Meeting the Burden of Proof with Case-Study Research

Taylor, John E.; Dossick, Carrie Sturts; Garvin, Michael J.

doi:10.1061/(asce)co.1943-7862.0000283

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“…Architects are still the critical specifiers in today's off-site construction industry. Indeed, architects continue to be held responsible for productivity and quality problems because of their lack of understanding, or even appreciation, of building construction (Fox, Marsh and Cockerham, 2002;Harding, 1999;Soubry, 2001). Although most research on OSP targets the attitudes and practices surrounding the uptake of OSP, there is limited understanding of the philosophical issues underpinning OSPrelated architecture.…”

Section: Background: the Purpose Of Understanding Architects' Philosomentioning

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“…It has long been recognized in both the manufacturing industry (Peck, 1973) and the construction industry (Emerson, 1962) that productivity and quality can be improved by integrating production-related best practice into designs (Fox, Marsh and Cockerham, 2001). Applying methodologies and evaluation metrics from the manufacturing industry to the construction industry should be advantageous (e.g., Blismas et al, 2005;Blismas andWakefield, 2009, Blismas et al, 2005;Dean andSusman, 1989, Emerson, 1962;Fox, Marsh and Cockerham, 2001;Fox, Marsh and Cockerham, 2002;Gibb, 2001;Ji, 2011;Peck, 1973).…”

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“…The constraints include unreliable, unquantifiable, unpredictable, fragmented, unique, and repetitive processes and program, high initial and setup costs, incompatible regulations, poor skills and knowledge, traditional industry and market culture, and incompatible supply chain and procurement. Several research projects have been conducted to identify the factors that drove or constrained the uptake of OSP (e.g., Blismas et al, 2005;Bottom et al, 1994;Sparkman et al, 1999, Gibb, 2000Fox, Marsh and Cockerham, 2001;Gibb and Isack, 2003;Housing Forum, 2002;Neale, Price and Sher, 1993).…”

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“…Examples include the research and development of building industrialisation in China ( Ji, 2011); off-site manufacture in Australia (Blismas and Wakefield, 2009); prefabricated residential building in Hong Kong ( Jaillon and Poon, 2009); prefabrication, preassembly, modularization, and off-site fabrication in the United States (Song et al 2005); the development of prefabricated house building in Japan (Barlow and Ozaki, 2005); off-site manufacturing housing in Germany (Venables and Courtney, 2004); off-site modern methods of construction in U.K (Pan, Gibb and Dainty, 2007) and the research project ' Adding value to construction projects through standardisation and pre-assembly' funded by CIRIA (Construction Industry Research and Information Association) in UK (Gibb, 2001). These investigations analysed and summarized the state and context of OSCM in different countries.…”

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Insights into Architects’ Future Roles in Off-Site Construction

Luo

Zhang²,

Sher

2017

CEB

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Today’s construction industry is overflowing with new ideas about its future. Off-Site Manufacture and Construction (OSCM) is at the heart of the modern construction industry. Much has been written about the state and context of OSCM in different countries regarding its perceived benefits and barriers to implementation. Off-site production (OSP) plays an important role in improving fragmented construction processes. Although most OSP research targets the attitudes and practices of OSP adoption, there is limited understanding of the philosophical issues underpinning OSP-related architecture. The roles of the architects’ personal philosophies are neglected and this hampers their implementation of OSCM (which has had a largely technical focus). This paper explores the traditional thinking patterns of architects in China and predicts possible future roles for them. It then conceptualizes an “architectural work” mode and a “building product” mode of design and construction and identifies the shortcomings of architects in an OSCM environment. The arguments made are based on practitioners’ perceptions and the first author’s practical experiences of leading several real-life projects in recent years. The findings reveal the implications and significance of the transformation from an “architectural work” mode to a “building product” mode. We foresee a study approach that focuses on the order and rules for OSCM, resulting in architects’ existing mindsets being changed to thinking patterns and design methodologies better suited to OSCM.

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Section: Background: the Purpose Of Understanding Architects' Philosomentioning

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Section: Background: the Purpose Of Understanding Architects' Philosomentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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2017

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“…However, most instances are essentially descriptive with only a minority attempting to provide a basis for generalizing from each set of results. Taylor et al [23] offer a checklist to provide more structure and rigor in conducting case studies with the goal of deriving what they call theoretical generalizations. The authors conclude that the necessary first step is to make very clear both the research question that the case study is meant to illuminate and the unit of analysis, which is often not easy to define since cases are typically unique and site-specific.…”

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Resources for Sustainable Economic Development: A Framework for Evaluating Infrastructure System Alternatives

Duchin

2017

Sustainability

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Abstract:We are at an early stage of a massive global build-up of public infrastructure. Long lifetimes, high money costs and resource-intensity, and the rippling effects of the built environment on all aspects of daily life call for informed public conversation about the available choices before they become a fait accompli. Substantial literatures address the phenomenon in terms of economic development, resource scarcities, impacts on climate and ecosystems, technological options, human rights, funding sources, system governance, inter-governmental agreements. This paper describes a modeling framework that integrates some of these concerns about the differential impacts of large-scale centralized infrastructure systems, smaller-scale decentralized systems, and hybrid combinations. Building on existing collaborations between economists and engineers, the paper proposes a case-study research strategy to organize new types of technical information to supplement existing databases of the world economy. The paper describes needed model extensions to estimate money costs, resource requirements, resource recovery potential, and jobs and livelihoods under alternative infrastructure assumptions. The agenda supports the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by identifying and evaluating globally relevant alternative infrastructure designs. The SDG process, in turn, provides both the global network and the concern to promote local development to which the proposed effort aims to contribute.

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Meeting the Burden of Proof with Case-Study Research

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Insights into Architects’ Future Roles in Off-Site Construction

Insights into Architects’ Future Roles in Off-Site Construction

Resources for Sustainable Economic Development: A Framework for Evaluating Infrastructure System Alternatives

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