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Building a more Modular Future

2020
The completed projects are proving the sector can deliver demonstrably higher quality, with reduced defects and improved building performance, and with greater choice of layout and specification offered to customers. The engagement from government and signs of changing attitudes to innovation from some of the larger housebuilders could be an early ...
Simon Bayliss, Rory Bergin
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Building modular legal knowledge systems

Expert Systems with Applications, 1992
Abstract A practical legal knowledge system must be versatile and capable of supporting many fundamentally different aspects of the lawyer's work. In this paper a general framework for building knowledge systems from distinct but communicating modules is proposed.
Jonas Barklund, Andreas Hamfelt, Jan Wünsche   +2 more
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Implementation of building informational modeling in designing multi–story modular building

Russian Journal of Construction Science and Technology, 2023
The paper discusses features of employing BIM for designing modular building, using the Steel2Real'23 competition as a case study. The Steel2Real'23 student competition, organized by the Association for the Development of Steel Construction, seeks to enhance the usage of steel in construction.
Karimullin, I. S., Kozhemiako, E. A., Alekhin, V. N.   +2 more
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Sustainable Prefabricated Modular Buildings

2014
Economy, speed of construction and improved environmental performance are critical variables that challenge the modern construction industry to strike a balance between. Employing innovative prefabricated modular structures is one key strategy used to achieve these goals.
T Gunawardena, P Mendis, T Ngo, L Aye, J Alfano   +4 more
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Flatpack cities [modular building]

Engineering & Technology, 2014
In a world where buildings must be cheaper, quicker, cleaner and more environmentally friendly than ever, developers are looking to other industries to build our future housing. Can we really build houses in factories?
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Modular retrofitting approach for residential buildings

2023
Residential buildings are one of the crucial energy consumers. The vast majority of the existing buildings require urgent retrofitting due to the very poor thermal insulation properties of their external building envelope. There are many building retrofitting technologies available on the market.
Anatolijs Borodinecs, Aleksandrs Zajacs, Arturs Palcikovskis   +2 more
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Building a modular service oriented workflow engine

2009 IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing and Applications (SOCA), 2009
Current workflow engines, often based on WS-BPEL, are monolithic programs to orchestrate a business process or take part in choreography between partners. They cover aspects like the execution of the workflow description derived from the business process, the communication with external services, and the handling of errors. Both, the communication with
Stürmer, Gerhard, Mangler, Jürgen, Schikuta, Erich   +2 more
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Modularity Analysis of Smart Building Solutions

2019 Chinese Automation Congress (CAC), 2019
This paper studies the modularity analysis problem for smarting building solutions. We utilize the modularization function that was originally introduced for analyzing the degree of modularity in a given product architecture. Traditional dedicated smart building solutions and a newly introduced mass customization solution called $\mathrm{I}^{2}\mathrm ...
Qiachuan Zhao, Yifan Wang, Xiaoqiang Jin
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Modular refinement and model building

1997
In this paper we show that formal program development can be viewed as a process of model building. Refinement diagrams are introduced and formally defined in terms of refinement developments. Hierarchical models are shown to be equivalent to modular refinement developments.
Martin de Groot, Ken Robinson
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Modular building system

2016
The present invention relates to the field of modular building systems. Embodiments of the invention include, a modular building system comprising planar sheets of material and moment connections, which are combined with tool-less or limited tool assembly mechanisms and can be used, for example, as spatial partitions, platforms, structural supports, or
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