This post is an excerpt from the paper, “Industrialization of the Construction Industry,” by Dr. Perry Daneshgari and Dr. Heather Moore of MCA Inc.
An important study by the National Research Council, “Advancing the Competitiveness and Efficiency of the U.S. Construction Industry” identified solutions for breakthrough improvement of productivity.
Five Key Areas for Productivity Improvements in Construction
- Widespread deployment and use of interoperable technology applications.
- Improved job-site efficiency through a more effective interface of people, processes, materials, equipment, and information.
- Greater use of pre-fabrication, pre-assembly, modularization, and off-site fabrication techniques and processes.
- Innovative, widespread use of demonstration installations.
- Improved performance measurement to drive efficiency and support innovation.
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These findings are very much in line with what the manufacturing industry had realized after the advent of industrialization. The Industrial revolution, which started in mid 1700, led to an increase in population due to the first time in the human history that production levels were higher than self-consumption of the working man.
With higher population also came new markets and customers. The production facilities had to become more productive.
