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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Prefabricated Construction"”.
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An Enhanced Comparative Life Cycle Assessment Approach for Evaluating The Energy Consumption and Carbon Emissions of Prefabricated Construction Methods
Construction is one of the largest industries which have a significant impact on the environment. It is known that concrete has been the second most consumed material - only after water - in the world for years. It has been estimated that buildings and construction account for 37% of energy related …
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Low cost housing in West Africa, a housing program with a method of light prefabricated construction for a West African capital, Dakar.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Thesis. 1967. M.Arch.
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Prefabrication and the individual
… on the two sites (the specific), and a new prefabricated construction system was developed in response. The universal acts as a platform for the individual; the prefabricated components are combined with sitebuilt elements, both systems having their role to play in the evolution of life on a …
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Prefab the FabLab : rethinking the habitability of a fabrication lab by including fixture-based components
… delivery methods; within that variation has been prefabricated construction. Numerous examples, academic and professional, have demonstrated the benefits of prefabrication construction and as result this delivery method has gradually become more attractive to those considering alternative building …
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Universalism and Its Discontents: Konrad Wachsmann's 20th Century Architecture
… the chief architect of one of the largest prefabricated construction companies in Europe, and a private practitioner, Wachsmann brought a particular line of prefabricated timber construction knowledge to the U.S., which he utilized in the development of military technologies as well as for …
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Developing an Integrated Design Support Framework to Enable Mass-Customisation in Multi-Storey Timber Building Projects
… choices for heterogeneous apartment demands in a prefabricated construction context. It intends to deliver marketable building products at a competitive cost close to mass-produced buildings. To maximise their benefits, mass-customisation strategies must be implemented from early design stages by …
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Rebuilding the Past, Sustaining the Future
By researching natural disaster displacement and the process in which we rebuild, I have found that by creating a modular prefabricate unit that is both cost efficient and easy to construct, we can significantly reduce the rebuild time, reduce people from leaving, as well as encourage new residents …
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CONTAINER CIRCUIT HOUSING FOR MIGRANT WORKERS
… the housing but does not intrude or hinder the construction. There is also the idea that the housing solution to be deployed on the site could scale up and down over the period of the project to suit the needs of the project for that period. Like for the start of the project where there is a …