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Just Released: Technology Roadmap: Advanced Panelized Construction, 2003 Progress Report, and Technology Roadmap: Whole House and Building Process Redesign, 2003 Progress Report

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The Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing
(PATH) is pleased to present two new Technology Roadmap
Progress Reports: Advanced Panelized Construction, and
Whole House and Building Process Redesign.
These reports demonstrate PATH's progress in these two
arenas since the 2002 reports covering year-one
activities.

The PATH program is focused on improving the
affordability and value of new and existing homes.
Through public and private cooperation, PATH is working
to improve energy efficiency, environmental impact,
durability and maintenance, hazard resistance, and labor
safety. To accomplish this, PATH has identified priority
strategies and activities that will enable government and
industry to jointly fulfill the PATH mission. This
priority-setting process is referred to as roadmapping.

Advanced panelized construction is a building process
that uses pre-built components such as wall sections.
PATH's vision for advanced panelized construction is to
develop building panels that perform multiple functions
and integrate multiple tasks into a single process or
step.

The participants in this roadmapping process identified
three strategies for achieving the vision:

1. Develop Advanced Building Panel Design;
2. Establish Common Standards, Specifications, and
Interfaces; and
3. Improve Production, Delivery Systems, and Site
Assembly.

As a starting point, the roadmap focuses these strategies
on improving and developing panel technology for use in
load-bearing exterior walls. The roadmap discusses
several activities under each strategy, including
projected timeframe and cost. The report also discusses
new technology being used in the development of building
panels, and addresses the barriers and challenges facing
advanced panelized construction.

Whole-house design is seen as a system in which specific
products, materials, and construction methods that may
involve just one part of the house actually can have
impacts throughout the entire structure. The guiding
vision for whole-house and building process redesign is
to build better homes faster and at lower cost.

In order to help achieve this vision, the report
identifies the following strategies:

o Influence the change process of the building industry;
o Industrialize the homebuilding process;
o Improve the constructability of homes; and
o Create better living environments.

For each of these strategies, the report presents various
activities, along with their projected costs and
timeframes.

In addition to these new strategies and activities, the
report discusses the barriers and challenges to the
whole-house approach, and provides updates to the 2002
Progress Report based on additional input gathered from
builders, remodelers, manufacturers, and local
governments, among others.

PATH Technology Roadmap: Advanced Panelized Construction,
2003 Progress Report, is available on the web at
https://www.huduser.gov/portal/publications/destech/tech_roadmap_APC.html


PATH Technology Roadmap: Whole House and Building Process
Redesign, 2003 Progress Report is available at
https://www.huduser.gov/portal/publications/destech/tech_roadmap_WHouse.html


Both reports can be obtained in printed form for a
nominal charge by calling HUD USER at 1-800-245-2691.
https://www.huduser.gov/portal/publicationsallatoz?title_begins=t

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