International Conference on Construction and Real Estate Management 2016
Flow-Oriented Contracting in Industrialized House-Building
Publication: ICCREM 2016: BIM Application and Off-Site Construction
ABSTRACT
Industrialized house-builders in Scandinavia, using prefabrication of timber frame modules, have developed platforms to manage design, off-site production and on-site assembly within flow oriented organizations. A whole sales commitment gives time, cost, and quality benefits for house-building companies and also a clear product offer to clients. To meet the contracting and design process within the variety of clients, standardized procurement processes are developed to meet both internal production flow parameters and external demands, from clients and local planning authorities. The study of a flow oriented contracting process shows how industrialized house production parameters and end customer demands could be combined in contracting phase with clients and local planning officers. The study also describes how industrialized house-builders could communicate internally future projects into a flow oriented process by visualizing demand parameters for each project that meet or deviates from platform variables.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This work was carried out within the research project ATTRACT. We gratefully thank the interviewees at the case study company for their time and inspiration. This work was funded by the Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation (VINNOVA).
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ICCREM 2016: BIM Application and Off-Site Construction
Pages: 111 - 116
Editors: Yaowu Wang, Ph.D., Professor, Harbin Institute of Technology, Mohamed Al-Hussein, Ph.D., Professor, University of Alberta, Geoffrey Q. P. Shen, Ph.D., Professor, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and Yimin Zhu, Ph.D., Professor, Louisiana State University
ISBN (Online): 978-0-7844-8027-4
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Published online: Aug 14, 2017
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