Industrialized and Automated Building Systems: A Managerial Approach

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Routledge, Sep 2, 2003 - Architecture - 484 pages
Industrialized and Automated Building Systems presents a detailed and balanced evaluation of the benefits and drawbacks of industrialized building systems, and considers technological, managerial and economical aspects of industrialization, automation in the industrialized building process in production, construction and design, and information technologies in design, production and construction on site.
 

Contents

Chapter 1 Industrialization and Automation in Building
1
Chapter 2 Building Systems and Components
16
Chapter 3 Coordination Between Producer and Designer
49
Chapter 4 Application of the Performance Approach
77
Chapter 5 Production Technology
104
Chapter 6 Prefabrication Plant
127
Chapter 7 Production Planning and Control
160
Chapter 8 Cost Estimating and Control
192
Chapter 10 Economic Aspects of Industrialization
233
Chapter 11 LongRange Planning of Prefabrication
261
Chapter 12 Automation in a Prefabrication Plant
283
Chapter 13 The Robot Technology
302
Chapter 14 Building Robotics
327
Chapter 15 Building Robotics
359
Chapter 16 New Trends and Developments
382
Index
406

Chapter 9 Quality Planning and Control
212

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