Parkwood Building Systems Case Study 2022

Parkwood Building Systems
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Executive Summary
Parkwood Building Systems is a promising trend of the modular home and housing in designing of
homes and for the construction market. It is being embedded in practice of the modular construction.
The case study report on Parkwood Building Systems revealed the benefits of using this new
innovative technology in the field of construction so that it becomes a sustainable and energy efficient
solutions for the homeowners to build their homes. There is a cost savings of around 30-40% in
addition time savings of around 50%. Savings on both time and cost lead people to have interest in
using the building system. Apart from time and cost, Parkwood Building Systems provides benefits in
reduction of waste, increase in quality, construction safety and reduction of strain on the construction
site. Apart from the benefits, the limitations of Parkwood Building Systems are technical failures in
size and building context, economical issues of immature business models in addition social
limitations associated to dishonor as well as work politics. The quality of the construction work comes
from the components of the building and built properly with the exact project specifications. This type
of construction reduces consumption of energy of building work and provides sustainability.
1. INTRODUCTION
1.1.Company Name
Parkwood is an Australian Company, involved to build homes using high-tech technology, drive built
complex at Somersby on New South Wales Central Coast. The specialists of the company maintains
significant standards of the quality control at each stage of the production. The company is established
in the year 1988, with many years of experiences within the industry. Parkwood Company is
developing range of the 1-2 bedroom granny flats, 2 to 6 bedrooms homes, Smart Pods for the
manufactured homes. It has strong foundations into the commercial projects include security
buildings, schools, mobile offices and sports clubs and others (Parkwood Homes 2019).
1.2.Project Name, Description
The project taken for Parkwood Building Systems is residential modular homes. Parkwood Homes is
delivering array of the modern home designs customized to suit with the client’s requirements. With
vast array of the designs as well as an angle towards the modern architecture, the modular home is
increasing at faster rate, as it becomes a new way to get the dream home built in faster way
(parkwoodhomes.com.au 2019).
2. THE PROBLEM(S)
The problem is that the traditional home plan used for building of homes takes long time. The
procedure for the designing and building work requires more time and needs highly skilled designers
and builders for designing purpose of the homes. Long time for the construction takes more
construction, labor in addition to materials cost and therefore the entire process becomes more
expensive. The main problems related to traditional home designing method is lack of skilled workers,

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long scheduling, lack of interaction and change in minds of the homeowners regarding home designs
(Al-Maskari et al. 2017). The traditional home plan is limited the designers to select building materials
available for the area and community. It forces the home designers to alter the plan and limit the
selection of the materials for the home design. This problem provides effect on ability of homeowner
to have type of home as per their desires included usage of the sustainable materials to design a green
as well as energy efficient homes. When looking at the traditional home plan, a homeowner should
permit the designer to bring other design as well as building systems to meet with their requirements
(Srivastava et al. 2017). In order to overcome with the problem, an innovative technology is discussed
in this paper- Parkwood Building Systems, it is a modular building technology followed the
requirements of the clients.
3. THE INNOVATION(S)
The Parkwood Building Systems is an innovative technology for building of residential modular
homes. It contains string structure that can make the home building work more durable as compared to
the traditional method. Prefabricated houses are required to meet with the design requirements of the
homeowner. The modular home is taking shorter time for the construction and home design as it
builds less than two months at the factory. The reason behind shorter construction duration is
automation, great teamwork as well as great repeatability. Assemble of the construction site is taking
few days (Louis-Joseph and Lesot 2019). This building system is innovative for the professionals and
homeowners as it has high quality of both building as well as designing work. Reason behind it is its
detailed shop drawings of the modular homes as compared to the traditional homes. The modular
homes are very detailed as well as elaborated so that the homeowners can get to know about its design
and materials used. Apart from time, modular homes are highly health as well as safety, therefore it
increases quality of the work. As the construction process is short, therefore it requires low cost for the
investor (Zhu 2018). There is no required to pay any rent for social rooms. The modular home system
maintains sustainability in their building and designing process. Acoustic of the modular home is
better as compared to other method. In the prefabricated house, each of the module is separated. The
modules are to be connected in house, mainly protected from the noise and also energy and
environmental efficient.
4. OUTCOME – LIST SPECIFIC BENEFITS INCLUDING ANY DATA ON SAFETY,
QUALITY, COST, OR SCHEDULE
The Parkwood Building Systems is unique as the homes are built in the climate controlled factory. The
building work reduces chances of the weather related project delays as well as problems. The modular
housing construction is allowed various options as well as designs and the builder is required to work
as per the client’s requirements. The builders offered the homeowners with list of house plans and they
have to select from the list of the styles. The homeowners are also provided offers to customize the
home as per their selection and desires (Hui, Sherratt and Sánchez 2017). As per the state building
codes, there is also possibility to upgrade the construction specifications, design of the floor plans,
pick for the styles of the windows and siding and other fixtures.
The modular homes are built with better quality of construction, where the modular homes are being
built in the factory. The manufacturers are able to use tools unavailable to site manufacturer like
custom factory-made jigs to make sure that walls, floors as well as ceilings are to be square as well as
plumb. In this case, the interior walls are to be lag-bolted to exterior walls as well as insulation is to be
installed on the electrical outlet boxes (Sun et al. 2019). Quality engineering as well as modern
construction methods can cause increase in the energy efficiency of the modular homes. It ensures that
it is economical and also comfortable for living in regards to weather. The modular homes using
Parkwood Building Systems uses two-by-six framing of the walls. The modular homes are less air
infiltration, is considered as causes of the heat loss in the home (Oliveira et al. 2017). The
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