Modular Construction: Advantages and Disadvantages

Modular Construction 1
Construction in Practice 1
By
(Name)
(Course)
(Professor’s Name)
(Institution)
(State)
(Date)

Modular Construction 2
Table of Contents
1.0 Introduction.........................................................................................................................................3
1.1 Methods of Modular Construction.....................................................................................................4
1.1.1 Permanent Modular Construction...................................................................................................4
1.1.2 Relocatable Buildings.....................................................................................................................4
1.1.3 Enclosures...................................................................................................................................5
2.0 Advantages and Disadvantages of Modular Construction...............................................................5
2.1 Advantages.......................................................................................................................................5
2.1.1 Reduced Budget of construction.................................................................................................5
2.1.2 Increased Quality........................................................................................................................6
2.1.3 Improved Safety.........................................................................................................................6
2.1.4 Reduced Program........................................................................................................................7
2.1.5 Reduced Social and Environmental Impact................................................................................7
2.1.6 Increased Possibility of Construction..........................................................................................8
2.2 Disadvantages..................................................................................................................................8
2.2.1 Need for Extra Material..............................................................................................................8
2.2.2 Need for Extra Construction Effort.............................................................................................9
2.2.3 Need for Extra Coordination of Activities..................................................................................9
2.2.4 Reduced flexibility to design variations....................................................................................10
3.0 Discussion...........................................................................................................................................10
4.0 Conclusion..........................................................................................................................................11
Reference..................................................................................................................................................12

Modular Construction 3
1.0 Introduction
The accommodation demand at the culmination of World War II triggered the housing
market to grow and advance. The battalions returning from battle generally in the United States
of America and Australia were looking to procure a home fast and the construction business
could not put up with the plea. The scarcity in customary building headed to constructors eyeing
for lesser cost and well-organized construction. The prefabricated construction was the solution
to these insatiable wants (Jackson, 2011, p.7). Mobile household fabrication is the utmost
systematized and industrialized part of the factory-built accommodation business in Australia.
Manufacture of a movable home environment has escalated from a 1,200 unit output in 1929 to a
414, 000 unit output in 1970.
Modular construction is initiated on the basis where a structure is constructed from a
sequence of volumetric components, connected or hinged together to make a comprehensive
building. The components which are ready-made, completed and amassed off-site, under
controlled workshop settings, are then relocated to the erection site and raised into place.
Modular construction comprises segmental parts gathered in a workshop, moved by road and
mounted on a construction site to construct a modular building. Prefabricated parts have
conventional grid dimensions and are small sufficient to be transported by road are termed as
modules. The components on the prefabricated parts and components are set aside in a store at
the workshop. The modular structures are pulled together, moved and fitted by specifically
skilled experts. Modular parts and modules are prefabricated conferring to client’s requirement
(Jackson, 2011, p.10).

Modular Construction 4
1.1 Methods of Modular Construction
There are two types of Modular construction namely;
1.1.1 Permanent Modular Construction
Permanent Modular Construction is an advanced, workable building supply technique that
makes use of offsite, lean industrial approaches to manufacture single or multi-story entire
construction answers in deliverable component units. Permanent Modular components can be
joined into site erected developments or stand self-sufficiently as a turn-key resolution and can
be provided with Mechanical, plumbing, and electrical, fittings and interior polishes in; less
period, reduced wastage, and greater eminence regulator equaled to developments using only
onsite-built structure. Recent analysis has emerged backing the point that prefabricated
construction is a proficient construction mode and noble to aid the construction industry to
propagate.
1.1.2 Relocatable Buildings
A Relocatable Building (RB) is a somewhat or exclusively pulled together structure that
abides with pertinent codes of practice and is built in a building manufacturing facility by means
of a prefabricated construction process. Relocatable structures are intended to be reused a
number of times and repositioned to diverse building scenes. They are utilized in schools,
construction site, wellbeing clinics, commercial centers, and anywhere a relocatable structure can
offer a short-term space necessity. These buildings offer economical reconfiguration, fast
provision, ease of repositioning, speeded devaluation plans and massive pliability. Relocatable
structures are built in pact with builder’s fixing procedures and restricted code necessities. These
structures are vital in situations where promptness, short-range space, and the capability to
reposition are essential.