From the course: Revit: Industrialized Construction

What is industrialized construction? - Revit Tutorial

From the course: Revit: Industrialized Construction

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What is industrialized construction?

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- [Narrator] Non industrialized construction is disjointed. It's open to errors. It can be expensive and it can be time consuming as it says on the slide in front of you. Now, if you look at that little diagram, top left in the slide, what I've tried to do there graphically is allow you to visualize some non industrialized construction. So if you imagine those little rectangles represent prefabricated units that are going into your construction project on site. Now they've been designed perhaps using, let's say, AutoCAD or a product that doesn't really allow you to work within building information modeling and that's where the disjointedness comes in and the errors can come in because you've got lots of different people, working on a project, using lots of different applications and products, and so on. And what's happening there is people aren't talking to each other. So the steelwork will arrive for the frame of the building. The concrete floors will arrive for the building to create the floors that sit inside that steelwork structure. If there's some errors there with the sizing let's say the steelwork wasn't the right size and the concrete floors then don't fit. That's where it is disjointed. That's where it's open to errors and it becomes expensive. It becomes time consuming. And what's happening there is projects then overrun not only on time but run over on budget as well and there's a cost implication there. It affects your bottom line. So this is where industrialized construction comes in. It's modular. It's like a jigsaw. It gives you cost savings. It gives you time savings on projects as well. So if you look at the little graphic to the left in the middle, I've got four little rectangular units there arranged nice and neatly in my construction project. They're prefabricated offsite, they're just craned in and dropped into the steel frame. They might be hotel rooms. They might be bathrooms in a hotel. They could be little business units or offices in a big construction project. And what's happening there is everything is becoming modular. So it becomes like that jigsaw puzzle, everything goes together and the good thing is those jigsaw puzzle pieces all joined together neatly and tightly because everything's prefab. It's all modular. It all just sits together. That's where the cost savings kick in. That's where the time savings kick in. So as I clearly stay on the slide there industrialized construction is becoming the norm now in many building workflows. It's being adopted worldwide. It's being incorporated into construction standards and construction methodologies. Applications such as Revit are becoming that preferred design tool as well and the reason being is they allow you to work with those industrialized construction units. So if you look at the little picture there, the little photograph, you can see just behind the crane there all the little modular office units going together and you can see they're made of precast concrete with a little balcony, doors, windows, et cetera. And all of those will just stack on top of each other, like Lego, like a jigsaw and that's the idea of this industrialized construction. And what we're going to do in this course is take you through a really simple Revit example of how industrialized construction can save you time and also, more importantly, save you money by saving on those costs.

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