elements for Industrialised Building System

Mohamed¹,

Mohammad²,

Mahbub³

2021

IJARBSS

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The objective of this paper is to identify the elements of a viable business model that is suitable to be used by SME contractors in adopting Industrialised Building System (IBS). In order to achieve the objective this paper identifies and reviews the elements of business model that are important in business. A thorough review of the relevant literature on business model within the scope of IBS and supported by other industries had been conducted. From the findings, nineteen business model elements have been identified. There are 1.

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Section: Production Methodsmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Business Model Elements for Industrialised Building System

Mohamed¹,

Mohammad²,

Mahbub³

2021

IJARBSS

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“…The component method is linked to the mass manufacturing notion and implies a component-level repetitive logic (Vrijhoef and Koskela, 2005). The benefits of prefabrication could be classified into three groups: a) economic, environmental, & social viability (Bhattacharjee et al 2016). Lower construction costs are among the economic benefits, while greater labour productivity is among the social benefits & reduction in the working hours of construction labours, and the environmental side includes benefits such as reduced rework due to reduced material waste.…”

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Challenges Faced in Prefabrication or Modular Construction

Beulah¹

2022

IJRASET

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The prefabricated materials used in construction has indeed been hailed amongst the most efficient approaches, there is a difficulty in implementing this process in the construction industry. The article included an outline of the obstacles and factors that influence prefabrication or modular construction in India. The issues of prefabrication and modular construction were investigated through case studies. Prefabricated elements have been demonstrated to be an efficient and efficient approach for improving productivity and the process of construction, as well as assuring the quality of construction & reducing time and cost. However, there are a number of issues with this strategy in practise, including initial high building costs, lack of understanding of the prefabricated method of construction, technical and installation hurdles, and the inability to find prefabrication businesses locally. Because of the nature of the city and also the growing population, the use of such prefabricated materials in the construction of buildings is beneficial. Keywords: Prefabricated construction, Challenges, fabricated elements, Installation hurdles

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“…While manufacturing is virtually fully automated and assembly is fast, the speed of process benefits will be affected if there is no design, production, and assembly planning for each part. Problems related to the planning of construction logistics operations, especially information flows, materials, people and space can be classified into three dimensions of sustainability: economic, environmental and social (Bhattacharjee et al, 2016). The economic dimension is the unnecessary cost due to the rework of poorly planned projects.…”

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confidence: 99%

Visilean® application for monitoring and control of pre-fabricated concrete panels

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Good design and construction planning are essential to ensure the quality of the final product. To do this, it is necessary to develop an integrated organizational system for production and work schedule control, just in time material delivery, job site layout planning and real-time task management. The main objective of this work is to propose a method to improve process flow planning of prefabricated concrete panels based on the software application that uses Visilean® to monitor the movement of the parts in the factory. Visilean® model was useful for the visual verification of project, production and installation processes allowing suggestions for improvements to operational procedures. Research’s contribution is to propose a method for integrated planning that favors scenarios creation to anticipate possible problems that usually occur in both production flow and information flow. In practice, the researchers created a simple interface that allows operators to visualize times, production services and their sequence in real-time. Better visualization of the processes and control has a great impact on the final product’s quality, as well as, timely delivery and improved communication between project, production and construction teams. For future research, the inclusion of the Internet of Things for process automation will be an essential complement to the model.

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Adoption of Pre-Fabrication in Construction to Achieve Sustainability Goals: An Empirical Study

Cited by 9 publications

References 20 publications

Business Model Elements for Industrialised Building System

Business Model Elements for Industrialised Building System

Challenges Faced in Prefabrication or Modular Construction

Visilean® application for monitoring and control of pre-fabricated concrete panels

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