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Just Released: Industrializing the Residential Construction Site Phase III: Production System

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Construction of homes in the US has reached record highs over the last few years. While the home building industry has made incredible advances in materials and quality, it still lags behind other industries in technological innovation in production. Three years ago, HUD began an ongoing research project to address this crisis. While much of HUD’s technological research work looks at building materials, HUD realized how important construction processes are for homes and homebuilders. Ways to automate home construction processes, to improve construction workflows, and to coordinate construction sites became a new research focus. This ongoing exploration opens an entirely new approach to helping homebuilders and building trades understand how their work is structured and how it can be improved.

“Phase III: Production System” explores the impact of such information breaks on actual workflow. A variety of technical and managerial approaches are studied that will lead to more rapid construction production, with better planning and coordination, and with more efficient material and labor use.

This report is the third phase of a multi-year project titled “Industrialization of the Residential Construction Site.” The overall goal of this project is to identify, map, and refine the overall process of information transfer between parties engaged in residential construction. Accomplishing this task will lay essential groundwork for the application of fully integrated information and production resource planning systems similar to those in use by the manufacturing sector of the economy. These integrated information/inventory/ production systems have underpinned significant increases in quality while decreasing time-to-market and production costs.

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