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Theories Of Prefabrication

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Prefabrication as we know it now came from the first prefabricated and pre-casted paneled apartment blocks in Liverpool. The engineer John Alexander Brodie is the one who invented this process. The genius method of building that he reached was aiming to reduce the construction time, to lower the labor work and to compensate the lack of educated specialists.
The idea of prefabrication became more popular during and after the Second World War because of the need for mass accommodation for military personnel.
Most of the countries suffer from lack of qualified staff in building industry and prefabrication answer to this, particular after Second World War [1]. Actually, in this year the use of concrete developed and this also is a material which …show more content…

Prefabrication is used in many industries like air and space crafting and shipbuilding. Nowadays there are a lot of companies doing prefabricated elements like Skandek, but unfortunately this practice is only available in developed countries like Denmark, Germany, England, USA and etc.
The theory of prefabrication is that by grouping similar construction tasks time and cost are reduced.
Prefabrication is the best friend of the building with up to 30% reducing time and up to 25 % of cost.

1.2 Problem delimitation and method

The following report will introduce the different types of prefabrication, explain how the process of prefabrication is working. On other hand it will compare prefabrication with ordinary ways of building and helps to determine what are the advantages and the disadvantages of using exactly this type of building. Prefabrication is used in other industries so that will be shown and discussed so you can see that prefabrication is a universal process which could be used not only for building.
All the explanations and proves will be supported by graphs, pictures and already written reports from …show more content…

2.2 Process of prefabrication

Prefabrication is a process in which components of a structure being assembled in a factory or manufacturing site, and transport and locate the complete sub-assemblies and assemblies. The idea of this process is to lower the transportation of basic materials and on other hand to increase transport of all assemblies.
The term prefabrication can be applied to other thing being manufactured other than components of structure which has to be fixed on site. It is mostly used when section of the machine needs to be fabricated or movable structure has to be moved from manufacturing site to another place, and this structure or machine is assembled and ready to fit. Most of those machines are assembled like that so on the site it is only needed to assemble the sections of the body of the machine and the electronic and electrical components such as gearboxes, pumps, computers and compressors are supplied as separate

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