Regional Comparisons of Contemporary Construction Industry Sustainable Concepts in the Chinese Context

Ma, Liang; Le, Yun; Li, Hongyang; Jin, Ruoyu; Piroozfar, Poorang; Liu, Mingqiang

doi:10.3390/su10113831

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“…Since prefabricated buildings have contributed greatly to the global fight against the new coronavirus "COVID-19", they have again attracted global attention. Prefabricating buildings has long been considered a sustainable practice in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industries [1], and involves moving a partially finished building from a construction site into a controlled component factory [2]. Other terms related to prefabricated buildings include prefabrication [3], industrialized buildings [4], precast buildings [5], prefabrication techniques [6], prefabricated…”

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

Yuan

Wang

et al. 2020

Sustainability

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“…In short, the contractors' perspective must be given more attention. Having in mind the trend towards design-build projects, not just in Norway (Eriksson et al 2017;Ma et al 2018), where the contractor is responsible for both the design and the production, this finding is even more relevant.…”

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Application of BIM Design Manuals: A Case Study

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2019

Proc. 27th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC)

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A problem often encountered by contractors is that the information provided is not always equal to the information needed in the Building Information Model (BIM). Somewhere between the BIM design manual and the final BIM information is omitted. The purpose of this paper is to identify the source of the information loss. Therefore, the relation between model information requirements in BIM design manuals, tender documents and the final BIM was investigated. The research included a literature study, a document study and a case study. In detail, three discipline models (road, construction and lighting) were investigated from a design-bid-build project in Norway. The results showed that the requirements were mostly complied with (sometimes with a pragmatic approach). However, the requirements represent the client's focus on the design and the in-use phase. Whereas the contractor's focus on the production phase is not given the same attention. From that perspective, the results are twofold; 1) some of the required information is not provided in an exact and reliable form, while 2) resources are spent on providing not required information. This applied research showed that design manuals should reflect new project delivery methods to support lean principles for all parties involved in the project.

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“…Sustainability and innovation had also been concerned in PPP research. As a sustainable concept, BIM (i.e., building information modeling) was perceived to have significant correlations with PPP projects [108]. Love et al [109] and Ren and Li [110] proposed utilizing BIM as the digital approach to assist the decisionmaking in VFM within PPP projects.…”

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A Holistic Review of Public‐Private Partnership Literature Published between 2008 and 2018

Jin

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Advances in Civil Engineering

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Adopting a holistic approach in the review of the public-private partnership (PPP) literature published since 2008 by incorporating scientometric analysis and further systematic analysis, this study aims to provide the big picture of the state-of-the-art research in PPP by addressing major issues and suggesting research trends in PPP. Following a three-step research methodology, this study started from a bibliometric analysis with science mapping to provide the state-of-the-art information on PPP research keywords, scholars, journal articles, institutions, and countries. A further systematic review was also conducted to identify future research directions of PPP in project management. The review of the existing literature in PPP revealed that there had been insufficient systematic approach in summarizing the research topics and proposing new research trends in PPP-related project management. It was further indicated that sustainability and innovation in PPP could be further studied, such as integrating building information modeling with PPP. Factors related to barriers in PPP implementation would continue growing. Future research directions in PPP were also proposed following the systematic review, for example, comparative studies of PPP practice between developing and developed countries. The current study provides a comprehensive approach by integrating bibliometric analysis, science mapping, and qualitative analysis in the latest PPP research. It reveals the contemporary research themes in PPP and provides directions for near-future directions of PPP research in project management.

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Regional Comparisons of Contemporary Construction Industry Sustainable Concepts in the Chinese Context

Cited by 16 publications

References 42 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

Application of BIM Design Manuals: A Case Study

A Holistic Review of Public‐Private Partnership Literature Published between 2008 and 2018

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