| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/M72579/01 |
| Title: |
KNOWLEDGE/EXPERIENCE TRANSFER FROM PREFABRICATION OF BUILDING SERVICES TO CONSTRUCTION DESINERS & CLIENTS |
| Principal Investigator: |
Mawdesley, Dr M |
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| Department: |
Sch of Civil Engineering |
| Organisation: |
University of Nottingham |
| Scheme: |
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| Starts: |
18 October 1999 |
Ends: |
17 April 2002 |
Value (£): |
216,710
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| Construction Ops & Management |
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Off-site manufacturing (or prefabrication) for building and infrastructure type construction is claimed to benefit customers by increasing the quality of the work, reducing the uncertainty and reducing the overall cost of projects. It is also claimed to reduce and simplify maintenance and to extend life-cycles whilst reducing life-cycle costs.The overall objectives of this work are to increase the use of off-site prefabrication in these sectors of the construction industry by collecting the knowledge of leading exponents of prefabrication and providing it, in a useable form, to the rest of the industry. This will help designers to produce designs which take advantage of prefabrication techniques and demonstrate their benefits in quantitative as well as qualitative terms. This will enable the decision s to whether or not to prefabricate to be made scientifically.The project will initially concentrate on the provision of services and structure to buildings by means of large prefabricated units. The knowledge which will be collected and used will include: design methods for prefabrication; on-site erection time, resources and methods for prefabrication; on-site time and resources for traditional build equivalents; and quality measures. The project will produce the knowledge in a useable form and employ CDs for dissemination.
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http://www.nottingham.ac.uk |