What is Industrialized Construction?

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So first, let me define industrialized construction.

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It's the application of manufacturing techniques to the built environment.

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Now, listen, I know if you're gonna be an architect one day, you didn't hear me say "you" in that word, right, construction, but you're there.

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Make sure you heard the words, "built environment".

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So when we're applying manufacturing techniques to the entirety of that built environment,

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it means everything from our owners, in their requirements, in concepting with our architects and engineers,

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with our general contractors in building these things, our manufacturers for informing those designs,

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all the way through, you know, my facility managers that are operating these,

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and all the way across that data that needs to feed back to back to that owner and all the stakeholders.

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We want to apply proven manufacturing techniques to the entirety of that process within the built environment.

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I like to think of industrialized construction as the house that I see built.

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You'll hear me use that acronym across the course modules as well as some others.

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At the foundation of our house, you'll see technology and process enablers.

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On the technology side, there'll be things like IoT and big data and analytics that we'll discuss, especially when we talk about digital twins.

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Also, we wanna be able to use that data for predictive analysis.

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The cloud is also very important as well as we wanna share that data across many stakeholders in many parts of the world,

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in a resilient, safe, and efficient productive way.

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Process enablers are there like lean manufacturing, as well as building information modeling and DFMA.

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We'll talk a lot about DFMA and its evolution in other parts of this course.

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At the physical manifestation of our house, you'll see the prefabrication continuum.

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I like to think of it as pieces and parts and not a hierarchy.

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For the right application, use the right pieces and parts from this continuum.

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Things like advanced building products that reduce drying time, curing time, and hot work,

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single trade assemblies, multi trade assemblies, and then volumetric modular.

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Again, not a hierarchy, lots of pieces and parts in your toolkit.

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We wanna then apply advanced building methodologies to those pieces and parts and enable them through DFMA,

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like robotics and automation, as well as things like additive manufacturing.

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So, again, this is the house that industrialized construction built.

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It's not an exhaustive list, but it'll give you a good start.