Divergent open industrialization strategies for pretentiously sustainable building construction
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https://doi.org/10.3989/ic.08.050Keywords:
Industrialized construction, production processes, construction components, pre-packaged construction, supports, sustainabilityAbstract
The paper analyzes the main trends and particularities of building industrialization processes in place in developed countries, among which two stand out as icons of business success: Toyota in Japan and IKEA in Sweden. It discusses a number of diverse strategies with little in common in practice, but which concur in their theoretical approach, in particular with respect to three paradigms that are configured more as declarations of intent than practical realities: the questioning and revision of all that has been done to date (re-thinking); open, lightweight industrialization as opposed to closed and heavy construction (open and light; off-site); and the use of assembly-based solutions (prepackaging).
The paper, a reflection based on recent literature, dissects certain trends in place in very different geographies and under very different circumstances with no other common interest than the universal aspiration to attain a somewhat diffuse ideal: sustainability. It concludes with a series of the authors’ reflections and conclusions drawn from a vantage geared to the here and now, on the grounds of a detailed analytical study of the state of the art in the years lapsing since the beginning of the present century.
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