posted on 2010-05-13, 09:21authored byWei Pan, Alistair Gibb, Andrew Dainty
The increasing demand of housing supply in the UK drives the industry to consider
using more alternatives of build systems. However, the selection of build systems
appears to be normally left to late design stages, which may expose the business to
undesirable risks. This paper aims to improve build system selection by introducing a
transparent structured decision support matrix. A number of interviews with leading
housebuilders were used to examine the decision criteria and establish mechanisms of
selection. These firms, together, contribute a tenth housing unit completions by the
industry overall. The paper develops the matrix which provides over 50 value-based
criteria for system selection and methods for calculating weights of criteria and scores
of systems. The matrix can be used as a tool for system selection in early design
processes, which should help improve efficiency and mitigate risks for housing
construction.
History
School
Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Citation
PAN, W., GIBB, A.G.F. and DAINTY, A.R.J., 2008. A decision support matrix for build system selection in housing construction. International Journal for Housing Science and Its Applications, 32(1), pp. 61-79.