Design for manufacture: A strategy for successful application to buildings

Fox, Stephen; Marsh, Laurence; Cockerham, G.

doi:10.1080/01446193.2001.9709625

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“…The design unit needs more assistance from the manufacturing unit and the construction unit when it carries out the design of a prefabricated building. Design for manufacture and assembly (DFMA) is a tool for improving prefabricated design [21][22][23]. DFMA is a lean principle and advocates that the design of a unit should consider the requirements of other units during the prefabricated building design.…”

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

Yuan

Wang

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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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“…Currently there is a lack of suitable methods and tools to help building designers take the most environmentally enlightened and beneficial decision, [19,22,26,27]. A possible explanation of this trend is provided by [16]: the tools available are unsuitable because they are deemed unaligned with the designers' needs by those who have tried them, resonating to the rest of the industry and the tools are now perceived as not being useful [16].…”

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“…Therefore, all studies connecting buildings and eco-design need to be gathered to have more generally valid conclusion. Furthermore, eco-design was developed to fit the scope of product design [4], however, building design differs from the design of products in scale, temporal scope and complexity [19]. Where a product should fulfill one function a building is the sum of many products each fulfilling their part of the entire building's functionality.…”

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How Lack of Knowledge and Tools Hinders the Eco-Design of Buildings—A Systematic Review

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The building sector is responsible for extensive resource consumption and waste generation, resulting in high pressure on the environment. A way to potentially mitigate this is by including environmental considerations during building design through the concept known as eco-design. Despite the multiple available approaches of eco-design, the latter is not easily achieved in the building sector. The objective of this paper is to identify and discuss what barriers are currently hindering the implementation of eco-design in the building sector and by which measures building designers can include environmental considerations in their design process. Through a systematic literature review, several barriers to implementation were identified, the main ones being lack of suitable legislation, lack of knowledge amongst building designers, and lack of suitable tools for designers to use. Furthermore, two specific tools were identified that allow the inclusion of environmental consideration in building design, along with nine design strategies providing qualitative guidance on how to potentially minimize energy and material consumption, as well as waste generation. This paper contributes a holistic overview of the major barriers to and existing tools and method for the eco-design of buildings, and provides guidance for both future research and practice.

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“…For example, Crowther [21] introduced the insights of design for disassembly to the area of reusing building materials to increase life cycle 'assemblability' based on DfA. Fox et al [22] provided a strategy for successful application to buildings using DfM. Kim et al [23] presented the suitability of precast components for standardized bridge construction in the UK by employing DfMA.…”

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DfMA: Towards an Integrated Strategy for a More Productive and Sustainable Construction Industry in Australia

Langston

Zhang

2021

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Design for manufacture and assembly (DfMA) is an important part of the future of the construction industry due to the promise of speed of project delivery, quality control, worker safety, and waste minimization onsite via the purposeful design for manufacture and assembly offsite. However, the adoption of DfMA in Australia has been slow. This paper investigates the barriers prohibiting widespread uptake and how digital construction will be a catalyst for improving use on commercial-scale projects. A total of six leading experts were interviewed to elicit their opinions, and seven recent case studies of high-rise modular apartment and hotel buildings constructed by Hickory were cross-referenced as evidence of DfMA capability. The experts suggested that the reasons for slow adoption in Australia were community mindset, government regulations and incentives, planning and building codes, unionization and business politics, finance, and supply chain management. The case studies suggest that compatible building type and transportation distance are also factors. These barriers can be addressed by the clever integration of building information modelling tools with lean construction processes as part of a proposed strategy leading to smarter (more productive) and better (more sustainable) outcomes predicated on growth in digital construction practices. The paper concludes with a proposed framework for change that conceptualizes the ‘ecosystem’ needed to support widespread DfMA in the Australian context, including the paradigm shift from building to manufacturing/assembly, the displacement of workers from onsite to offsite activity, and the expansion of interdisciplinary design and construct collaboration.

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Design for manufacture: A strategy for successful application to buildings

Cited by 34 publications

References 2 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

How Lack of Knowledge and Tools Hinders the Eco-Design of Buildings—A Systematic Review

DfMA: Towards an Integrated Strategy for a More Productive and Sustainable Construction Industry in Australia

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