International Conference on Construction and Real Estate Management 2016
Modularization Based on Commonalities in House-Building Requirements
Publication: ICCREM 2016: BIM Application and Off-Site Construction
ABSTRACT
Some of the requirements governing the design of houses are common between projects. This opens up for using modularization based on product commonalities. Though modularization is well known in the manufacturing industry, its use in house-building contexts is less studied. Even more scarce is research focusing on how requirement commonalities between one-of-a-kind products are found and managed in a modularization process. In this research, modularization from a requirements management perspective is empirically explored using a case study approach. Though the studied modularization process can be described as sequential, the process steps are highly interrelated, with overlaps and iterations. Commonalities are found by functional decomposition of the customer’s portfolio projects, tracing technical solutions back to their initial requirements. These are balanced with the customer’s requirements on the product and on the design automation tool. The requirement list is continuously updated based on portfolio analysis and communication of modularization results to the customer.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We would like to thank the employees at the case company who provided valuable knowledge and information to this research. We would also like to acknowledge the financial support provided by the research project Attract (Attractive and Sustainable Cities in Cold Climates) which is funded by Vinnova (Sweden’s Innovation Agency), HLRC (Hjalmar Lundbohm Research Center) and the participating companies.
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ICCREM 2016: BIM Application and Off-Site Construction
Pages: 126 - 134
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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