Agility Assessment Tool for Modular and Offsite Construction (MOC) Organizations
Publication: Construction Research Congress 2024
ABSTRACT
Offsite fabrication has been proposed as a critical component of the effort to industrialize the construction industry and close its performance gap with the manufacturing industry due to its positive impact on project schedule, cost, safety, and quality. Agile manufacturing is considered a successful way for manufacturing and assembling products. However, tools of lean manufacturing and lean construction are the main applied tools in the industry and academic research for modular and offsite construction. Manufacturing firms recognized the importance of responding quickly to market demands in a cost-effective way. However, it is difficult to determine if an organization is agile or not and its level of application for agility principles. The importance of determining the level of application for agility principles, enablers, drivers, capabilities, and metrics helps in driving further the agile culture for any organization. This paper proposes an agility assessment framework for modular and offsite construction based on existing literature for agile manufacturing. This simplified assessment tool integrates the agility enablers (AE) and capabilities (AC) into a single group of competencies to describe the MOC external (enablers) and internal (capabilities). Validation of proposed framework was conducted using Delphi technique by interviewing eight executive experts from the MOC industry. It is concluded that acquiring agile certification by MOC professionals benefits the industry.
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