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Article: Modularisation strategies in the AEC industry: a comparative analysis
Title | Modularisation strategies in the AEC industry: a comparative analysis |
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Authors | |
Keywords | Modularisation architecture architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) top-down modularisation bottom-up modularisation |
Issue Date | 2020 |
Publisher | Taylor and Francis. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/taem20/current |
Citation | Architectural Engineering and Design Management, 2020, v. 16 n. 4, p. 270-292 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Many industries have benefited from modularisation; while in the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry, the concept of modularisation is associated with dimensional coordination. This has added to an already extensive list of challenges due to market size and the concept of economies of scale in AEC industry, to name but a few. Moreover, there is a myth that the AEC industry is bound to stay associated with build-to-order or made-to-order approach caused the AEC industry to restrict modularisation to the component level. This changes the balance in favour of what this paper calls a bottom-up approach. On the other hand, a valid alternative strategy – referred to in this study as top-down strategy – remains very much underexploited. The clients, therefore, do not have a neutral means by which they can assess which strategy is in their best interest. Likewise, if a construction company plans to make a strategic move towards the principles of modularisation and off-site manufacturing, they do not have clear decision support tools. This study investigates these two main modularisation strategies in the AEC industry to provide some examples of successful cases regarding how, when and where such strategy have been applied by different construction companies in different cases. The collected and collated empirical data and the results from the interviews will help clients and companies to analyse their own cases and make operational decisions on how, when and where to best utilise the bottom-up and top-down modularisation techniques while considering the pros and cons of such decisions. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/294814 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 2.7 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.622 |
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dc.contributor.author | Shafiee, S | - |
dc.contributor.author | Piroozfar, P | - |
dc.contributor.author | Hvam, L | - |
dc.contributor.author | Farr, ERP | - |
dc.contributor.author | Huang, GQ | - |
dc.contributor.author | Pan, W | - |
dc.contributor.author | Kudsk, A | - |
dc.contributor.author | Rasmussen, JB | - |
dc.contributor.author | Korell, M | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-12-21T11:48:57Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2020-12-21T11:48:57Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2020 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Architectural Engineering and Design Management, 2020, v. 16 n. 4, p. 270-292 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 1745-2007 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/294814 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Many industries have benefited from modularisation; while in the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry, the concept of modularisation is associated with dimensional coordination. This has added to an already extensive list of challenges due to market size and the concept of economies of scale in AEC industry, to name but a few. Moreover, there is a myth that the AEC industry is bound to stay associated with build-to-order or made-to-order approach caused the AEC industry to restrict modularisation to the component level. This changes the balance in favour of what this paper calls a bottom-up approach. On the other hand, a valid alternative strategy – referred to in this study as top-down strategy – remains very much underexploited. The clients, therefore, do not have a neutral means by which they can assess which strategy is in their best interest. Likewise, if a construction company plans to make a strategic move towards the principles of modularisation and off-site manufacturing, they do not have clear decision support tools. This study investigates these two main modularisation strategies in the AEC industry to provide some examples of successful cases regarding how, when and where such strategy have been applied by different construction companies in different cases. The collected and collated empirical data and the results from the interviews will help clients and companies to analyse their own cases and make operational decisions on how, when and where to best utilise the bottom-up and top-down modularisation techniques while considering the pros and cons of such decisions. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Taylor and Francis. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/taem20/current | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Architectural Engineering and Design Management | - |
dc.rights | Accepted Manuscript (AM) i.e. Postprint This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in [JOURNAL TITLE] on [date of publication], available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/[Article DOI]. | - |
dc.subject | Modularisation | - |
dc.subject | architecture | - |
dc.subject | architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) | - |
dc.subject | top-down modularisation | - |
dc.subject | bottom-up modularisation | - |
dc.title | Modularisation strategies in the AEC industry: a comparative analysis | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | Huang, GQ: gqhuang@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.email | Pan, W: wpan@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Huang, GQ=rp00118 | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Pan, W=rp01621 | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/17452007.2020.1735291 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85081354070 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 320652 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 16 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 4 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 270 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 292 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000518714500001 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | - |