The topic of this diploma thesis is modular growing housing. The work is oriented towards the analysis of current housing issues and its possible solutions with the usage of serial production. The aim of the work is to design a flexible system of residential modules, which is able to adapt to the life changes, family situation and needs of its inhabitants through addition of new residential cells.

Cheung Chi Ling Becky. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 2005-2006, design report." / Chapter 01 --- STUDIES / Prefabrication Buildings Systems / Container Building Projects / Chapter 02 --- DESIGN PROJECT / Why Shipping Containers / Preliminary Site & Program / Basic Composition Study - The Unit & The Complex / Design Exploration / Five Selected Sites Studies / Final Design

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Building envelopes are perhaps the most influencing players on assuring indoor comfort conditions, in alliance with their impact on the sustainability and energy-efficiency of the building during operation. However, given the multitude of commercial solutions available on the market and the use of different criteria and inconsistent semantics among the existing categorization/classification systems of construction objects, there is still a need for uniformization of the many regarding the main Prefabricated Enclosure Wall Panel Systems (PEWPS) for building applications.In such context, this paper firstly explores the distinct categories of off-site Modern Methods of Construction (MMC), and how can they be classified. Secondly, focus will be given to panelized systems, where the classification of PEWPS is thoroughly investigated, the size and complexity of individual components have a significant impact on the ease of installation of a system. Larger prefabricated panels are typically heavier and bulkier, making transportation and erection more difficult. Smaller panels are made up of more and smaller a component, which increases the amount of on-site construction labor. In this paper, costs have been reduced by Stainless Steel 316This thesis has tried to devise a solution which balances the manufacture’s need to make a repetitive solution many times with an industry that generally designs a specific solution for each enclosure system.Customer-caused losses include inefficiencies such as frequent design and specificationmodifications, as well as delays due to missing approvals. The Lean Construction Institute hasaided in the transformation of the construction culture through the application of agile and leanphilosophies, principles, and techniques. This paper has highlighted the non-conformities at the organization and the NCR to curtail this to reduce costs and internal quality.

År efter år byggs det allt fler byggnader och med tanke på efterfrågan och behoven kommer det att fortsätta göra det framöver. Kommande åtta åren kommer Sverige att behöva bygga ca 600 000 nya bostäder för att möta hushållstillväxten. Trots medvetenheten om byggbranschens utsläpp och miljöpåverkan samt dess kostnader vid framtagning/tillverkning av nya byggnadsmaterial och fortsatt byggande, fortsätter det byggas på grund av bostadsbristen. Parallellt med byggandet pågår en världsomfattande klimatförändring, vilket lett till varmare temperaturer som orsakat naturkatastrofer etc. Sveriges bygg- och fastighetssektorn stod 2019 för hela 21,1% av Sveriges totala koldioxidutsläpp (CO2) som motsvarar 19,3 miljoner ton koldioxidekvivalenter, vilket motsvarar en femtedel av Sveriges totala utsläpp. Ett av de vanligaste byggnadsmaterialen att bygga stommen för ett flerbostadshus med är betong, där den domineras av två stommetoder, prefabricerad- och platsgjutenbetongstomme. 2020 tillverkades 80 procent av Sveriges flerbostadshus med en stomme av betong.Syftet med denna fallstudie är att jämföra skillnaden mellan betongstommetoderna platsgjuten betongstomvägg mot Prefab stomvägg med avseende på koldioxidutsläppen och ur kostnadsaspekten under byggskede A1-A5, detta för att underlätta valet för entreprenören att välja en lönsam stommetod som släpper ut mindre koldioxidekvivalenter.Denna studie har använt olika undersökningsstrategier för att stärka underlaget för empirin, det vill säga litteraturstudier och fallstudier, dokumentanalys, Livscykelanalys och kalkylering. För att besvara frågeställningarna och uppnå målet med fallstudien har sex olika projekt erhållna från Peab Bostad Syd undersökts med avseende på tillverkningsmetoderna massiva Prefab-, Semi-Prefab- och platsgjutna metoden. Livscykelanalys har undersökts med Byggsektorns Miljöberäkningsverktyg och där kostnadskalkylerna undersöktes med Excel med hjälp av MAP kalkyleringsunderlaget.Resultatet indikerar att den platsgjutna stomväggen ger upphov till utsläpp som är 53,5% respektive 75,3% mindre CO2e/m2 Bruttoarea än skalväggarna respektive massiva Prefabväggen. Resultatet indikerar också att den platsgjutna metoden släpper ut 60,4% CO2e/m3 betong mindre än skalväggarna och 84% CO2e/m3 betong mindre än den massiva Prefabmetoden. Den platsgjutna väggen blir 5,6% billigare än skalväggarna och 21,4% billigare än den massiva prefabricerade väggen per m2 bruttoarea. Den platsgjutna väggen blir 10,4% billigare än skalväggarna och 33,6% billigare per m3 betong för den massiva prefabricerade väggen.Slutsatserna ur studien är att den platsgjutna metoden medför mindre CO2 utsläpp och är ett billigare alternativ jämfört med de prefabricerade metoderna. Denna fallstudie iakttar produkt skedet (A1-A3) och byggproduktionsskedet (A4 och A5) för stomväggar av betong enbart. Denna fallstudie har undersökts med avseende på sex byggnader som har en geografiskplacering i södra Sverige, vilket inte tar hänsyn till norra Sverige som har en kallare temperatur. / Sweden's construction and property sector accounted for 21,1% of Sweden's total carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) in 2019, which corresponds to 19,3 million tons of CO2e. One of the most common building materials to build the structure of an apartment building with is concrete, which is dominated by two structural methods, prefabricated and cast-in-place concrete structures. In 2020, 80% of Sweden's apartment buildings were manufactured with concrete structures. The purpose of this study is to compare the difference between the concrete structure methods, cast-in-place concrete structure walls versus Prefab structure walls about CO2 emissions and from the economic aspect during the construction phase, the production phase, and the construction production phase A1-A5, to facilitate the choice for the contractor to choose a profitable structure method that emits less CO2e.The result indicates that the cast-in-place structure wall emits 53,5% and 75,3% less CO2e/m2 gross area than the semi-prefab and solid Prefab wall. The result indicates that the cast-in-place method emits 60,4% CO2e/m3 less concrete than semi-precast and 84% CO2e/m3 less concrete than the massive Prefab method. The cast-in-place wall will be 5,6% cheaper than the semi-prefabricated- and 21,4% cheaper than the massive prefabricated wall m2 gross area. The cast-in-place wall will be 10,4% cheaper than the semi-prefabricated- and 33,6% cheaper SEK/m3 concrete for the massive Prefab walls. The conclusions from the study are that the cast-in-place method entails fewer CO2 emissions and is a cheaper alternative compared to the prefabricated methods. This study observes the LCA stages A1-A5 for concrete structure walls only. This study has investigated about six buildings that have a geographical location in southern Sweden, which does not take into account northern Sweden, which has a colder temperature.

