House-Building Business Models and Off-Site Construction Take-Up

Pan, Wei; Goodier, Chris I.

doi:10.1061/(asce)ae.1943-5568.0000058

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“…According to Pan and Goodier [13], the UK construction industry has seen the benefits of OSM adoption that include reductions in time, defects, health and safety risks, environmental effects, and whole-life cost and consequently has seen increase in sustainability, productivity, whole-life performance, and profitability.…”

Section: Osm: An Overviewmentioning

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Current State of Off-Site Manufacturing in Australian and Chinese Residential Construction

Khalfan

Maqsood

2014

Journal of Construction Engineering

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Many techniques have been implemented to make construction industry more productive. The key focus is on reduction of total duration, reduction in construction cost, improvements in the quality, achieving more sustainable development, and safer construction sites. One of the techniques, which is emerging in the last two decades, is the use of off-site manufacturing (OSM) within the construction industry. Several research projects and industry initiatives have reported the benefits and challenges of implementation of OSM. The focus of this paper is Australian and Chinese residential construction industry and the uptake of the OSM concepts. The paper presents a brief review of the current state of OSM in the last five to seven years with the context of the above-mentioned two countries. The paper concludes that the construction industry, both in Australia and China, needs to start walking the talk with regard to OSM adoption. The paper also highlights some of the research gaps in the OSM area, especially within the housing and residential sector.

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Section: Osm: An Overviewmentioning

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Current State of Off-Site Manufacturing in Australian and Chinese Residential Construction

Khalfan

Maqsood

2014

Journal of Construction Engineering

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“…at the levels of corporate, subsidiary firm and project) reflects the business models of most large private housebuilders in the UK which operate in multi-regions under a group banner (Ball 2010;Callcutt 2007). The similar business models of the companies prompt them to perceive and take up offsite production technology in their businesses in a similar manner (Pan and Goodier 2012), which offers grounds for generalizing the results of this case study to a wider context.…”

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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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“…The benefits of the increased industrialisation of the housebuilding process will become more recognised and accepted by consumers, builders, regulators, lenders and policy-makers. Land use planning, unless with dramatic changes, will, however, continue acting as a determinant force, driving housebuilding organisations in relation to their house type designs, innovation and technology takeup, hence influencing and driving significantly the relationship between housebuilding and manufacturing (Pan and Goodier, 2011).…”

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Briefing: Future trends in UK housebuilding

Goodier

Pan

2012

Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Municipal E

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Homes have more influence on the way that people live and behave in society than anything else they spend their money on. A house usually represents an individual's largest ever single investment, and is expected to last for decades, if not indefinitely. In order to make the most appropriate investment today, however, people need to know how they will be living and working in the future, both individually and as a society. A Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) report The Future of UK Housebuilding, published in December 2010, investigates and debates this issue. This briefing discusses the implications of the report for municipal engineers and others. In particular, the issues of sustainability, zero carbon dioxide, offsite technologies, technology changes and community impact are discussed. Homes for people: the futureFuture housing requirements are qualitative and reflect changing aspirations, values and tastes. A critical uncertainty of the future is whether the UK's population -possibly in the future comprising a more diverse mix of cultures and backgrounds -will continue to follow this same pattern of attitude to housing, or whether society's attitudes will change, leading buyers, occupiers and hence suppliers to make different choices. Future patterns of development will be driven by demographic, economic, socio-cultural, political, technological and environmental factors. According to the CLG Live Table 401, the number of households in the UK has been projected to gradually increase, from the current 27 million to 33 million by 2031 (CLG, 2010). The population is projected to continue rising and the average household size is decreasing. The Live Table 402 shows that one-person households accounted for 19% of overall households in 1971, but that share increased to 33% by 2010 (CLG, 2010). The vast majority of future housing stock in the next few decades is already in place now. The form and make-up of individual households will continue to change, modes of living, working and leisure time will continue to interweave, and consequently future housing will need to be more flexible and adaptable than it is today. Houses currently account for 82% of dwelling stock in England, while the split between houses and flats in new-build in recent years has presented a trend towards equilibrium, reaching 50/50 in 2008/2009 as indicated in the Live Table 254 ( CLG, 2010). Construction techniques and regulations (both local planning and national building regulations) will need to acknowledge and enable this increasing flexibility, while the suitability (and adaptability) of the existing housing stock will become an increasingly important factor.Many of these issues are discussed in a report recently published by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) (Goodier and Pan, 2010). This report discusses a number of UK housebuilding scenarios for the next 10-20 years, in order to provoke deliberation and encourage more strategic thinking within the industry and among policy makers and other stakeholders....

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House-Building Business Models and Off-Site Construction Take-Up

Cited by 109 publications

References 26 publications

Current State of Off-Site Manufacturing in Australian and Chinese Residential Construction

Current State of Off-Site Manufacturing in Australian and Chinese Residential Construction

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

Briefing: Future trends in UK housebuilding

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