Knowledge management for off-site construction
Jul 18, 2024
Improving Performance and Collaboration for Offsite Construction through Learning between Projects and Knowledge Reuse
Summary: Offsite construction (OSC) is a promising solution to address the housing affordability and supply challenge in New Zealand (NZ). However, most OSC is still ‘new’ and untested in NZ and cannot effectively reduce costs, time and risks, which hinders the broader use of OSC across the country. It has been revealed both in the literature and by interviewing industry experts that OSC knowledge learnt from previous projects is highly valuable to new projects; however, currently the designers, engineers and contractors do not effectively capture and reuse knowledge from existing projects. In this project, we propose to affect industry-wide behaviour change for capturing and reusing OSC knowledge, through developing an open OSC knowledge base, a best practice guideline and multiple case studies. Additionally, a longitudinal survey will be conducted to evaluate how effective the proposed knowledge base and guideline can affect OSC professionals’ behaviour change on knowledge reuse. Funder: Building Research Association of New Zealand (BRANZ) Team: Yang Zou (PI), Johannes Dimyadi (Codify Asset Solutions), Brian H.W. Guo (University of Canterbury), Roy Davies (University of Auckland), Lixin Jiang (University of Auckland) Duration: 2023-2025
Jan 1, 2023
Automated Building Code Compliance Checking for Prefab Designs - Key Barriers and Recommendations
Summary: Prefabricated building is a promising solution to address the housing affordability and supply challenge in New Zealand (NZ). However, the current audit of prefabricated buildings for compliance with Building Code follows a manual, error-prone and time-consuming process, leading to the challenge of meeting timely delivery expectations. In recent years, some automation efforts have been observed internationally to improve the productivity and performance of Building Code compliance processes. We propose to investigate what lessons NZ can learn from these international efforts. The project aims to identify key barriers and provide recommendations for adopting automated Building Code compliance checking for prefab designs in NZ. It will carefully analyse selected international and NZ cases that deliver automated Building Code compliance checking and focus on transferring evidence-based knowledge and experience to NZ. To validate the proposed recommendations, it will then implement the latest automated code checking technologies on two real NZ prefab designs. Funder: Building Research Association of New Zealand (BRANZ) Team: Yang Zou (PI), Johannes Dimyadi (Codify Asset Solutions), Brian H.W. Guo (University of Canterbury), Eleni Papadonikolaki (UCL) Duration: 2019-2022 This is an external link to the research project in Build Magzine
Jan 1, 2019