A definition and valuation of the UK offsite construction sector

Taylor, Mark Dunlop

doi:10.1080/01446193.2010.480976

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“…The industrialisation of housing production have learned from other manufacturing processes and have gained benefits by managing the entire production system from supply-chain management to factory production to sales and on-site activities with adequate balance of standardisation and flexibility (Gann 1996). In fact, the off-site construction is seen to have paramount significance for the efficiency (Taylor 2010). 336 management · volume 13 Nevertheless, product configurability has been considered in the construction context with product family type decomposition that is opened to system and subsystem levels, and modules and components (Jensen, Lidelöw, and Olofsson 2015). Configurability of construction service products has not been discussed.…”

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Modelling of Construction Products and Services for Effective Productisation

Härkönen¹,

Tolonen²,

Haapasalo³

2018

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Modelling of construction products and services has major importance for effective productisation of construction companies' offering. Productisation refers to the process of analysing customer needs and defining the offering both commercially and technically so that the efficiency of the productisation can be repeated and the offering is possible to understand. Productised offering is possible to be sold, delivered and invoiced while the effectiveness of construction activities can be maximised. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the importance of modelling construction products and services to enable effective productisation of the offering. The study is realised as a combination of a literature review, analysing apartments and houses available by real estate search engines, and analysing constructors' descriptions on method of construction. The study applies the product structure concept. The results include presenting an example of modelling construction offering both as a product and as a service in a manner that enables effective productisation. The findings support productisation to have a role in systematising and tangibilising the construction offering and indicates commercial and technical modelling to support maximising the effectiveness of construction activities. The results support increasing the understanding over modelling construction offering and commercial productisation of the offering. The productisation differences of construction offering modelled as a product and as a service are on the side of technical implementation. Construction companies and managers can benefit of the results while considering modelling their offering and the related productisation logic.

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Modelling of Construction Products and Services for Effective Productisation

Härkönen¹,

Tolonen²,

Haapasalo³

2018

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“…The market value of offsite in UK construction is hard to determine, but has been estimated up to £6bn (see Taylor 2010), equivalent to a less than 6% share in UK construction with an annual output worth over £100bn (BERR 2008). A recent survey of leading UK housebuilders by Pan et al (2008) confirmed that the level of overall application of offsite in housebuilding was also low.…”

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Strategies for Integrating the Use of Off-Site Production Technologies in House Building

Pan

Gibb

Dainty

2012

J. Constr. Eng. Manage.

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Despite extensive research into attitudes and practice surrounding the uptake of offsite production technologies, there is limited understanding of how best to integrate their use into business processes at organizational level. Drawing on an action-research case study with a leading UK housebuilding organization this paper scrutinizes the processes through which offsite technologies were adopted and utilized. The use of offsite was fundamentally framed by the key stages and business milestone reviews of the housebuilding process, which together represented a complex and multi-layered structure of business management.Five offsite reviews were aligned with the business processes. Strategies for integrating the use of offsite technologies are examined. It was crucial to establish an overall offsite strategy and integrate it into the process from land acquisition on. Organizational learning embraced the adoption of offsite, while extra reporting and management efforts introduced bureaucracy. Culture change was commonly perceived difficult and painful. Earlier engagement with supply chains was advocated for favoring the offsite approach and improving business efficiency, whilst it also demanded greater commitment of the housebuilder 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 offsite technology.

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“…Introduction Much excitement surrounds off-site construction, as the introduction of techniques such as prefabrication and modularisation, over time, begin to resolve the productivity limitations of traditional on-site construction (Alazzaz and Whyte, 2012). The off-site construction industry is burgeoning; in the UK, for example the total gross output of the off-site construction sector rose from £2.3 billion in 1998 to £5.8 billion in 2008, albeit for only 2.1 per cent of the total value of construction activities (Taylor, 2010). A main reason for industry's endorsement of off-site production methods appears to be a perceived improvement in productivity (Bernstein et al, 2011).…”

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Linking employee empowerment with productivity in off-site construction

Alazzaz

Whyte

2015

Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management

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2015),"Risk perception and propensity in bid/no-bid decision-making of construction projects", Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, Vol. 22 Iss 1 pp. 2-20 http://dx.If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. AbstractPurpose -The purpose of this paper is to address current knowledge gaps in off-site sub-element fabrication efficiency factors, by identifying an explicit relationship between productivity and employee empowerment. Design/methodology/approach -The research is based on two engineering fabrication-yard case studies that investigate both qualitatively (via analysis of semi-structured interviews that incorporate a five-point Likert scale, with fabrication-product stakeholders), and also quantitatively (via assessment using SPSS statistical analyses to determine significance and trends in the data-set) the relationship between empowerment and productivity. Findings -The results reveal a positive linear relationship in off-site construction between "employee empowerment factors" and, explicitly fabrication-yard "productivity-levels". An especially strong and significant positive correlation is found to exist in resource development, worker involvement, process improvement, and task recognition as they refer to off-site construction productivity. Practical implications -Most academic studies of off-site construction remain largely anecdotal and lack an empirical objective study; as a result, this (fabrication-yard) case-study research provides a useful approach to measure empirically the link between employee empowerment and productivity of off-site construction. Originality/value -Employee empowerment in the construction industry has long been a focus of analyses; however, there remains a lack of consensus and very few studies into the direct relationship between employee empowerment on the one-hand, and productivity in off-site construction on the other-hand. It is argued here that the on-going new research undertaken in the present study will go beyond subjective opinion towards objective measurement of actual performance in off-site construction.

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A definition and valuation of the UK offsite construction sector

Cited by 79 publications

References 10 publications

Modelling of Construction Products and Services for Effective Productisation

Modelling of Construction Products and Services for Effective Productisation

Strategies for Integrating the Use of Off-Site Production Technologies in House Building

Linking employee empowerment with productivity in off-site construction

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