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Offsite manufacturing: Envisioning the future agenda
Goulding, Jack Pour Rahimian, Farzad
Goulding, Jack
Pour Rahimian, Farzad
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Off-Site Manufacturing (OSM) as a concept/approach is certainly not new, the origins of which rest in literature under various incarnations and typologies. Earliest examples include provision where “… a panelized wood house was shipped from England to Cape Ann in 1624 to provide housing for a shipping fleet” (Arieff, and Burkhart, 2003), through to the importation of housing in Australia (circa 1837), the delivery of Crystal Palace for “The Great Exhibition” in the United Kingdom (UK) (circa 1851), and for mainstream housing in the United States (US) with initiatives such as the Sears Modern Home “kit house” (circa 1908) and Lustron Home (circa 1945). However, there are several different terminologies in current use which describe OSM (Gibb and Pendlebury, 2006; Taylor, 2010); including: modern methods of construction, pod technology, off-site construction/fabrication/production, industrialised building systems, modular construction, pre-cast panels/foundations, volumetric/hybrid construction etc.
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Goulding, J. S. and Pour Rahimian, F. (2019) Offsite manufacturing: Envisioning the future agenda, in Goulding, J. S. and Pour Rahimian, F. (Eds.) Offsite Production and Manufacturing for Innovative Construction: People, Process and Technology. London : Routledge.
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9781315147321