Industry 4.0 Smart Prefabrication Yard for Modular Construction Fitout
Grant Data
Project Title
Industry 4.0 Smart Prefabrication Yard for Modular Construction Fitout
Principal Investigator
Professor Pan, Wei
(Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI) (for projects led by other university))
Co-Investigator(s)
Huang Guoquan George
(Project coordinator)
Duration
60
Start Date
2023-05-01
Amount
428571
Conference Title
Industry 4.0 Smart Prefabrication Yard for Modular Construction Fitout
Keywords
Industry 4.0, Prefabricated modules, Digital Twin / IoT / CPS, Production and Logistics, Fitout construction
Discipline
Production and ManufacturingTransportation
HKU Project Code
R7036-22
Grant Type
Research Impact Fund (RIF) 2022/23
Funding Year
2022
Status
On-going
Objectives
(1) To innovate and investigate roles of setting up a prefabrication yard for Hong Kongprefabricated housing production supply chain (i) to facilitate Just-In-Time cross-border logistics ofconstruction modules and fit-out materials, and (ii) to enable and synchronize off-site and on-site(O2O) fit-out operations management.(2) To investigate how smart technologies and solutions such as Internet of Things (IoT) / DigitalTwin (DT) / blockchain (BC) / cyber-physical systems (CPS) / Building Information Modelling(BIM) can be used to develop Industry 4.0-compliant smart prefabrication yard for enabling cyberphysical and spatial-temporal information visibility and traceability among different stakeholders.(3) To set up pathways for the substantiation, outreach and delivery of research impacts through (i)industrial impact pilots; (ii) a lab testbed with ""what you see is what you get"" facilities; (iii) technicalcodes, adoption roadmap, policy and regulations, good practice cases; and (iv) whitepapers,handbooks and case stories for workshop training of practitioners and experiential learning inaddition to traditional research outputs such as high impact publications.