Offsite Production and Manufacturing for Innovative Construction

Jack S. Goulding is Professor of Construction Project Management at the University of Wolverhampton (UK) and Joint Coordinator of CIB W121: Offsite Construction. He works closely with industry developing new business models, strategies and change programmes, including technology transfer, organisational learning and offsite manufacturing. Farzad Pour Rahimian is an Associate Professor at Northumbria University (UK), with expertise in the mainstream areas of: BIM, IT Integrated Design and Construction, Virtual-Reality, Automation, Simulation and Optimisation. He has led various publicly funded research projects, supervised numerous industry-based PhD students and published more than 120 research outputs.

• 1Offsite Manufacturing: Envisioning the Future AgendaJack S. Goulding and Farzad Pour Rahimian2Offsite Construction Driving Forces: A Critical Reflection of Hofstede’s National Culture Model Yuedan Liu, Chao Mao, and Xiangyu Wang3Offsite Manufacturing: Discontinuous Challenges and Opportunities for Offsite Lifecycle Processes in Malaysia Rahinah Ibrahim and Ali Rashidi4Offsite Manufacturing in Construction: A Union of Business Models, Determinative Constructs, and Strategic AccomplishmentGary D. Holt5Industrialised House Building: Concepts and its Application in SwedenJerker Lessing and Lars Stehn6Design for Manufacture and Assembly in Offsite Construction and Relationship with Concurrent EngineeringMehrdad Arashpour7Demonstration of BERA Language-Based Approach to Offsite Construction Design Analysis Jin-Kook Lee and Charles M. Eastman8Scoping Potential of Virtual Reality and Offsite Manufacturing: Envisioning the Future Phillippa K. Carnemolla9Towards Optimising OSM Implementation in Construction Projects: A Sustainable Procurement PerspectiveAhmed W.A. Hammad, Monty Sutrisna, and Atiq Zaman10Productivity, Innovation and Disruption: A Study of Offsite Construction in the United States Ryan E. Smith and Ivan Rupnik11Core Offsite Manufacture Industry DriversRobert Hairstans and Tsvetomila A. Duncheva12Offsite Construction Capability and Sector Resilience in the UK: An Integrated Systemic Approach for Learning Wafaa Nadim13Innovative Robotics and Automation for Offsite ManufacturingBahriye Ilhan, Thomas Bock, Thomas Linner, Kepa Iturralde, Wen Pan and Rongbo Hu14The Impact of Organisational Learning and Change on Offsite ManufacturingChristian Thuesen and Baris Bekdik15Stakeholder Transformation in OSM Infrastructure ConstructionBryan Hubbard and Sarah M. Hubbard 16Core OSM Implementation StrategiesEdgar P. Small17Prefabricated Housing Firms in Japan and Sweden: Learning from Leading CountriesKaren Manley and Kristian Widén18Offsite Manufacturing Innovation in a Biomimetic FutureEhab Sayed19Optimising Offsite Manufactured Components in the UK House-Building Sector: Understanding the Legal and Contractual IssuesAndrew Agapiou20Rethinking Offsite Manufacturing for Disaster ResilienceNiraj Thurairajah, Gayan Wedawatta, and Nirooja Thurairajah21Developing and Diffusing a Timber-Based Multi-Storey Housing System: Moving Towards Offsite Manufacturing John E.A. Lindgren

"This book is an incredibly comprehensive and information-heavy book that is also a great tool to have to keep on top of recent advancements in the field of offsite production and manufacturing."-Jenna Collignon, Editor, Matrix Group Publishing