Construction Innovation: Volume 21 Issue 1

Guest editorial

Mohammed Arif, Jack Goulding, Jeff Rankin, Farzad Pour Rahimian

Understanding industrialised house building as a company’s dynamic capabilities

Lars Stehn, Susanne Engström, Petri Uusitalo, Rita Lavikka

To further the understanding of industrialised house building (IHB) from a temporal, emergent corporate-ability perspective, this study aims to trace the build-up of corporate…

Continuous improvement of the industrialised housebuilding order fulfilment process

Wolfgang Grenzfurtner, Manfred Gronalt

A deeper understanding of what needs to be considered to improve the targeted incorporation of employees’ knowledge into continuous improvement (CI) programmes in industrialised…

General contractors’ experience using off-site structural framing systems

John Killingsworth, Mohammed Hashem Mehany, Hana Ladhari

This paper aims to examine general contractors’ experiences of using off-site manufactured structural framing systems. This engaged a single-case study using a qualitative…

Smart factories for single-family wooden houses – a practitioner’s perspective

Alexander Vestin, Kristina Säfsten, Malin Löfving

The meaning of Industry 4.0 has started to be outlined for the construction industry, but there is still limited knowledge on the implications for the single-family wooden house…

Automated guided vehicles in modular integrated construction: potentials and future directions

Yi Yang, Wei Pan

This paper aims to examine the potentials of using automated guided vehicle (AGV) technology in modular integrated construction (MiC) to realise logistics automation in module…

Understanding off-site readiness in Indian construction organisations

Deepthi Bendi, Muhammad Qasim Rana, Mohammed Arif, Jack Steven Goulding, Amit Kant Kaushik

This paper presents a bespoke model for understanding off-site construction (OSC) readiness among Indian construction organisations. This model presents 17 variables for…

An off-site construction readiness maturity model for the Indian construction sector

Deepthi Bendi, Muhammad Qasim Rana, Mohammed Arif, Jack Steven Goulding, Anil Sawhney

This paper aims to present an off-site construction (OSC) readiness maturity model for assessing the readiness of offsite construction companies in the Indian construction sector.