Prefabrication

Building & construction materials,

Sem VII, DSCA

@Deepti 01/12
COMPONENTS OF THE CHAPTER

• Introduction to prefabrication
• History of prefabrication
• Importance
• Advantages
• Disadvantages
• Prefabrication in the Indian context
• Relevance for future

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 The term 'prefabrication' describes assemblies that are manufactured under
factory conditions and then transported to construction sites for incorporation
into building or civil engineering works.

ISSUES IN CONVENTIONAL SYSTEM

High
What is framework
costs due to
prefabrication Compromising demand supply
gaps
Quality

Time
Improper consuming
manwork

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PREFABRICATION HISTORY

Building regulations
Higher demand

structural & fire

& Less time

Accidents –
Prefabricated panelized
wall and floor system
Second world war building

Monotonous ugly

housing defects
buildings with
Japan, Germany –
in Europe
Shortage of housing

last three decades

vast improvement
in modular
housing with
prefabrication

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 REPETITION

• Economic justification is often dependent on high volume and repetition.

• The handling, transportation, craneage and erection costs of prefabrication have to

Prefabrication
be weighed against in-situ alternatives.
• This has led to use in applications such as residential blocks, hotels & multi family

Importance
homes.

TIME

• Where there is a short programme for construction, and so time has a higher priority
than cost, prefabrication can allow parallel working on different aspects of a project.

QUALITY

• The quality achievable with factory prefabrication is generally higher than can be
achieved on site. (hot trades such as pipe work and mechanical services like welding)
• This can save a lot of complex sitework in confined spaces.

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 Parallel
Progress of
work Higher quality & Better precision Reduced waste
consistency

Prefabrication
Advantages Independence Better safety than
Faster Year round from adverse the construction
construction Sustainability at site construction weather site

Alternative means of
production for
shortages of local Program certainty
Cost
skilled labour Benefits
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 • Road widths. • Factory production
requires predictable
• The need for police escorts.
and consistent
• Height restrictions under bridges demand
and temporary gantries.
• A mistake in the
Transportation • Daytime traffic restrictions in city Factory production mass production
centers. of prefabricated
• Trailer requirements - Load & elements ahead of the
dimensional constraints, permit measurable sitework is
costs a serious risk.
• Sustainability?
• Replacing manual
• The in-situ work abutting workforce with
Prefabrication prefabricated assemblies requires
a higher degree of accuracy than
machinery.

Disadvantages is normally associated with on-site

building work to avoid interface Ethical dilemma
Accuracy problems.

• India has 6 climatic

• Lifting or permanent framing
zones
to support prefabricated
assemblies • The same cannot be
duplicated in all parts
• Maximum load capacities
Site Craneage of site craneage. of the country

Climate and Vernacular

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 The company was developed by the first Prime Minister of India, Pandit Jawaharlal
Nehru, as a solution to the housing crisis that resulted from the influx of refugees from
West Pakistan in the 1950s.
• Intended to produce low-income housing solutions for the deficit in India.
Prefabrication • Precast wall panels and frame members such as beams and columns provided the

in the
required set of tools to erect quick structures for mass housing.
• The most difficult technology transfer obstacle for the HPL has been the cost of

Indian machinery and materials for production.

Context
• Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), India, is a premier national R&D
organization
• The Central Building Research Institute (CBRI), is a constituent establishment
of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India and has been vested with the
responsibility of generating, cultivating and promoting building science and
technology in the service of the country.
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 • The ministry of housing has estimated a housing shortage of 20 million houses with
99% in the economically weaker & lower income groups.
• The need for affordable low cost housing was identified and rural housing schemes
were developed with emphasis on prefabrication technology

Prefabrication
in the
Indian Pre-cast roofing's, RC planks & joists

Context

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Prefabrication
relevance for
the future

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COMPONENTS OF THE CHAPTER

• A Case study on any prefabricated structure.

(Information and Details about the project, drawings & relevant sketches, pictorial representations)
• Submission in A2 plates

Date of Assignment : 06-08-19

Date of Submission : 09-09-18
Marks : 10

• NOTE : All sources from which information has been collected(Books/Websites/papers etc.), need to be
mentioned in the assignment.

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