Title

National Housing Research Agenda For Construction Management And Production

Keywords

Construction management; Housing; Production; Research

Abstract

On February 12, 2004 the National Science Foundation (NSF) sponsored a workshop to define a national housing research agenda. The three-day workshop was held at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. Workshop participants included 39 faculty members representing 26 universities, a researcher from the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) Research Center, and a researcher from State Farm Insurance Companies. Representatives from NSF and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) also attended. Most faculty participants were invited as representatives of their NSF-Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing (PATH) research teams. These participants were supplemented with a limited number of additional faculty/researchers from the universities represented in National Consortium of Housing Research Centers (NCHRC). The workshop was organized into five topical areas: 1) construction management and production, 2) structural design and materials, 3) building enclosures, energy and indoor air quality (IAQ), 4) housing technology, community and the economy, and 5) systems interactions and "whole house" approach. This paper provides a brief overview of the workshop and presents findings in the construction management and production area, summarizes the state of the art in research and recommendations for future research directions. In summary, metrics, methods and tools must be developed to achieve the desired improvements in homebuilding performance. Research is recommended in the following areas: 1) enhancing demand side pressure for quality, 2) developing fundamental construction theory, 3) coordinating the disaggregated supply chain, 4) developing shell and infill processes and technologies, 5) balancing off-site and on-site production, and 6) innovation in safety, quality, scheduling and cost management systems.

Publication Date

11-14-2005

Publication Title

Construction Research Congress 2005: Broadening Perspectives - Proceedings of the Congress

Number of Pages

163-172

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

Socpus ID

27644490542 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/27644490542

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