This book provides an overview of the latest innovations in
prefabrication. It analyzes how digital, material, and process
innovations are transforming the mass prefabrication of homes,
schools, and offices into mass customization. It provides an
understanding of available manufacturing processes, including
distributed ownership of manufacturing, platform approaches, and
robotics. It discusses how the integration of cutting-edge advanced
construction techniques, coupled with robotic manufacturing and
assembly from the earliest stages of building system design, has the
potential to unlock new formal and technical paradigms. Investigating
the impact of prefab in the context of climate emergency, the book
analyzes the capacity and shortfall in delivering net zero emissions.
It discusses the opportunities that Modern Methods of Construction
provide to enable the transition towards circular constructions, from
reuse to retrofitting. Including the users' experience, it
demonstrates the importance of developing methodologies for capturing
users' occupancy evaluation, as a means for understanding real
performances, benchmarking indicators, and tuning systems to target
the long-term well-being of the occupants. Referring to a plethora of
emblematic cases, this work demonstrates the importance of investing
in research and development to optimize construction systems, reduce
material use, facilitate lean construction, advance mechanical and
environmental performances, and move toward circular systems to close
the loop. This book is aimed at practitioners, architects,
technologists, researchers, and students in architectural engineering.
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Modern Methods of Constructions from Experimentation to Manufacturing
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9783031733277
Publisert
2024
Utgiver
Springer Nature
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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