RT-371

By focusing on people, process, and technology, Research Team 371 proposed a framework for continuous organizational improvement. The framework recommends which practices companies should implement to maximize and capitalize on the benefits of offsite construction. This project provided a proactive and forward-thinking roadmap to track and evaluate an organization’s progress as it moves to, and leverages, offsite construction.

The outcomes of this project make construction organizations more competitive by driving real benefits, reducing risks, enhancing construction predictability, promoting consistency, improving project execution, and enabling future performance improvements. The findings of this research quantified the state of practice of offsite construction, and the team recommended a list of technologies that companies should invest in to take advantage of the growth in offsite construction and to succeed in both current and future offsite construction.

This project helps companies in planning and managing their workforce, prioritizing training needs and programs, improving the quality of the workforce involved in offsite construction operations, having more accurate identification of shortcomings in their offsite construction projects, and identifying which capabilities the organization needs to acquire to improve offsite construction performance and how such improvement might be achieved. Final Report 371 addresses the following topics associated with offsite construction:

1. The current state of practice and future prospects
2. Key technologies
3. Affected workforce occupations and the needed skillset
4. Factors that affect labor productivity
5. Workforce strategies
6. Lessons learned
7. Needed improvements
8. Strategic solutions
9. Pain points
10. Recommended practices
11. Maturity model
12. Scoring tool
     

Related Academic Publications (not published by CII)
CII does not review or endorse this publication, which was published independently, but added it here because it was directly or indirectly supported by the CII research project. Users may need to pay to access this piece.

Assaad, Rayan, El-adaway, Islam H., Hastak, Makarand, and LaScola Needy, Kim (2020). “Commercial and Legal Considerations of Offsite Construction Projects and their Hybrid Transactions.” Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(12).

Assaad, Rayan H., El-adaway, Islam H., Hastak, Makarand, and LaScola Needy, Kim (2021). “ Smart and Emerging Technologies: Shaping the Future of the Industry and Offsite Construction.” Proceedings of the ASCE International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering 2021 (pp. 787-794). Reston, VA: American Society of Civil Engineers.

Assaad, Rayan H., El-adaway, Islam H., Hastak, Makarand, and LaScola Needy, Kim (2021). “Opportunities and Challenges of Offsite Construction.” Proceedings of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineering Annual Conference 2021 (pp. 555-568). Singapore: Springer.

​Assaad, Rayan, El-adaway, Islam H., Hastak, Makarand, and LaScola Needy, Kim (2022a). “The Impact of Offsite Construction on the Workforce: Required Skillset and Prioritization of Training Needs.” Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 148(7).

Assaad, Rayan, El-adaway, Islam H., Hastak, Makarand, and LaScola Needy, Kim (2022b). “Quantification of the State of Practice of Offsite Construction and Related Technologies: Current Trends and Future Prospects.” Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 148(7).

Assaad, Rayan, El-adaway, Islam H., Hastak, Makarand, and LaScola Needy, Kim (2022c). “The COVID-19 Pandemic: A Catalyst and Accelerator for Offsite Construction Technologies.” Journal of Management in Engineering, 38(6), 04022062.

Assaad, Rayan, El-adaway, Islam , Hastak, Makarand, and LaScola Needy, Kim (2023). “Key Factors Affecting Labor Productivity in Offsite Construction Projects” Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 149(1), 04022158, pp. 1-16.