TY  - CONF
TI  - Nature of Construction Technology
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.
PY  - 2004
DA  - 2004/08/03
T2  - 12th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
C3  - 12th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
CY  - Helsingør, Denmark
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
L1  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/289/pdf
UR  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/289
DB  - IGLC.net
LA  - English
N1  - Export date: 04 October 2026
ER  -