TY  - CONF
TI  - Design-Value in the Platform Approach
AU  - Maxwell, Duncan W.
AU  - Aitchison, Mathew
AD  - PhD Candidate, Innovation in Applied Design Lab, Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, duncan.maxwell@sydney.edu.au
AD  - Associate Professor, Innovation in Applied Design Lab, Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, m.aitchison@sydney.edu.au
PY  - 2017
DA  - 2017/07/09
T2  - 25th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
C3  - 25th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
CY  - Heraklion, Greece
SP  - 349
EP  - 356
DO  - 10.24928/2017/0033
SN  - 2309-0979 (ISSN)
AB  - Lean production has responded to low-level customisation, but for residential construction, earlier customer input is required. The development of the ‘platform approach’ to industrialised house building has enabled high-level masscustomisation. Focus has been applied to ‘hard’ improvements regarding production efficiency, with less emphasis on ‘soft’ values associated with the intangible nature of design. Platform-thinking has demonstrated that new possibilities are emerging which may enable producers of industrialised housing to effectively deliver designvalue to end-users. This paper contributes to the developing platform approach, by investigating design-value for industrialised house building from an architectural perspective. Through an understanding of the product platform approach developed within the Swedish context, selected case-studies from outside construction demonstrate the possibilities that the platform-thinking concept holds, to address the research question; how can design-value be achieved in industrialised house building? Much design-value originates from interaction between designer and user, which has been overlooked in the development of the platform approach, yet by considering its conceptual basis of platform-thinking, new possibilities emerge for the delivery of design-value in product and process. The findings will enhance the development of platforms for industrialised house building.
KW  - Lean design
KW  - platforms
KW  - platform-thinking
KW  - design-value
KW  - architecture
L1  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/1401/pdf
UR  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/1401
DB  - IGLC.net
LA  - English
N1  - Export date: 04 October 2026
ER  -