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An evaluation of offsite construction skill profiles
Journal of Financial Management of Property and Construction Pub Date : 2021-02-22 , DOI: 10.1108/jfmpc-08-2020-0057
Buddhini Ginigaddara 1 , Srinath Perera 1 , Yingbin Feng 1 , Payam Rahnamayiezekavat 1
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Purpose

This paper aims to evaluate the existing and emerging Offsite Construction (OSC) skills. Construction industry is inherently labour oriented, fashioning poor labour productivity, low sustainability, slow and costly processes. These shortcomings promote OSC alongside driving forces such as industrialisation, automation and digitalisation. However, the traditional construction skills are not on par with the complexity, where robots, co-bots and digital-driven automated systems create the need for novel OSC skills.

Design/methodology/approach

Data collection is executed through a Roundtable activity hosting Construction Management academics form Australian universities specialising in construction technology. They engaged in ranking of skills along with creating a word cloud for the question, “what are the future construction skills that will be more beneficial in an OSC platform?” Word cloud is reviewed in a discussion approach while skills ranking data is analysed using descriptive statistics.

Findings

The most prominent OSC skills are logistics manager, project manager and digital producer. Attributes of skills that come under construction trades workers, design, engineering and specialist professionals will vary based on onsite-offsite percentage combination in a construction project. Study reviews the required construction skills at two ends of a continuum featuring the trade-based skills; bricklayer, concreter and carpenter at one end (traditional build) and the heavily digitalised and automated skills at the other end (OSC). The noticeable transition towards OSC urges industry practitioners, policy-makers and education providers to focus on understanding and cultivating key OSC skills.

Originality/value

This study describes the transition of skills from onsite to OSC. It is presented as one of the earliest attempts to evaluate OSC skill profiles.



中文翻译:

异地施工技能概况的评估

目的

本文旨在评估现有和新兴的异地施工 (OSC) 技能。建筑业本质上是以劳动力为导向的,形成了低劳动生产率、低可持续性、缓慢和昂贵的流程。这些缺点推动 OSC 与工业化、自动化和数字化等驱动力并驾齐驱。然而,传统的建造技能无法与复杂性相提并论,机器人、协作机器人和数字驱动的自动化系统需要新的 OSC 技能。

设计/方法/方法

数据收集是通过圆桌会议活动来执行的,该活动主持了澳大利亚大学建筑技术专业的建筑管理学者。他们参与了技能排名,并为以下问题创建了一个词云:“未来在 OSC 平台中更有益的构建技能是什么?” 以讨论的方式审查词云,而使用描述性统计分析技能排名数据。

发现

最突出的 OSC 技能是物流经理、项目经理和数字制作人。建筑行业工人、设计、工程和专业专业人员的技能属性将根据建筑项目中的现场-异地百分比组合而有所不同。研究回顾了以贸易技能为特色的连续体两端所需的构建技能;一端是瓦工、混凝土工和木匠(传统建筑),另一端是高度数字化和自动化的技能(OSC)。向 OSC 的显着转变促使行业从业者、政策制定者和教育提供者专注于理解和培养关键的 OSC 技能。

原创性/价值

本研究描述了技能从现场到 OSC 的转变。它被认为是评估 OSC 技能档案的最早尝试之一。

更新日期:2021-02-22
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