posted on 2011-11-02, 14:03authored byChristine L. Pasquire, Alistair Gibb
This paper describes the findings of a six-month, pilot study funded by the EPSRC
under the Meeting the Client's Needs through Standardisation (MCNS) LINK
programme. The research explored the needs and opportunities for identifying and
evaluating the benefit of standardisation and pre-assembly to the construction
industry. The pilot study focused principally on pre-assembly in the Mechanical
sector, drawing data from both manufacturing and construction processes. A
principal aim of the study was to take a snapshot of how construction clients could
derive greater benefit from pre-assembly. This was much broader in concept than
the case studies within the Mechanical sector but nonetheless sufficiently related to
maintain cohesion in the research. The principal conclusions of the pilot study
were that:
1. No existing metrics were currently available to evaluate the benefits identified;
and
2. Without these metrics comparative design decisions were being made based on
capital cost or intuition alone.
History
School
Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Citation
PASQUIRE, C.L. and GIBB, A.G.F., 2002. Considerations for assessing the benefits of standardisation and pre-assembly in construction. Journal of Financial Management of Property and Construction, 7 (3), pp. 151-161