Structural Fabrication Techniques

Fabrication Vs. Assembly
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Fabrication Vs. Assembly
Annotated Bibliography
Fabrication vs Assembly in Australian Construction Projects
Chowdary, B.V., Richards, M.A., and Gokool, T., 2019. An integrated approach for
sustainable product design: concurrent application of DFMA, DFE, and CAD/CAE principles
and tools. Journal of Management for Sustainable Development, 4(4), pp.259-275.
In the Caribbean regions, manufactures have been facing the challenge of high manufacturing
costs in fabricating modern construction materials as they thrive on producing eco-friendly
and sustainable modular materials. Chowdary and associates present a review on the impact of
the fabrication and assembly of the modular materials in modern construction projects has
positively impacted the state of the Sydney’s environment and has proved to be more cost-
effective in overall construction cost. This article presents an integrated approach in achieving
sustainable modern structures through the use of design for environment DFE, computer-aided
engineering CAE, DFMA, and CAD as software tools in the fabrication and assembly of such
materials.
Gao, S., Jin, R., and Lu, W., 2019. Design for manufacture and assembly in construction: a
review. Building Research & Information, pp.1-13.
The three scholars in their review of various building resources and information reached a
conclusion to their study by producing an article that summarizes the research findings. The
journal titled design for manufacture and assembly in construction provides an insight into
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how manufactured or fabricated items and process has been of great help in facilitating the
construction process. On the other hand, they explained the most recent evolution in building
and construction space that is the use of ready to assemble modular structures to come up with
specialized buildings. They retaliated the importance of fusing BIM parametric design with
DFMA as the best and most appropriate way of optimizing on construction processes.
Gibb, A.G., 2019. Off-site fabrication: prefabrication, pre-assembly, and modularization. John
Wiley & Sons.
Dr. Gibb, in his book pre-assembly and modularization, enumerates a couple of reasons as to
why construction processes should adopt the modern construction techniques most so the use
of prefabricated construction materials that are ready for assembling. He cites that
modularization is a perfect construction method for residential homes and medium-rise
commercial structures as they are easy to assemble hence take a shorter time in installation
compared to conventional construction processes. She concludes by highlighting the benefits
of modular construction in modern construction projects as candid mode of project
management.
Mitchell W.J. 2015, Constructing Complexity. In: Martens B., Brown A.) Computer-Aided
Architectural Design Futures Springer, Dordrecht
In this publication, Mitchell defines and promotes the assembling of fabricating parts in
construction space. She adds that in the past, buildings were just materialized drawings but
currently with more innovations and technological advancements, its high time architects and
contractors to consider the adoption of modern construction project techniques in order to
achieve perfect project management. She gives an explicit definition of construction and
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