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From Mass Prefab to Mass Customization: Modern Methods of Constructions from Experimentation to Manufacturing

English

By (author): Ornella Iuorio

This book provides an overview of the latest innovations in prefabrication. It analyzes how digital, material, and process innovations are transforming the mass prefabrication of homes, schools, and offices into mass customization. It provides an understanding of available manufacturing processes, including distributed ownership of manufacturing, platform approaches, and robotics. It discusses how the integration of cutting-edge advanced construction techniques, coupled with robotic manufacturing and assembly from the earliest stages of building system design, has the potential to unlock new formal and technical paradigms.

Investigating the impact of prefab in the context of climate emergency, the book analyzes the capacity and shortfall in delivering net zero emissions. It discusses the opportunities that Modern Methods of Construction provide to enable the transition towards circular constructions, from reuse to retrofitting. Including the users' experience, it demonstrates the importance of developing methodologies for capturing users' occupancy evaluation, as a means for understanding real performances, benchmarking indicators, and tuning systems to target the long-term well-being of the occupants.

Referring to a plethora of emblematic cases, this work demonstrates the importance of investing in research and development to optimize construction systems, reduce material use, facilitate lean construction, advance mechanical and environmental performances, and move toward circular systems to close the loop.

This book is aimed at practitioners, architects, technologists, researchers, and students in architectural engineering.

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Will deliver when available. Publication date 08 Dec 2024

Product Details
  • Dimensions: 155 x 235mm
  • Publication Date: 08 Dec 2024
  • Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG
  • Publication City/Country: Switzerland
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9783031733260

About Ornella Iuorio

Ornella Iuorio is Associate Professor of Architectural Engineering at Politecnico di Milano. Formerly she was Professor and Chair of Architecture and Structures at the University of Leeds UK. She has been recognized as one of the Top 50 Women in Engineering: Invertors & Innovators by the Guardian in 2022 for the development of innovative lightweight and resilient construction systems with high structural performance and low embodied carbon which are finding broad applications in mass-manufacturing and seismic areas. With a portfolio of over £6M in research projects funded by Innovate UK EPSRC ESRC and the British Academy she has contributed to transforming the construction sector developing prefabrication digital and robotic fabrication and deconstruction strategies to deliver more sustainable constructions. Prof. Iuorio serves as an Editorial Member for the Springer Journal Architecture Structure and Construction and as a Member of the Management Board of the International Association of Structures and Architecture (IASA).

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