Analysis Model for Industrialized Housing Design and Assembly Process

Industrialized housing construction comprises different connected activities that include many stakeholders and for which the plan of action is carried out itinerantly. This paper proposes and tests a conceptual analysis model for industrialized housing design and assembly process. Four projects from Ethiopia and China were selected as a comparative case study. Semi-structured interviews, document and literature reviews, and field studies were conducted. Abductive reasoning was applied for conceptual model development. The study’s findings revealed that the complexity of the design-construction process of industrialized housing could be simplified through the building component-based design and assembly process. Further, it provides three basic dimensions (i.e., material, technical, and assembly order) to understand and analyze industrialized house buildings. The study contributes a conceptual model to the industrialized house-building body of knowledge for a systematic view of the industrialized housing design and construction process.