B10 Proprietary buildings
Checklist:
Consider:
- Offsite prefabrication: Construction Industry Skills shortage needs more factory production
- On-site temporary factory production, benefits: less vehicles to deliver materials, aiming for factory conditions and better quality work and less waste
- Set up on-site factory production in weatherproof enclosure on solid base and thermally comfortable conditions
- Use of standard size components without cutting, to minimise offcuts and waste
- Balance with avoiding transporting large volumes of air
- Panelisation in preference to volumetric, unless fully equipped and heavy
Avoid:
- Factory controlled tolerances being spoiled by poor assembly tolerances on site
- Cassette panels being delivered without any offcuts to permit propping and spacing off, causing operatives to cut out studs to do this
- Composites which are difficult to recycle although there is some evidence that technology is catching up and permitting easy separation in the future
Minimise:
Substitute:
Resource Efficiency:
Reduce:
- Reduced waste opportunities with factory condition production and segregated waste containers
Reclaim:
Reuse:
- Reused timber studwork
Recycle:
- Recycled newspaper cellulose fibre thermal insulation, spray or loose fill in panels
Recover:
Waste Issues:
Waste Category:
Hazardous waste:
Waste statistics:
- 30 m tonnes (33% of 90 m. tonnes/year) of waste is offcuts
- Site practices tend to put all waste into mixed skips and the likelihood of a scrap coming out of a mixed skip are poor
- Factory production segregated waste and clean methods of working mean scraps are more likely to be used to finish a job than not
End of life options:
Health and Safety Issues:
Maintenance issue:
Precautionary principle:
Information sources:
© GBE NGS ASWS BrianMurphy aka BrianSpecMan
– 26th January 2013 – 18th November 2018
B10 Proprietary buildings
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16th December 2012 – 18th November 2018
B10 Proprietary buildings
See Also:
NGS CPD
NGS JARGON BUSTER
Initials, Abbreviations, Acronyms
- IMC
- ITC
- MMC
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- Innovative Methods of Construction (IMC)
- Innovative Timber Construction (ITC)
- Modern Methods of Construction (MMC)
- Modular
- Panel
- Pod
- ‘Podular’
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