Japanese Building Design and Construction Technologies

Webster, Anthony C.

doi:10.1061/(asce)1052-3928(1993)119:4(358)

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“…This has resulted in Toyota developing a new approach towards lean production, use of plant, management resources, quality control and relationship between producers and consumers [3,9]. The great influence of the highly successful manufacturing system in Japan has resulted in researchers from US and UK coming to Japan to learn from the Japanese experience [3,10,11]. Unlike the other countries, majority of the Japanese construction research is conducted by private institutes; with the 'big-six' Japanese contractor; Kajima, Kumagai-Gumi, Obayashi, Taisei, Takanaka and Shimizu where the companies provide an annual contribution of 1% of their turnover to research and development [10].…”

Section: Similarity Of Prefabrication In the Construction Industrymentioning

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Status of Industrialized Building System Manufacturing Plant in Malaysia

Azman¹,

Ahamad²,

Majid³

et al. 2011

JCEST

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The trend construction industry have move from project based to product based in term of long term investment. Industrialized building system (IBS) in Malaysia is defined as a construction system where components are manufactured at factories on or off site, transported and then assembled into a structure with minimum work. IBS also is known as off-site construction or prefabrication. Thus, IBS have the similarity drive and challenge with the United States (US), United Kingdom (UK) and Australia; and among the factors are skilled craft worker, fast track completion, cost and transportation. United States, United Kingdom and Australia have achieved modular building standard while Malaysia still in the hybridization stage. The Malaysian government and researcher have promoted the modern method construction industry to break the ‘traditional technology’. Anecdotally, the total number of IBS manufacturing plant has increased from 21 in 2002 to 143 factories in 2010. From the evolution of the IBS manufacturing component, the most favorable system used in the IBS component is the precast concrete system and followed by the steel framing system.

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Section: Similarity Of Prefabrication In the Construction Industrymentioning

confidence: 99%

Status of Industrialized Building System Manufacturing Plant in Malaysia

Azman¹,

Ahamad²,

Majid³

et al. 2011

JCEST

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“…Building monomer energy conservation design,mainly contain all building parts energy conservation construction design,rational building interior space median design,some new material for energy conservation application,and new high technology equipments using,to use present outwall microclimate environmental conditions better,improve the present inwall microclimate,and conserve huge energy [7].…”

Section: Building Monomer Energy Conservation Designmentioning

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Discussion about the Application and Importance of Building Energy Conservation in Building Design

Hu¹,

Wang²

2010

AMR

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Along with developing at top speed of city construction, building energy consnmption rises substantially,and the huge building energy consnmption has been became heavy relieve of economic social development.In the realm of superstructure, specially in the building design link, conserve energy overall has great significance.The paper mainly discuss about energy conservation design of regional space integration or external environment, energy conservation design of building monomer,and new energy-efficient technology or material for energy saving application in building design,and so on.

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“…Despite recognizing that challenges exist, scholarly contributions are scarce for overcoming them through data-based research and recommendations (Shide, 2015;Ishida et al, 2016;Yoshikai et al, 2018). Not many studies have been conducted on the nature and peculiarities of the Japanese general contractors themselves, with some attempting to clarify their practices during the bubble period of the late 1980s when they aggressively expanded into overseas markets (Bennett et al, 1987;Webster, 1993). In the 21st century, however, since they are no longer seen as an international threat, research on Japanese general contractors remains largely internalized by those involved in them (Ogasawara and Yashiro, 2018;Suzuki and Sui Pheng, 2019).…”

Section: Introduction 1foreseen Problems In the Japanese Aec Industrymentioning

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Keystone players in collaborative building information modeling — form of contribution in Japanese large-scale projects

Ishizawa¹

2022

ITcon

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The stagnation of construction productivity is becoming increasingly serious in Japan with the decreasing construction workforce. Although BIM has attracted attention to overcome this problem, its adoption has not progressed among small organizations. Expanding the BIM use should be driven by the influence of large organizations. This paper stratifies users by cross-analysis using BIM log mining, a newly emerging analytics approach based on Autodesk Revit, combined with recorded software session times of other software to improve the shortcomings of the existing method. The target company, a Japanese general contractor, where external dispatched personnel accounted for most BIM activities, needed to recognize permanent employees who undertake the crucial role in promoting cooperative BIM projects termed the keystone BIM players. The machine learning-based clustering algorithm and visual analytics discovered a group of collaborative users whose intensity of software use was weaker than proficient users but who provided a substantial proportion of the team's workforce, including multiple applications. The semi-structured interviews as a verification process further clarified that they positively perceive collaboration with external BIM operators; while delegating most tasks, they strive to improve their own BIM knowledge to respect equal collaboration. The methodology provides an indispensable dashboard to improve the project BIM communication, which is the pivotal factor in influencing the further utilization of BIM in the whole industry. The contribution of the research is threefold; the extended BIM log mining technique, the discovery of keystone BIM players, and the exclusive focus on the cooperative relationship in the BIM project environment.

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Japanese Building Design and Construction Technologies

Cited by 5 publications

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Status of Industrialized Building System Manufacturing Plant in Malaysia

Status of Industrialized Building System Manufacturing Plant in Malaysia

Discussion about the Application and Importance of Building Energy Conservation in Building Design

Keystone players in collaborative building information modeling — form of contribution in Japanese large-scale projects

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