Application of Design for Excellence (DfX) in construction
Published on 27. January 2022
128 pages
978-1-80382-486-4 (ISBN)
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This ebook is about Application of Design for Excellence (DfX) in construction
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Content
- Intro
- Guest editorial
- Application of Ddesign for Eexcellence (DfX) in construction
- Paper 1: Indicators bank for smart and resilient cities: design of excellence
- Paper 2: DfX- -based approach for incorporating sustainability in infrastructure project planning
- Paper 3: Automation in New Zealand's off-site construction (OSC): a status update
- Paper 4: Empirical investigation of the applicability of constructability methods to prevent design errors
- Paper 5: Design for maintainability tool for nano-façade- coating applications on high-rise facades in the tropics
- Paper 6: Allocating scarce financial resources effectively through function analysis in social housing projects
- Paper 7: Designing for construction procurement: an integrated Ddecision Ssupport Ssystem for Bbuilding Iinformation Mmodelling
- Indicators bank for smart and resilient cities: design of excellence
- Introduction
- Methodology
- Selecting the indicator systems
- Exploring and understanding of each indicator system
- The New Zealand resilience index (NZRI)
- The Australian natural disaster resilience index (ANDRI)
- Code for smart communities (CSC)
- International telecommunication union (ITU-T) smart cities' indicators
- Creating the indicator bank
- Structuring the proposed indicators bank
- Classification of resilience and smart indicators
- Discussions and conclusion
- References
- A DfX-based approach for incorporating sustainability in infrastructure project planning
- Introduction
- Research background
- Methodological approach
- A DfS-based planning approach for infrastructure projects
- Conceptual basis
- Available strategies and contribution
- Feasibility stage
- Cost-benefit analysis
- Design stage
- Value-based design development
- Use of building information modeling (BIM) as life cycle platform
- Design buildability review
- Procurement stage
- Sustainability-driven procurement
- Contractor involvement in design
- Aggregated contribution matrix
- Conclusion
- References
- Automation in New Zealand's offsite construction (OSC): a status update
- Introduction
- Automation for OSC
- Barriers to the uptake of automation in offsite construction
- Enablers of automated offsite construction
- Methodology
- Demographic information of interviewees
- Results and discussion
- Status of automation in New Zealand
- Constraints to automation uptake in New Zealand
- Automation improvement opportunities in New Zealand
- Framework for automation adoption in New Zealand
- Conclusion
- References
- Empirical investigation of the applicability of constructability methods to prevent design errors
- Introduction
- Literature review
- Constructability and design
- Design errors - empirical evidence
- Constructability methods/tools
- Literature review - closing comment
- Method
- Research stages
- First stage: connecting basic problems to constructability methods
- Second stage: exploring project context
- Basic problem vector
- Grade for constructability methods according to project context
- Results and discussion
- Basic problem vectors for the selected projects
- Priorities for implementation of constructability methods in the projects
- Conclusion
- Limitations and recommendations for further study
- References
- Design for maintainability tool for nano-façade coating applications on high-rise facades in the tropics
- Introduction
- Nanostructured titanium dioxide façade coatings
- Design for maintainability (DfM)
- Methods
- Discussion of findings
- Survey results from the 91 practitioners
- Experts' survey results
- Developing the design for maintainability tool using sensitivity analysis
- The level 1 main criteria
- The sub-criteria of maximizing performance criterion
- The sub-criteria of the climatic conditions sub-criterion
- The sub-criteria of the design considerations sub-criterion
- The sub-criteria of the maintenance considerations sub-criterion
- The sub-criteria of the environmental considerations sub-criterion
- The result of all level 3 sub-criteria
- Summary of findings
- Design for maintainability (DfM) tool for nano-façade coatings
- Conclusion and research implications
- Note
- References
- Allocating scarce financial resources effectively through function analysis in social housing projects
- Introduction
- Value management
- Function analysis
- Research method
- Findings
- Problem awareness
- Suggestion
- Development
- Determination of the project to be studied
- End-users value identification
- Product design breakdown into compartments and spaces
- Allocation of resources to compartments and spaces
- Association of value parameters to compartments and spaces
- The Mudge technique
- Compare Method
- Compartments and spaces breakdown into functions and classification of functions
- Cost reallocation cycle
- Update of design plans and budget
- Evaluation
- Conclusions
- References
- Designing for construction procurement: an integrated Decision Support System for Building Information Modelling
- Introduction
- Background
- digital decision support tools in construction
- Methodology
- Stage one theoretical conceptualisation
- Stage two case studies
- Stage three model formulation
- Results of theoretical conceptualisation
- Case study results
- Model development
- The utility function definitions
- Integration and model architecture
- Conclusion
- References
