Industrialization of Construction

　

　Industrialization is the main trend of scientific and technical progress in construction. Industrialization includes the extensive use of prefabricated factory-finished large-sized elements and the conversion of production into a mechanized and continuously flowing process of assembly and installation of buildings and structures made of prefabricated assemblies and parts. The development and improvement of construction work on the basis of mechanization and automation. The industrialization of construction has several purposes: increasing labor productivity, replacing manual labor with machines, accelerating the pace of construction, putting new projects into operation more quickly, reducing costs, and improving quality.

　　

Industrialization involves the construction industry and the building-materials industry equally. Establishing model design concepts is a prerequisite for industrializing construction. Established models make it possible to use standard construction assemblies and parts, which can be produced economically by mass production. In turn, standard models are based on standardized space-layout and design concepts for buildings and structures.

　　

The industrialization of construction assumes a high level of organization, technology, and sophistication in construction and installation work and requires progressive organizational forms of construction management (including consolidation and specialization of construction and installation organizations, cooperation and combining, and multifunctional associations for construction and planning).Well-trained workers are needed. Besides, Increased technological specialization involves an expansion of interregional and intersectorial links. The introduction of automated control systems using mathematical economic methods and computer technology, improved organizational technique, and progressive means of communication offer great opportunities for improving planning and management in construction and in the production of building materials, assemblies, and parts. Favorable conditions are being established for doing jobs on combined schedules and for putting up buildings immediately after receiving the prefabricated elements. In industrial construction, payment for a fully completed project or major stage of work is the basic form of settling accounts between customers and contracting organizations.

　

Industrialization of construction is based on systematic replacement and expansion of the productive capital of the construction industry and building-materials industry. The development of the electric power, chemical, metallurgical, and other industrial sectors makes it possible to produce new building materials and assemblies whose use increases the efficiency of capital investments.

　　

Precast reinforced concrete can be used especially widely in housing and civil construction built using industrial methods and commericial methods. Under the help of Chinese government ,we believe the industrialization of construction, a modern and scientific construction system, will shine in China.