Prefabrication

TL;DR: In this article, a feasibility analysis of prefabrication in construction activities is provided based on a questionnaire survey and a financial analysis is also investigated by a local case study, which shows that wastage generation can be reduced by up to 100% after adopting prefabrics, in which up to 84.7% can be saved.

TL;DR: An ongoing study on the use of prefabrication in buildings and its impact on waste reduction in Hong Kong revealed that construction waste reduction is one of the major benefits when using prefabrica compared with conventional construction.

TL;DR: In this paper, a survey of US experienced practitioners including clients/developers, engineers, contractors, and precast concrete manufacturers was conducted to capture their perceptions on the importance of the criteria and the ranking analysis of survey results showed that social awareness and environmental concerns were considered as increasingly important in construction method selections.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors quantify the embodied energy of modular prefabricated steel and timber multi-residential buildings in order to determine whether this form of construction provides improved environmental performance over conventional concrete construction methods.

TL;DR: In this paper, different alternatives for shear connectors (bolts and headed studs) are analyzed to gain better insight in failure modes of shear connector in order to improve competiveness of prefabricated composite structures.