Parts in building construction projects : definition and case study
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- The Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry's productivity rate is lower than the manufacturing industry. One primary cause is the limitation in understanding of detailed input products. This thesis intends to help construction project teams apply successful manufacturing experience and manage construction projects from a basic input product point of view. It points out the importance of building parts and defines a part as "any entity that requires an act of installation to become a component in the final building product". This definition emphasizes the LEAN concept of value and focuses on on-site installations, which are direct value-adding activities. The author categorized parts into discrete and non-discrete parts to quantify parts and conducted a case study to estimate the number of parts in a seven-floor hotel. The result showed a range of 3.2 to 4.6 million parts with more than 90% of the parts not identified in Building Information Models (BIMs). This discrepancy makes it difficult for construction crews to plan and be efficient every day since they need the detailed information about the input products to ensure availability of all materials needed. This thesis points out that identifying and quantifying parts will help the AEC industry understand its projects and their parts. This knowledge of parts is also necessary in evaluating prefabrication benefits, or adopting manufacturing strategies such as LEAN for the production of detailed parts to improve productivity. In the next step, the author plans to study different part attributes, such as temporary work needed and part-related productivity data, to support construction teams using the parts concept in project management.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2015 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Zhao, Nanyu |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. |
| Advisor | Fischer, Martin, 1960 July 11- |
| Thesis advisor | Fischer, Martin, 1960 July 11- |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Nanyu Zhao. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Engineering)--Stanford University, 2015. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2015 by Nanyu Zhao
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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