Review of Prefabricated Buildings: A Bibliometric Analysis from 2012 to 2022
Publication: ICCREM 2023
ABSTRACT
Prefabricated building as an emerging way of production is gaining increasing attention from practitioners and researchers. Given the rapid advancement of prefabricated building research and the high efficiency, short period and low cost superiority in construction process, a state-of-the-art review of implementations and research in this field is needed. It is aimed to provide an objective and extensive bibliometric analysis of the published articles on prefabricated building for the period of 2012–2022. CiteSpace (basic) software was used to conduct co-citation analysis, co-occurrence analysis, and cluster identification on 780 identified articles. The results show that six research clusters (e.g., prefabricated construction, life cycle assessment, and supply chain management) were essential in the development of prefabricated buildings. The results highlight the evolution of prefabricated building research in both civil engineering and project management, revealing the underlying structure of this cross-cutting research area. Analysis has also been done to summarize the status quo of prefabricated building in the technology and management field and provides some promising research directions.
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ICCREM 2023
Pages: 708 - 720
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Published online: Nov 30, 2023
ASCE Technical Topics:
- Architectural engineering
- Building management
- Buildings
- Business management
- Computer programming
- Computer software
- Computing in civil engineering
- Construction costs
- Construction engineering
- Construction industry
- Construction management
- Freight transportation
- Infrastructure
- Life cycles
- Logistics
- Offsite construction
- Practice and Profession
- Project management
- Structural engineering
- Structures (by type)
- Supply chain management
- Transportation engineering
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