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Additive Manufacturing in Off-Site Construction: Review and Future Directions [PDF]
Buildings, 2022 Additive manufacturing (AM) is one of the pillars of Industry 4.0 to attain a circular economy. The process involves a layer-by-layer deposition of material from a computer-aided-design (CAD) model to form complex shapes.
Jubert Pasco, Zhen Lei, Clodualdo Aranas
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Buildings, 2022 Off-site construction is becoming more popular as more companies recognise the benefits of shifting the construction process away from the construction site and into a controlled manufacturing environment.
Samira Al-Sadat Salari +5 more
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Buildings, 2022 Building information modeling (BIM) and virtual design and construction (VDC) are useful management processes and methodologies to enhance project communication and coordination.
Mohamed Adel, Zhuo Cheng, Zhen Lei
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Digital Technologies in Offsite and Prefabricated Construction: Theories and Applications
Buildings, 2023 Due to its similarity to industrialized products, the offsite construction industry is seen as a focus for the transformation of Construction 4.0. Many digital technologies have been applied or have the potential to be applied to realize the integration ...
Zhuo Cheng +3 more
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Buildings, 2022 Off-site construction is an innovative type of construction with the philosophy of standardizing the process and deploying the latest technological enablers. Many technologies, such as the Building Information Model (BIM), Internet of Things (IoT), etc.,
Yuxi Wei, Zhen Lei, Sadiq Altaf
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Buildings, 2022 Predictive analytics have been used to improve efficiency and productivity in the construction industry by leveraging the insights from historical data with a variety of applications in project management.
Ramtin Azami +3 more
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Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities in Off-Site Construction
Applied Sciences, 2022 Industry 4.0 is seeking to advance traditional construction practices towards more efficient and internet of things (IoT)-based construction practices, such as offsite construction.
Kudakwashe Nyamuchiwa +2 more
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Synchronising Off-Site Fabrication with On-Site Production in Construction
Construction Economics and Building, 2021 The aim of this study is to explore how offsite fabrication (OSF) can be tightly coupled with production and assembly on-site. Prefabrication is a production method that has potential to yield significant productivity and sustainability improvements in ...
Alan Mossman, Saad Sarhan
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Buildings, 2022 Despite persistent calls for cleaner production and improved automation of construction processes, the adoption of the Internet of Things (IoT) in managing the supply chains of off-site construction businesses has been discouraged due to various ...
Zaheer Abbas Kazmi, Mahmoud Sodangi
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Buildings, 2022 The prefabricated construction industry, also known as off-site construction, has been operating in North America for several years now and differs from traditional construction in its much shorter project timelines, lower costs, and increased build ...
Laurence Picard +2 more
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