Optimal Work Assignment to Multiskilled Resources in Prefabricated Construction

Nasirian, Araz; Arashpour, Mehrdad; Abbasi, Babak; Akbarnezhad, Ali

doi:10.1061/(asce)co.1943-7862.0001627

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“…Resource planning has an indispensable impact on project performance after comparing different change-management policies [ 114 ]. Nasirian et al [ 115 ] investigated different resource management policies, such as hiring multiskilled crews to optimize the prefabrication projects. Research conducted by Zhang et al [ 34 ] illustrated that substantial exertion in policy management is needed in the local construction industry to improve its sustainable CI levels, and enhancement policies on effective cooperation among research institutions, universities and companies should be a priority.…”

Section: Findings and Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Promoting Construction Industrialisation with Policy Interventions: A Holistic Review of Published Policy Literature

Jin

Shen

Wang

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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By adopting the concept of ‘factory assembly followed by onsite installation,’ construction industrialisation (CI) plays an increasingly important role in sustainable urban development. CI can enhance construction quality and efficiency while reducing environmental impacts. To promote the CI, several policy interventions have been developed and implemented in different countries and regions. This study reviews the global CI promoting regulations and policies to provide a comprehensive insight into its interrelationship and development tendency. The research selects 105 publications related to practical CI policy from widely utilised databases (i.e., Web of Science and Scopus). Based on the annual publication trend analysis, geospatial distribution, and citation analysis, seven interrelated critical CI policy formulation themes are identified and examined: regulatory policies, standardised policies, promotional policies, urban design and planning policies, technological policies, managerial and educational policies, and sustainability policies. In addition, internal correlations and mutual influence among these seven classified policies are explored and discussed, which helps scholars enhance their grasp of current CI policy research and guide future research. This review provides the research community and industrial practitioners with a comprehensive understanding of various CI-promoting policies and a roadmap to CI-promoting policy development and evaluation.

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Section: Findings and Discussionmentioning

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Promoting Construction Industrialisation with Policy Interventions: A Holistic Review of Published Policy Literature

Jin

Shen

Wang

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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“…Other than that, there were typical construction skills used in the project such as construction managers, architects, quantity surveyors, land surveyors, metal fitters, finishers and crane operators. These skill quantities reveal how manufacturing specific skills such as carpenters and production managers are important for OSC compared to traditional onsite construction (Nasirian et al, 2019b;Arashpour et al, 2018;Vokes et al, 2013).…”

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Offsite construction skills evolution: an Australian case study

Ginigaddara

Perera

Feng

et al. 2021

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Purpose The construction industry is currently responding to pressures of industrialisation happening across all sectors. Consequently, offsite construction (OSC) has become a vehicle to achieve industrialisation. This requires changes in traditional construction processes resulting in possible changes in construction skill requirements. Accordingly, the purpose of this study is to identify and review prevailing OSC practices and skills in the Australian construction industry. This study aims to critically analyse the existing skill profile classifications through a single case study and identify the need for an OSC specific skill classification. Design/methodology/approach This study follows a case study design, with an in-depth analysis of a single construction project. Only one case study was studied because scientifically, one example was enough to prove that the prevailing skill classifications do not represent OSC skills in a modern context. Data was retrospectively collected through semi-structured interviews of project stakeholders representing design, manufacture and assembly. Content analysis was conducted to analyse the collected data and produce findings. Findings This study identifies the inadequacy of the existing classification system, unavailability and the need of OSC specific skill categorisation. It highlights new skills that enter OSC; building information modelling engineer, three-dimensional draftsperson, OSC project manager and project coordinator, which are not identified in the available Australian skill classifications. These, together with existing skills need to be carved in to create a new skill classification. Originality/value This study is the first of its kind where a comprehensive OSC project is evaluated as a case study to determine OSC skill classification requirements in Australia.

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“…Time scheduling serves as an outline of a project. If the schedule is organized in which it optimizes the time and arranges the tasks orderly, the construction will be carried out more efficiently and time could be saved in this way [23]. On the contrary, if the schedule is disorganized and hard to implement, productivity will be negatively influenced.…”

Section: Project Planning and Designmentioning

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Critical success factors associated with time performance in prefabricated construction

Zhao¹

2021

E3S Web Conf.

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Prefabricated construction becomes an increasingly important construction mode especially for buildings that require a short construction time. The construction of Huoshenshan Hospital shows how efficient prefabricated construction could be. In order to provide a clearer blueprint for how to improve time performance in prefabricated construction, this paper identifies 13 important critical success factors associated with time performance and groups them into five categories—project planning and design, supply chain, techniques, teamwork, and external influences. The findings of this paper provide a better understanding of time management in prefabricated construction, which can help to develop appropriate strategies to improve productivity.

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Optimal Work Assignment to Multiskilled Resources in Prefabricated Construction

Cited by 40 publications

References 47 publications

Promoting Construction Industrialisation with Policy Interventions: A Holistic Review of Published Policy Literature

Promoting Construction Industrialisation with Policy Interventions: A Holistic Review of Published Policy Literature

Offsite construction skills evolution: an Australian case study

Critical success factors associated with time performance in prefabricated construction

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