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Strategies for integrating the use of off-site production technologies in house building
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posted on 2015-06-10, 12:29 authored by Wei Pan, Alistair Gibb, Andrew DaintyDespite extensive research into attitudes and practice surrounding the uptake of off-site production technologies, there is limited understanding of how best to integrate their use into business processes at the organizational level. Drawing on an action-research case study with a leading U.K. house-building organization, this paper scrutinizes the processes through which off-site technologies were adopted and utilized. The use of off-site methods was fundamentally framed by the key stages and business milestone reviews of the house-building process, which together represented a complex and multilayered structure of business management. Five off-site reviews were aligned with the business processes. Strategies for integrating the use of off-site technologies are examined. It was crucial to establish an overall off-site strategy and integrate it into the process from land acquisition on. Organizational learning embraced the adoption of off-site methods, whereas extra reporting and management efforts introduced bureaucracy. Culture change was commonly perceived as difficult and painful. Earlier engagement with supply chains was advocated for favoring the off-site approach and improving business efficiency, whereas it also demanded greater commitment of the house builder to specific supply chains and therefore exposed the business to risks associated with planning and market changes. The strategies should facilitate building companies’ strategic management of off-site technology.
History
School
- Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Published in
JOURNAL OF CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT-ASCEVolume
138Issue
11Pages
1331 - 1340 (10)Citation
PAN, W., GIBB, A. and DAINTY, A., 2012. Strategies for integrating the use of off-site production technologies in house building. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 138 (11), pp. 1331 - 1340.Publisher
© American Society of Civil EngineersVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
2012Notes
This article was published in the Journal of Construction Engineering and Management [© ASCE] and the definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)CO.1943-7862.0000544ISSN
0733-9364Publisher version
Language
- en