This thesis has been executed in cooperation with Abetong which is a leading company in the prefabrication of concrete structures. For a prefabricated concrete building the design engineer must take into consideration the connections between the concrete elements in order to make sure that the building will possess a sufficient structural stability. Therefore the structural engineer might have to re-calculate the original structure that often has been designed as an on site-built building. The purpose of this thesis is to examine the forces between elements related to different models to see if the structural engineer has to make a re-design. To get results for this study we have used FEM-design 3D Structure. The results of forces from the program were compared with Abetongs standard forces of point connections and recess lists and showed that the structural engineer can use the original calculation up to around five stories when a prefabricated shall be erected.

Thesis. 1976. M.Arch.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH. / Bibliography: leaves 181-185. / M.Arch.

Thesis. 1975. M.Arch.A.S.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. / M.Arch.A.S.

Thesis. 1975. M.Arch.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. / Bibliography: leaves 188-189. / by Michael S. Harris. / M.Arch.

Prefabricated and pre-stressed reinforced concrete beams and girders are integral components of many highway structures, including those built by rapid construction techniques. Concerns exist regarding the development of cracks during curing, form removal, detensioning, transport, installation, and operation. Non-destructive, Acoustic Emission (AE) sensing techniques have the potential for detecting and locating cracking in prefabricated, pre-stressed concrete girders used as Prefabricated Bridge Elements and Systems (PBES) used in rapid construction practices as part of a Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC) program. AE sensing records transient elastic waves produced by the release of stored elastic energy resulting in plastic deformations (i.e., crack nucleation and growth) with an array of point sensors. The AE instrument system is relatively portable which can allow for it to be an option for both off-site fabrication QA/QC as well as on-site field QA/QC. This thesis presents a multi-stage research initiative on acoustic emission monitoring of prefabricated and pre-stressed reinforced concrete beams used in highway bridge construction during detensioning, craned removal from formwork and transport to bridge sites, along with supporting laboratory tests and numerical analysis. The specific objectives of this research were to: 1. Identify suitable instruments to monitor pre-stressed and/or post-tensioned concrete girders for cracking activity; 2. Design and develop a reusable instrumentation package; 3. Measure performance and condition of concrete girders during fabrication and transport; and 4. Identify test protocols and possible accept/fix/reject criteria for structural elements based on information from monitoring system. Presented are results from laboratory, full-scale girder fabrication, and transport monitoring, along with overall conclusions and recommendations for future research.