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Exploration of prefabricated building system in housing construction

Journal of Building Materials and Structures, 2021
The main purpose of this paper is to examine the development and current status of prefabrication       techniques and their application in building construction and why its use is still limited in the housing sector in India and why prefabrication is ...
Neha Gupta, Mohammad Arif Kamal , Tejwant Singh Brar   +2 more
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PRIVATE DEVELOPERS’ PERCEIVED USEFULNESS OF THE PREFABRICATION TECHNOLOGY IN NIGERIA’S HOUSING DEVELOPMENT INDUSTRY

Mağallaẗ Al-kūfaẗ Al-handasiyyaẗ, 2022
Private developers in Nigeria’s housing development industry still face challenges of increasing housing stock, with a current housing deficit of 20 million units.
ENITAN NGOZI OLOTO, ANTHONY C. IWEKA
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Carbon Analysis, Life Cycle Assessment, and Prefabrication: A Case Study of a High-Rise Residential Built-to-Rent Development in the UK

Energies, 2023
Recent research relating to energy use and carbon emissions by buildings has started to move from operational energy carbon impacts to the embodied energy/carbon impacts of buildings, and the methods and approaches used in architectural design to reduce ...
Dilek Arslan, S. Sharples, H. Mohammadpourkarbasi, Raheela Khan-Fitzgerald   +3 more
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Specific Skill Requirements within Prefabricated Residential Construction: Stakeholders’ Perspectives

Buildings, 2022
Skill availability is an important component in the uptake of prefabrication and plays a crucial role in housing supply. However, the challenge is that the demand for housing has outgrown the availability of specifically trained workers.
Funmilayo Ebun Rotimi, Firas Majthoub Almughrabi, Don Amila Sajeevan Samarasinghe, Chathurani Silva   +3 more
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Examining the Adoption of Prefabricated Construction Methods for Building Housing in Egypt [PDF]

Journal of Engineering Research - Egypt, 2022
Prefabricated construction methods have become a key strategy to achieve sustainable development in building housing around the world. However, these methods are still used in a narrow context in building Egyptian housing.
Nermeen Hatata, Maher El-nemr, Fatma Agrama   +2 more
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Prefabrication Implementation Potential Evaluation in Rural Housing Based on Entropy Weighted TOPSIS Model: A Case Study of Counties in Chongqing, China

Sustainability, 2023
Prefabrication as a sustainable construction method has become a trend for use in house construction. However, the construction of rural houses in China still mainly adopts on-site construction, which also raises wasteful resources and environmental ...
Jing Shi, Jiaqing Sun
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The Carbon Emission Assessment of a Building with Different Prefabrication Rates in the Construction Stage

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2022
The utilization of prefabricated components is taken as a potential way to reduce carbon emissions from the construction industry, and the prefabrication rate may be a factor that influences the mitigation efficiency.
Qingye Han, Jun-Hee Chang, Guiwen Liu, Heng Zhang   +3 more
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Barriers, Strategies, and Best Practices for BIM Adoption in Quebec Prefabrication Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs)

Buildings, 2022
Prefabricated construction has long faced problems due to the industry’s fragmentation. Building Information Modeling (BIM) has thus appeared as an efficient solution to provide a favorable environment for efficient completion of projects.
Basma Ben Mahmoud, N. Lehoux, P. Blanchet, Caroline Cloutier   +3 more
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Plug n Play: Future Prefab for Smart Green Schools

Buildings, 2018
While relocatable, prefabricated learning environments have formed an important component of school infrastructure in Australia, prefabrication for permanent school buildings is a new and emerging field.
Clare Newton, Sarah Backhouse, Ajibade A. Aibinu, Benjamin Cleveland, Robert H. Crawford, Dominik Holzer, Philippa Soccio, Thomas Kvan   +7 more
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Current State of Using Prefabricated Construction in Australia

Buildings, 2022
The Australian prefabricated construction market has been developing rapidly in recent years. New prefabrication-related technologies, materials, systems and services are also emerging in the current Australian market.
Zhiming Zhang, Yongtao Tan, Long Shi, Lei Hou, Guomin Zhang   +4 more
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