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Business Improvement through Innovation in Construction Firms: The ‘Excellence’ Approach
Published in Ben Obinero Uwakweh, Issam A. Minkarah, 10th Symposium Construction Innovation and Global Competitiveness, 2002
Herbert S. Robinson, Patricia M. carrillo, Chimay J. Anumba, Ahmed M. Al-Ghassan
For many years, firms in the construction sector have looked to leading manufacturers as a paradigm for the industrialization of construction (Bröchner, 1997). The emphasis has shifted. Sometimes, manufacturers have been seen as more efficient because of their ability to draw benefit from mass production based on standardized components; more recently, their methods of encouraging and implementing innovative technologies have been in focus. Riley and Brown (2001) have recently warned against transfer of manufacturing practices to construction, arguing that the distinction between construction as a project culture and manufacturing as a company culture is relevant and an obstacle to transfer. From an innovation viewpoint, the development of business processes and not just project processes is now seen as crucial for the construction sector (Gann and Salter, 2000).
Construction culture between tradition and modernity: Three works by Álvaro Siza
Published in João Mascarenhas-Mateus, Ana Paula Pires, Manuel Marques Caiado, Ivo Veiga, History of Construction Cultures, 2021
T. C. Ferreira, F. Barbosa, E. Fernandes
The three buildings presented in this paper demonstrate how the use of different construction methods and materials led to the development of a new architectural language. With the construction of the ocean swimming pools, Siza affirms a construction culture transition that marked a turning point in his career and strongly influenced the subsequent production of other building actors. As mentioned earlier, this was the result of the evolution of the Portuguese construction culture and its accompanying debates in the 1950s and 1960s (together with the advances allowed by the industrialization of construction), leading to the affirmation of modern construction features, but also continuing to be linked to traditional building methods.
Construction information classification: An object oriented paradigm
Published in Manuel Martínez, Raimar Scherer, eWork and eBusiness in Architecture, Engineering and Construction, 2020
Because the concurrent construction process depends on labor at a high percent, classification systems that address WBS of projects are more widely accepted. This leads a barrier in front of the industrialization of construction sector. In order to reduce the amount of labor use in AEC industry, construction sector must evolve. This is only possible by forcing a parallel effort for the innovative production technologies towards automated construction and thereby using classification systems, which address the product breakdown structure of projects.
Experimental Study on Earthquake-Resilient Precast Shear Wall with Bolt-Plate Connectors
Published in Journal of Earthquake Engineering, 2023
Ruyue Liu, Qiulan Lai, Guiyun Yan, Yongsheng Yu
The precast structures have attracted considerable attention, owing to the advantages of less in-field operation, standardized production, shorter construction period, and environmental protection (Kurama et al. 2018; Lacey et al. 2018). With the rapid development of industrialization of construction industry in China, the precast structures are extensively applied in practice and the precast ratio has reached 30% in 2020. The precast shear wall (PSW) structure is one of the dominant structural systems (Singhal et al. 2019), with the favorable characteristics of larger lateral stiffness and strength, and has a promising prospect in tall buildings, especially in seismic regions with high intensity. It is universally known that the structural integrity of precast structures is impaired due to series of connections for the assembly structure, moreover, the seismic performance of precast structures is greatly affected by the mechanical behavior of connections. To date, numerous studies have been conducted to develop different types of connections with desired behavior, including dry connection, wet connections as well as hybrid connection (Fu et al. 2022).
Configuration analysis of the influencing factors of design standardization in China’s building industrialization —— Qualitative Comparative Analysis based on (fsQCA) fuzzy set
Published in Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering, 2022
As the most basic and active factor of productivity in design enterprises, personnel plays an important role in the realization of design standardization. With the promotion of construction industrialization, assembly construction is gradually promoted in enterprises, and the design link is the source of the subsequent product specifications and performance. First of all, existing designers have low design level of prefabricated buildings, lack of skill training and practical experience, which may induce poor design and cause conflicts between manufacturers and designers (Polat 2008). Secondly, the simple description of the main material table in the design document may lead to rework during construction. Without detailed description of relevant standards and key performance requirements, engineering quality cannot be guaranteed, cost is out of control, and acceptance difficulty increases (Xiaoyun 2019). Some scholars also conducted research from the perspective of professional and technical personnel and found that well-trained people are more likely to control the quality of prefabricated components in a certain climate environment (Chen, Okudan, and Riley 2009). Therefore, it is believed that strengthening the training and training of the whole process of design talents and improving the coordination and communication ability of designers can ensure the design efficiency and quality and better promote the realization of architectural design standardization.
Design for manufacture and assembly (DfMA) in construction: the old and the new
Published in Architectural Engineering and Design Management, 2021
Weisheng Lu, Tan Tan, Jinying Xu, Jing Wang, Ke Chen, Shang Gao, Fan Xue
When looking at the history of DfMA in construction, scholars often cite the pioneering modernist architect Le Corbusier who, in his influential book Towards a New Architecture (1923), advocated industrialization of construction and proposed the famous maxim, ‘A house is a machine to live in’. However, the popularity of DfMA in construction is a recent phenomenon. Unlike manufactured products which are designed in-house, mass-produced, and sold to end users, construction products (e.g. housing, buildings, and infrastructure) are bespoke (Fox, Marsh, & Cockerham, 2001). Every construction product is contextualized within the geo-technical conditions of the site and its surroundings, the planned socio-economic function, and many other factors. There can be no ‘standard’, ‘one-size-fit-for-all’ design for mass production. It would be exceedingly difficult if not impossible for an architect, like his/her counterparts in manufacturing, to conceptualize, optimize, prototype, and select a design to mass construct. In addition, the orthodoxy dislikes the tedium of ‘standard’ architecture design. Thus, the ‘one-off’ project as an organization form has been adopted in the construction industry to organize works (Wang, Lu, Sönderland, & Chen, 2018). Put simply, the construction industry looks at projects while other industries are concerned with products.