Prestudy Modular Wiring Systems
In multistorey timber framed industrialized housebuilding, the focus has been on moving labor activities from the construction site to a controlled off-site environment. Research and development have mainly focused on the timber frame structure and bathroom pods, while electrical installation systems have lagged. The project “Prerequisite study Electrical systems”, funded by TCN and with the working title FUSE, will investigate how electrical installation systems can be developed to increase the productivity of timber framed industrialized housebuilding.
Previous studies indicate that installations impede throughput and increase production costs for industrialized housebuilding. Previous results also show that by moving value adding activities from the construction site to the factory the productivity can increase. The increase could be substantial when more of the high-value activities such as electrical, plumbing, and HVAC installation can be migrated offsite. Platform thinking has driven modularization of prefabricated bathroom pods with a positive outcome.
Previous studies also indicate that modularization of electrical installations can provide a prerequisite for increased control and management of the installation process and thereby increase flow of the entire project. The focus on the modularization has previously been on technical development of products rather than development of the production process. It has not given the desired outcome in productivity.
FUSE will therefore investigate how industrially manufactured subsystems of electrical installations can increase the efficiency of the production process for timber framed industrialized housebuilding. The aim is to describe strategies for electrical timber framed industrialized housebuilding that increase the total throughput both off-site and on the construction site.
The study is funded by TCN and with participating companies Derome AB and Lindbäcks Bygg AB.
Contact
Jarkko Erikshammar
- Senior Lecturer
- 0920-491860
- jarkko.erikshammar@ltu.se
- Jarkko Erikshammar
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