Transforming house construction with DfMA
Construction practice has hardly evolved in 40 years, and nor has productivity. Houses as a product have been criticised as cost-inefficient and failing to meet the market demand.
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Platform design for manufacture and assembly of housing
The platform enables house design to be faster to construct, economical to build and low impacts to the environment.
Read moreDfMA House Panel Production
The consortium has designed an efficient production line for DfMA houses under factory conditions (Figure 1). The aim ...
Read moreOverheating mitigation and Indoor air quality improvement in new build residential developments in the UK
The aim of the project is to propose cost effective scalable construction solutions and strategies that take account o...
Read moreDfMA house knowledge-based engineering (KBE) tool for Life Cycle Cost and CO2 emissions
Birmingham City University have developed a Knowledge Based Engineering (KBE) tool to estimate life cycle cost and CO2...
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