Life cycle energy performances and environmental impacts of a prefabricated building module

Tumminia, Giovanni; Guarino, Francesco; Longo, Sonia; Ferraro, Marco; Cellura, Maurizio; Antonucci, V.

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2018.04.059

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“…Sustainability 2019, 11, x FOR PEER REVIEW 3 of 15 the Europe Union, the United Kingdom, Japan, and Singapore [10,33,34]. In China, prefabrication has increasingly gained the attention of the government.…”

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“…Modular prefabrication, which offers opportunities to develop sustainable construction, has been widely used and improved in some developed countries and regions, such as the United States, the Europe Union, the United Kingdom, Japan, and Singapore [10,33,34]. In China, prefabrication has increasingly gained the attention of the government.…”

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Sustainable Performance of Buildings through Modular Prefabrication in the Construction Phase: A Comparative Study

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Prefabrication has been considered an effective alternative to conventional building. It has gained an increasing amount of attention over the last few decades as a way to advance sustainable construction. This study focused on the construction stage to compare sustainable performances of prefabrication with conventional building. Sixteen indicators were extracted from a literature review and specialist interviews to conduct a sustainability evaluation. A survey was delivered to developers, designers, superintendents, manufacturers, and contractors of a Chinese case project. A total of 51 valid responses were collected. Projection pursuit (PP), based on the real-coded accelerating genetic algorithm (RAGA), was employed to evaluate the sustainability of prefabrication. The results showed that there was a consensus among the participants that prefabrication has more obvious sustainable performances in the construction phase compared with conventional building. However, cognitive differences among the participants regarding the sustainability of prefabrication were also pronounced. The findings presented in this paper may assist the government to propose feasible policies and measures to promote the development of prefabrication in China.

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Sustainable Performance of Buildings through Modular Prefabrication in the Construction Phase: A Comparative Study

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“…If the keywords of the "pop-up" group led to few results, more results were found using the keyword "temporary" (used in double resulting combination first with words such as "strategies," "housing," "architecture," "uses," "structures," and "urban planning"). The results can be grouped in the following categories: temporary housing, in the context of emergency or to respond to new demands [47,48,[53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65][66][67][68][69]; temporary uses and strategies in the city [5,[7][8][9]11,24,47,[70][71][72][73][74][75][76][77][78]; life-cycle and reuse of temporary structures [13,[55][56][57][58]64,[79][80][81]. Being conceived of as "temporary," pop-up environments are characterized by two fundamental properties-they have an expiration date that refers to their period of use, intermediate between the previous one that was interrupted and the next one that has not yet be...…”

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Framework Conditions and Strategies for Pop-Up Environments in Urban Planning

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Urban strategies and the way cities are planned have changed throughout history, adapting to the needs of the inhabitants, infrastructure requirements, and advances in technology. Uses and customs of people and cities are changing and can evolve much faster than in the past, with the result that urban planning is often too slow to adequately meet the current needs of society. In this context, the development of pop-up environments for temporary developments could be a solution to meet the needs of flexibility, adaptation, and resilience of a city. This allows the urban planner to consider systems from a short-term perspective, fulfilling current needs without compromising the development of potentially different activities in the future. The purpose of this research work is to outline the general requirements of pop-up environments in urban developments that allow for adequate integration into urban planning strategies. Based on an extensive evaluation of the existing literature and a series of case studies, the paper analyzes the key elements that define the framework conditions of urban planning strategies for temporary developments that generate a positive impact on the overall urban system.

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“…For example, prefabricated housing in USA has shown a 14% average annual growth from 2012 to 2017. 1 Other heating-dominated countries, including the UK, Germany, Finland, Sweden and Japan, have been producing prefabricated buildings in large scale, [2][3][4][5] while there are also a significant growth in prefabricated buildings in southern temperate-subtropical climate countries, such as China, Turkey and Israel. [6][7][8][9] Prefabricated buildings have been heavily promoted by the Chinese government in recent years, for the purpose of alleviating adverse environmental burdens and accelerating urbanization.…”

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Development of the Hunan’s Provincial Key Lab for prefabricated buildings for energy conservation at the University of South China

Wang

Zhu

Yu³

2018

Indoor and Built Environment

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Life cycle energy performances and environmental impacts of a prefabricated building module

Cited by 120 publications

References 6 publications

Sustainable Performance of Buildings through Modular Prefabrication in the Construction Phase: A Comparative Study

Sustainable Performance of Buildings through Modular Prefabrication in the Construction Phase: A Comparative Study

Framework Conditions and Strategies for Pop-Up Environments in Urban Planning

Development of the Hunan’s Provincial Key Lab for prefabricated buildings for energy conservation at the University of South China

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