Systems Engineering Toolkit for DfMA in Infrastructure
This toolkit aims to provide systems engineering principles, tools and pointers fordeveloping configurable product platforms for Design for Manufacturing andAssembly in infrastructure. https://blogs.imperial.ac.uk/csei/files/2020/09/SE-toolkit_v.2.0.0.pdf
Platforming for industrialized building: a comparative case study of digitally-enabled product platforms
Digitally-enabled product platforms are becoming prominent approaches for industrialized building. Such a platform is a collection of common and stable modules and interfaces that can derive products effectively using digital delivery. The usage of construction product platforms has been studied in the existing buildings literature; however, there is relatively less on firms’ strategies of platform […]
Long-standing themes and new developments in offsite construction: the case of UK housing
This paper reviews the evolution of offsite construction methods in UK housing over the past 15 years and puts this in an international context. Long-standing themes include targets for construction productivity, challenges of labour shortages and skills, desire to learn across sectors and a need to develop new business models. Newer developments include research and […]