The offsite and modular market is continuing to grow. This book builds on the success of a number of initiatives, including formative findings from literature, research and development and practice-based evidence (success stories). It presents new thinking and direction from leading experts in the fields of: design, process, construction, engineering, manufacturing, logistics, robotics, delivery platforms, business and transformational strategies, change management, legislation, organisational learning, software design, innovation and biomimetics. This book is particularly novel and timely, as it brings together a number of cogent subjects under one collective 'umbrella'. Each of these chapters contain original findings, all of which culminate in three 'Key Learning Points' which provide new insight into the cross-cutting themes, interrelationships and symbiotic forces that exist between each of these chapters. This approach also provides readers with new contextualised understanding of the wider issues affecting the offsite market, from the need to embrace societal challenges, through to the development of rich value-laden solutions required for creating sector resilience.
Content includes a balance between case studies and practice-based work, through to technical topics, theoretical propositions, pioneering research and future offsite opportunities ready for exploitation. This work includes: stakeholder integration, skills acquisition, new business models and processes, circularity and sustainable business strategies, robotics and automation, innovation and change, lean production methodologies and new construction methods, Design for Manufacturing and Assembly, scaled portfolio platforms and customisability, new legal regulatory standards and conformance issues and offsite feasibility scenario development/integration.
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Offsite Manufacturing: Envisioning the Future Agenda
Jack S. Goulding and Farzad Pour Rahimian
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Offsite Construction Driving Forces: A Critical Reflection of Hofstede's National Culture Model
Yuedan Liu, Chao Mao, and Xiangyu Wang
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Offsite Manufacturing: Discontinuous Challenges and Opportunities for Offsite Lifecycle Processes in Malaysia
Rahinah Ibrahim and Ali Rashidi
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Offsite Manufacturing in Construction: A Union of Business Models, Determinative Constructs, and Strategic Accomplishment
Gary D. Holt
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Industrialised House Building: Concepts and its Application in Sweden
Jerker Lessing and Lars Stehn
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Design for Manufacture and Assembly in Offsite Construction and Relationship with Concurrent Engineering
Mehrdad Arashpour
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Demonstration of BERA Language-Based Approach to Offsite Construction Design Analysis
Jin-Kook Lee and Charles M. Eastman
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Scoping Potential of Virtual Reality and Offsite Manufacturing: Envisioning the Future
Phillippa K. Carnemolla
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Towards Optimising OSM Implementation in Construction Projects: A Sustainable Procurement Perspective
Ahmed W.A. Hammad, Monty Sutrisna, and Atiq Zaman
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Productivity, Innovation and Disruption: A Study of Offsite Construction in the United States
Ryan E. Smith and Ivan Rupnik
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Core Offsite Manufacture Industry Drivers
Robert Hairstans and Tsvetomila A. Duncheva
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Offsite Construction Capability and Sector Resilience in the UK: An Integrated Systemic Approach for Learning
Wafaa Nadim
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Innovative Robotics and Automation for Offsite Manufacturing
Bahriye Ilhan, Thomas Bock, Thomas Linner, Kepa Iturralde, Wen Pan and Rongbo Hu
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The Impact of Organisational Learning and Change on Offsite Manufacturing
Christian Thuesen and Baris Bekdik
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Stakeholder Transformation in OSM Infrastructure Construction
Bryan Hubbard and Sarah M. Hubbard
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Core OSM Implementation Strategies
Edgar P. Small
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Prefabricated Housing Firms in Japan and Sweden: Learning from Leading Countries
Karen Manley and Kristian Widén
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Offsite Manufacturing Innovation in a Biomimetic Future
Ehab Sayed
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Optimising Offsite Manufactured Components in the UK House-Building Sector: Understanding the Legal and Contractual Issues
Andrew Agapiou
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Rethinking Offsite Manufacturing for Disaster Resilience
Niraj Thurairajah, Gayan Wedawatta, and Nirooja Thurairajah
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Developing and Diffusing a Timber-Based Multi-Storey Housing System: Moving Towards Offsite Manufacturing
John E.A. Lindgren
