Building information modelling for off-site construction: Review and future directions

Yin, Xianfei; Liu, Hexu; Chen, Yuan; Al‐Hussein, Mohamed

doi:10.1016/j.autcon.2019.01.010

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“…The overall design barrier strength of the project case was larger. Therefore, the first suggestion provided to the facility management sector is to establish a library for standard house types to achieve architectural design through multihouse combinations.Sustainability 2020, 12, 2994 2 of 16 construction [7], and off-site construction [8]. Whether emergency-driven or market-driven, prefabricated buildings are becoming increasingly popular.…”

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Research on the Barrier Analysis and Strength Measurement of a Prefabricated Building Design

Yuan

Wang

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Sustainability

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As a sustainable and cleaner type of facility, prefabricated buildings face more design barriers than traditional non-prefabricated buildings. Identifying and managing these barriers is key to improving the success rate of prefabricated building design. However, direct studies on these design barriers are extremely rare. The present study solved this problem by combining multiple methods, including grounded theory (GT), structured self-intersection matrix (SSIM), analytic network process (ANP), and the linear weighted sum method (LWSM). GT was adopted to identify the barriers to prefabricated building design and then SSIM was used to analyze the interactions among them. The eight design barriers were finally identified and classified into three clusters: technical barriers, economic barriers, and management barriers. A further analysis found that there is dependence and feedback among these clusters. The technical barrier cluster and management barrier cluster experience self-feedback. A network model based on ANP was next established to calculate the weights of the barrier elements and then this model was combined with LWSM to evaluate the overall design barrier strength of a project case. The results showed that architectural individualization has the greatest impact on prefabricated building design, followed by the collaborative issues among multiple units and professional designer issues. The overall design barrier strength of the project case was larger. Therefore, the first suggestion provided to the facility management sector is to establish a library for standard house types to achieve architectural design through multihouse combinations.Sustainability 2020, 12, 2994 2 of 16 construction [7], and off-site construction [8]. Whether emergency-driven or market-driven, prefabricated buildings are becoming increasingly popular. However, several barriers affecting the development of prefabricated buildings are often mentioned, including a higher total cost [9], impaired aesthetics [10], additional risks [11], a lack of professional expertise [12], and the absence of management experience [13]. Nevertheless, prefabricated buildings are still favored by the government of China due to their many advantages, including their faster construction speed [14], less required on-site labor [15], higher construction quality [16], sustainable development [17], and superior occupational health and safety [18]. With the development of prefabricated buildings, some new issues are beginning to emerge and become increasingly prominent, especially the design changes of prefabricated buildings. Bogenstatter noted that the design stage determines up to 80% of operational costs, as well as the environment impacts [19,20]. Hence, design changes can waste a great deal of time and money and even affect the quality of buildings. Overcoming this issue remains a troubling prospect for industry insiders and researchers.Design changes are common not just for ordinary buildings but also for prefabricated buildings. However, the design of a p...

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“…Sustainability 2020, 12, 2994 2 of 16 construction [7], and off-site construction [8]. Whether emergency-driven or market-driven, prefabricated buildings are becoming increasingly popular.…”

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Research on the Barrier Analysis and Strength Measurement of a Prefabricated Building Design

Yuan

Wang

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Sustainability

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“…For instance, uses 3D digital building models containing parametric information to enable integration through enhanced visualization, and ease of data sharing and reuse by various members of the project team. (Yin et al 2019;Marco and Karzouna, 2018). The increased collaboration supported by this technology has the potential to reward all participating parties.…”

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Lean as an Integrator of Modular Construction

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Scheer

2019

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The use of Lean concepts is growing in several industrial sectors. Corporations are seeking new ways to achieve improved operational performance and to identify process improvement measures to improve workflows. The research presented in this proposes to achieve a conceptual framework that can be used in the modular construction market. The research method selected is Design Science Research (DSR), since the research proposes to create a new artifact constituting the integration of Lean Manufacturing, Lean Thinking, Lean Construction and Lean Office in a consistent manner and one that can accommodate Integrated Project Delivery (IPD). In this paper, Permanent Modular Construction (PMC) will be investigated as an industrial construction process. PMC consists of the manufacture of components of the building with volumetric geometry, produced outside the construction site in a factory environment and then transported to the worksite to be assembled with a set of other modules, with comparably few construction activities carried out on site. In order to execute projects using this construction method it is necessary to integrated design, factory operations, transportation and construction site operations, accounting for different locations and different characteristics in a single workflow: this is one of the primary challenges of PMC.

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“…We propose this dual stage approach to improve the validity of the study as the findings of the two stages corroborate each other (triangulation), the bibliometric analysis aids the subsequent "technologyactivity" mapping (facilitation), both the underlying technology and it's application are explored (complimentary), which are the key approaches in mixed method research models (Bryman 2016;Zou et al 2014). Mixed method models improve the strength of individual research paradigms of the quantitative and qualitative methods (Yin et al 2019;Zou et al 2014).…”

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“…Since AI in construction is an evolving research area, it is imperative that we obtain a research front (Aria & Cuccurullo 2017), define the boundary and understand the research area without any bias (Yin et al 2019). Hence, we use the keyword co-occurrence network in the bibliometric analysis to understand the pattern or frame-work in the existing research (Aria & Cuccurullo 2017;Yin et al 2019) to define a research front. Keywords are the terms that represent the core of the journal article (Su & Lee 2010).…”

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Regulation of AI Technologies in the Construction Industry

Pillai

Matus

2019

SSRN Journal

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The development of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based technologies for the construction industry, though not as advanced as in some areas, is progressing. The degree of automation in construction is anticipated to eventually lead to humanoid robots and autonomous back loaders or cranes operating at construction sites. The prospect of a highly automated construction industry is a medium-term future prospect. Hence it is imperative to proactively understand the regulatory gaps, to support policy interventions to mitigate potential risks. Regulation of futuristic technologies like AI is challenging in sectors where there is a lack of adequate tacit and applied knowledge. AI regulation is complicated by the massiveness of the construction industry, characterized by a broad spectrum of actors and activities. We propose a framework to understand the AI inclusion in the construction industry and identification of risks and regulatory gaps by considering the diverse stakeholders and their risk perception.

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Building information modelling for off-site construction: Review and future directions

Cited by 330 publications

References 130 publications

Research on the Barrier Analysis and Strength Measurement of a Prefabricated Building Design

Research on the Barrier Analysis and Strength Measurement of a Prefabricated Building Design

Lean as an Integrator of Modular Construction

Regulation of AI Technologies in the Construction Industry

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