The recent trends on prefabricated buildings with circular economy (CE) approach

Zairul, Mohd

doi:10.1016/j.clet.2021.100239

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“…The cost of prefabricated construction is higher than traditional construction due to the uneven distribution of prefabrication factories and high operation costs in China (51). Prefabrication and industrialized building systems confer advantages including shorter project duration, cost savings, enhanced site protection, better product quality, and reduced waste (52). For contractors, opening prefabrication factories can enhance their own industrial capacity.…”

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Exploring Key Factors for Contractors in Opening Prefabrication Factories: A Chinese Case Study

Zhang

Xiang

Zhong

et al. 2022

Front. Public Health

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Adoption of prefabrication is essential for improving the urban built environment. However, the existing prefabrication market in China is far from mature. As the stakeholder who conducts construction activities, the contractor is facing a dilemma of lacking steady prefabricated components supply. In this circumstance, a potential solution is that contractors open their own prefabrication factories to guarantee stable component supply. The aim of this research is exploring the key factors for contractors to open prefabrication factories. Firstly, a total of 28 influencing factors were identified from literature. Then, the identified factors were divided into four categories: policy environment, market environment, technological environment, and enterprise internal environment. Through interviews with experienced professionals, a total of 19 factors were selected for future analysis. Based on the 19 factors, a questionnaire was designed and distributed to the experts to rate the degree of mutual influences. The collected data were analyzed using Ucinet6.0 software, and the adjacency matrix and the visual models were established. Finally, through the analysis of node centrality, betweenness centrality, and closeness centrality, the four key influencing factors were determined including mandatory implementation policy, precast concrete component's price, market demand, and contractor's strategic objectives. The results of this study could assist contractors in making decisions of opening their own prefabrication factories toward more sustainable environment.

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Exploring Key Factors for Contractors in Opening Prefabrication Factories: A Chinese Case Study

Zhang

Xiang

Zhong

et al. 2022

Front. Public Health

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“…There is a real opportunity to conjoin OSC and CE to provide new insight and opportunities to deliver more evidence-based sustainable systems. This study analyses extant literature in CE and OSC (between 2000 and2021) through a bibliometric review to tease out critical measures for their integration and transformation. Design/methodology/approach -This study adopts a science mapping quantitative literature review approach employing bibliometric and visualisation techniques to systematically investigate data.…”

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“…Both manual and scientometric analysis have been employed to tease out research and practice focus in OSC or CE. For instance, studies in CE research (Minunno et al, 2020;Benachio et al, 2020;Osobajo et al, 2020;Zairul, 2021;Norouzi et al, 2021;Tserng et al, 2021) and OSC research (Hosseini et al, 2018;Jin et al, 2018;Yin et al, 2019;Hou et al, 2020) are evident. However, they propose little or no clear links for OSC and CE integration.…”

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“…This study analyses extant literature in CE andOSC (between 2000 and2021) through a bibliometric review to tease out critical measures for their integration and transformation. The objectives are to identify current OSC and CE research trends in literature, (2) emerging constructs for integrating CE and OSC and (3) near and future research directions.…”

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Establishing underpinning concepts for integrating circular economy and offsite construction: a bibliometric review

Obi

Arif

Daniel

et al. 2022

BEPAM

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PurposeCircular economy (CE) and offsite construction (OSC) are two innovations for improving the construction industry's overall performance against a myriad of sustainability-driven agenda/initiatives. There is a real opportunity to conjoin OSC and CE to provide new insight and opportunities to deliver more evidence-based sustainable systems. This study analyses extant literature in CE and OSC (between 2000 and 2021) through a bibliometric review to tease out critical measures for their integration and transformation.Design/methodology/approachThis study adopts a science mapping quantitative literature review approach employing bibliometric and visualisation techniques to systematically investigate data. The Web of Science (WoS) database was used to collect data, and the VOSviewer software to analyse the data collected to determine strengths, weights, clusters and research trends in OSC and CE.FindingsImportant findings emerging from the study include extensive focus on sustainability, waste, life cycle assessment and building information modelling (BIM), which currently serve as strong interlinks to integrate OSC and CE. Circular business models, deconstruction and supply chain management are emerging areas, with strong links for integrating CE and OSC. These emerging areas influence organisational and operational decisions towards sustainable value creation, hence requiring more future empirical investigations.Originality/valueThis study is a novel research using bibliometric analysis to unpick underpinning conduits for integrating CE and OSC, providing a blueprint for circular OSC future research and practice. It provides the needed awareness to develop viable strategies for integrating CE in OSC, creating opportunities to transition to more sustainable systems in the construction sector.

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Building a Sustainable Future: A Circular Economy–Based Leasing Model for Affordable Housing in Malaysia, Evaluated by Life Cycle Assessment

Zairul

2023

Environmental Footprints and Eco-Design of Products and Processes

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The recent trends on prefabricated buildings with circular economy (CE) approach

Cited by 39 publications

References 30 publications

Exploring Key Factors for Contractors in Opening Prefabrication Factories: A Chinese Case Study

Exploring Key Factors for Contractors in Opening Prefabrication Factories: A Chinese Case Study

Establishing underpinning concepts for integrating circular economy and offsite construction: a bibliometric review

Building a Sustainable Future: A Circular Economy–Based Leasing Model for Affordable Housing in Malaysia, Evaluated by Life Cycle Assessment

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