John Meiling

Research project: Industrialised house builders work with prefabrication of building parts for later assembly at the building site. The degree of prefabrication ranges from manufacturing open walls and floors up to producing entire volume modules with complete interior cladding. This production form should be well suited for implementing experience feedback, since control is already required in production. But Quality control and assurance procedures applied in manufacturing cannot usually be readily applied in construction, where there are higher degrees of uniqueness in each project. Industrialised housing companies have the potential to take full advantage of quality management, but they need to shift focus from project-based to process-based production. The project aim is to explore how continuous improvement through experience feedback could be applied in timber framed module construction in Sweden.