New Publication Provides Construction Industry Insight

A NEW informative book, aimed at construction industry professionals, has been published by Jack Goulding and Farzad Pour Rahimian.

Construction Industry Insight

The book, Offsite Production and Manufacturing for Innovative Construction, builds on a number of initiatives, including formative findings from literature, research and development and practice-based evidence (success stories). It also presents new ideas from leading experts in the fields of: design, process, construction, engineering, manufacturing, logistics, robotics, delivery platforms, business and transformational strategies, change management, legislation, organisational learning, software design, innovation and biomimetics.

Each of the chapters contain original findings, all of which culminate in three ‘Key Learning Points’. The publication also informs readers of the wider issues affecting the offsite market, from the need to embrace societal challenges, through to the development of rich value-laden solutions required for creating sector resilience.

Content includes a balance between case studies and practice-based work, through to technical topics, theoretical propositions, pioneering research and future offsite opportunities ready for exploitation.

Topics covered include:

• Stakeholder integration
• Skills acquisition
• New business models and processes
• Circularity and sustainable business strategies
• Robotics and automation
• Innovation and change
• Lean production methodologies and new construction methods
• Design for Manufacturing and Assembly
• Scaled portfolio platforms and customisability
• New legal regulatory standards and conformance issues
• Offsite feasibility scenario development/integration