Unit 106 pp8 Off-Site Construction Quiz

Products are manufactured and assembled on the construction site.

Products are transported to the site and then manufactured.

Products are manufactured in a factory and then transported and assembled on-site.

Products are designed on-site and then sent to a factory for manufacturing.

Components

Subassemblies

Panels

Bricks

Increased weather impact on production

Less controlled production environment

Quicker production process

Higher waste production

Makes it less consistent

Makes it more susceptible to weather conditions

Creates a controlled production environment

Reduces the speed of the production process

Consistent production process

Production is impacted by weather conditions

Quicker production process

Less waste

Reduced material costs

Speed of production

Lower design complexity

Increased labor requirements

By providing better housing to the community

By reducing the risk to construction personnel compared to on-site

By creating more jobs

By improving the skills of the workers

Lower carbon emissions

Higher quality products and performance

Use of renewable energy sources

Reduction in land use

Lower quality and unpredictable product behaviour

Higher quality and more predictable product behaviour

Increased defects and lower customer satisfaction

Decreased control over the quality of the product

Through a chaotic and wet environment

By reducing the regularity and increasing defects

Through a regularised and dry environment, producing components with predictable better performance

By outsourcing the production to multiple factories