Configuration in early phase construction projects
The purpose is to identify the critical questions necessary for a configurator to address, in order to support business decisions in construction projects on sound grounds.
The project takes place as part of the strategic partnership between one of Sweden’s larger contractors Peab and Luleå University of Technology. The project’s point of departure stems from previous research efforts into underlying structures for systematization and management of requirements, which, need further development in order to function as basis for configuration in Peab’s product platform.
In residential building areas, projects contains a plethora of requirements and complexity. Ranging from municipal and societal requirements through various customers’ and third-party stakeholders’ requirements, meeting demands and matching with internal abilities becomes challenging. The complexity – as well as low carry-over between projects – implies that standard solutions are difficult to organize in a product structure. So doing, might not even be desirable, as constraints impede the sought level of flexibility. A “loose configurator”, based on the rationale between low level predefinition (in a product platform), business critical questions, internal capabilities and the conditions of each construction project is investigated instead.
This project’s attention lies at the critical questions in focus in order to support the business decisions of construction projects. The configurator aligns critical questions with technical solutions without proposing pre-engineered solutions. Alternative output, aimed at supporting e.g. tendering and planning processes is sought instead.
Henrik Eriksson, Lars Stehn och Marcus Sandberg
Contact
Henrik Eriksson
- Research Assistant
- 0920-491205
- henrik.2.eriksson@ltu.se
- Henrik Eriksson
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