Modular Prefabrication for Rapid Lightweight Construction
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02-News_010-027_en.qxp_Layout 1 05.05.20 09:00 Seite 16 NEWS Short articles introducing Priority Programme (PP) 2187 Modular Prefabrication for Rapid Lightweight Construction ˾ Peter Mark and Patrick Forman, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany Sustainable construction work is subjected to diverse re- “Adaptive modular building design with flow production quirements. Material, finance and manpower resources methods” is to develop procedures for prefabrication in should be employed sparingly; a construction site ought to series that facilitate the shortest construction time possible generate little disturbance for others; durable, long-lasting [2]. To this end, structures are divided into similar modules, structures need to be created [1]. Monetary criteria are not prefabricated in a factory and then just joined up together sufficient of themselves. A holistic objective would rather at a construction site. It is important to track the modules be to avoid the wastage that can characterise all the crite- with sensors and assure their quality without fail so that no ria listed here. Current construction work in Europe on new component is lacking, no post-processing is needed and bridges and high-rise buildings shows how important time that they are erected according to the design of their digi- factors have become. Slow work at a construction site is tal twin and precisely reflect this digital base model. not in harmony with sensitively networked goods and logistic flows and can become particularly wasteful when The German Research Foundation (GRF) began sponsoring traffic jams, emissions and lost human working hours are this PP in 2020. The programme is scheduled over six years considered. The objective of Priority Programme (PP) 2187 and brings together researchers from the disciplines of struc- Titles of the individual projects encompassed in PP 2187 arranged in three subject areas (coloured circles) 16 CPI – Concrete Plant International – 3 | 2020 www.cpi-worldwide.com 02-News_010-027_en.qxp_Layout 1 05.05.20 09:00 Seite 17 NEWS tural engineering, production technology, construction infor- matics and mathematics. Cross-discipline thinking and devel- oping are required. Eight university sites are involved: the Uni- versity of Stuttgart, the Universities of Applied Science from Munich, Dresden, Berlin and Chemnitz, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, the Leibniz University of Hanover and the Ruhr University Bochum. The programme content deals with three main fields of research: • Design and construction in terms of modularization • Manufacturing strategies and production concepts for scalable structural modules • Continuous digital models for designing, manufacturing and assembling processes We are dealing with modularization methods and module concepts, e.g. dismantling concepts, joining principles or con- nections with tolerance compensation. The main focus is on developing production systems, quality assurance and pro- duction management in the area of manufacturing and pro- duction. The objective with the digital models is to be able to derive consistent interaction modelling and thus continuous linking of relevant processes including their implementation in a utilisation phase. The illustration shows the different research subjects of the 13 sub-projects assigned to three fields of research (coloured cir- cles). They have been almost uniformly distributed amongst the fields and are, as a general rule, undertaken as tandem projects by two research institutes. An introduction will be made to the content of all these sub-projects in short articles in the following editions of CPI – Concrete Plant International. ̈ Literature [1] Ahrens, M. A.; Strauss, A.; Bergmeister, K.; Mark, P.; Stangenberg, F.: Lebensdauerorientierter Entwurf, Konstruktion, Nachrechnung, Betonkalender Bd. 1, Hrsg. Bergmeister, K., Fingerloos, F. & Wörner, J.-D., 2013, S.17-222. (ISBN 978-3-433-03000-4) [2] Forman, P.; Mark, P.: DFG Schwerpunktprogramm 2187: Adaptive Modulbauweisen mit Fließfertigungsmethoden – Präzisionsschnell- bau der Zukunft, BetonWerk International 85(6), 2019, S. 12-14. FURTHER INFORMATION Ruhr University Bochum Chair for Solid Construction Building IC, Level 5, Room 5-179 Universitätsstrasse 150 44801 Bochum, Germany T +49 234 3222700 F +49 234 3214370 www.massivbau.rub.de www.cpi-worldwide.com CPI – Concrete Plant International – 3 | 2020.