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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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Quantifying Safety in Off-site Construction
IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 2022 Abstract The construction industry has been identified as one of the most dangerous when examining safety performance and outcomes. The concept of leveraging off-site construction as a safer alternative to execute construction works has been presented by researchers and industry, but support for this premise with quantifiable data is ...
N Odo, J Rankin
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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 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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Buildings, 2022 Limited empirical and qualitative studies focus on the detailed processes and obstacles for coordinating off-site prefabrication between builders and suppliers.
Robert Lopez +2 more
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Benefit evaluation for off‐site production in construction [PDF]
Construction Management and Economics, 2006 Evaluating to what extent a component or building system should be produced off‐site is inadequate within the industry. The potential benefits of off‐site production (OSP) are commonly cited when justifying an OSP approach, yet holistic and methodical assessments of the applicability and overall benefit of these solutions, to a particular project, have
Nick Blismas +2 more
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Scientific Reports, 2023 High-story residential structures and off-site prefabrication have been dominant choices in the construction industry. There is a substantial quantity of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions produced by the construction industry.
Yuliang Guo +3 more
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Estimating carbon emission of rigid pavement: a case study of Palur Flyover [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2020 All construction activities will inevitably produce CO2 emissions from the production process of materials, transportation, the usage of plant and equipment, the construction process, up to building demolition.
Utomo Dwi Hatmoko Jati +3 more
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BIM-Based Management System for Off-Site Construction Projects
Applied Sciences, 2022 Offsite construction (OSC) is one of the alternative methods for the various challenges that the construction sector faces today. This study developed a management system based on building information modeling (BIM) to execute OSC projects successfully ...
YeEun Jang, JeongWook Son, June-Seong Yi
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An off-site construction readiness maturity model for the Indian construction sector [PDF]
Construction Innovation, 2020 Purpose This paper aims to present an off-site construction (OSC) readiness maturity model for assessing the readiness of offsite construction companies in the Indian construction sector. Design/methodology/approach The research was conducted in three stages.
Rana, Muhammad Qasim +4 more
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