#61 Building Productivity – Product, Process, People
The common adage “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it” can be applied to building
products, processes and projects. Current data capture in construction practice is typically scarce,
inaccurate, lagging and non-standardised. Through the lenses of product, process and people,
Project #61 investigates how the capture, analysis and use of data can contribute to waste
reduction, quality assurance, safety, and improvement of efficiency and effectiveness in the building
industry. The project aims to understand:
(1) What is impact of people (human factors/aspects) on the process and product efficiency?
(2) What kind of data is needed?
(3) When is it to be collected and by whom?
(4) Which methodologies, tools and technologies would be best suited?
Project leads: Dr Duncan Maxwell, Dr Rachel Couper
Project team: Dr Victor Bunster, Dr Lee-Anne Khor, Dr Laura Harper, Dr Camilo Cruz Gambardella, Dr Sahar Soltani, Dr Yihai Fang, Prof. Amrik Sohal, Mohaimeen Islam, Fernando Pavez Souper, Miyami Pathiranage
Lead researcher
Industrialisation
- Building Materials & Systems
- Building Design and DFMA
- Product & Process Efficiency
- Construction Management
- Contracts and Procurement
- Supply Chain Management, Logistics
- Platforms and Process
- Digital Project Management
Building Materials & Systems
Theme coordinator
Dr Rackel San Nicolas
Projects
#123 Ready-to-Use Fire and Acoustic Certified Solutions for Off-the-Shelf CLT Construction
#115 Performance, Productivity and Carbon Benchmarking of a Distributed Prefabricated Construction System
#116 MMC Pathways for Youth Housing Delivery
#58 The Retrofit Housing Atlas
#76 Thermally active floor panels for cost effective space cooling
Building Design and DFMA
Projects
#115 Performance, Productivity and Carbon Benchmarking of a Distributed Prefabricated Construction System
#116 MMC Pathways for Youth Housing Delivery
#110 Circular design strategies for future-proofing building services
#112 Flexible wet cores for volumetric housing construction
#71 Automated decision making for interdisciplinary coordination during early-stage building design
Construction Management
Theme coordinator
Dr Mehrdad Arashpour
Projects
#115 Performance, Productivity and Carbon Benchmarking of a Distributed Prefabricated Construction System
#104 Development of a solution for high-rise mass timber residences through a Post & Plate system – Phase 2 Numerical and experimental investigation
#68 Development of a solution for high-rise mass timber residences through a Post & Plate system – Phase 1 feasibility study
#21 Regulatory Reform for Industrialised Building
#61 Building Productivity – Product, Process, People
Platforms and Process
Theme coordinator
Dr Duncan Maxwell
Projects
#109 Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Digital Traceability Pilot
#115 Performance, Productivity and Carbon Benchmarking of a Distributed Prefabricated Construction System
#110 Circular design strategies for future-proofing building services
#112 Flexible wet cores for volumetric housing construction
#90 Evaluating the effectiveness of roofing work inspection using remotely piloted aircraft systems
Digital Project Management
Projects
#109 Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Digital Traceability Pilot
#55 Towards smart contracts and smart finance in construction – Phase 1
#93 US Research Tour 2024: San Francisco and Greater Bay area
Light House Project #28: The application of computer vision to measure productivity and enhance safety on construction sites
#61 Building Productivity – Product, Process, People