TY - CONF TI - Nature of Construction Technology C1 - Helsingør, Denmark C3 - 12th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction PY - 2004 AU - Chang, Andrews S. AU - Lee, Kuan Pei AD - Associate Professor, National Cheng Kung Univ., Civil Engineering Dept., Tainan, Taiwan anschang@mail.ncku.edu.tw AD - Ph.D. Candidate, Cheng Kung Univ., Civil Engineering Dept., Tainan, Taiwan, n6891121 @ccmail.ncku.edu. tw ED - Bertelsen, Sven ED - Formoso, Carlos T. AB - Construction management studies address mostly the phenomena of construction problems. Few studies explore the nature of construction technology or production systems. Technologies in manufacturing are classified into unit, mass and continuous process productions and their characteristics are examined. Construction fabrications and activities are contrasted to classify construction technology as unit production. Furthermore, technical change is studied and limitations to the change of construction technology are proposed. Although the efficiency of construction technology as unit production is low, it has many advantages such as flexibility and zero stocks. The appearance of new production systems will not replace the old unit production. Although the final construction products could not be standardized entirely, we can standardize their components, and rethink their assembling and integrating methods to increase production efficiency. KW - Construction technology KW - production system KW - unit production KW - mass production KW - continuous process KW - product KW - automation KW - technical change PB - T2 - 12th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction DA - 2004/08/03 CY - Helsingør, Denmark L1 - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/289/pdf L2 - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/289 N1 - Export Date: 29 March 2024 DB - IGLC.net DP - IGLC LA - English ER -