Effectively Transiting from Traditional Construction Method to Offsite Construction Through Robust Data Management Repository-Implications to Wider OSC Approach and Adoption

Godoyon Wusu¹, Hafiz Alaka¹, Raphael Oseghale¹, Wasiu Yusuf¹, Funlade Sunmonu¹, Saheed Ajayi², Oluwakemi Oriowo³, Bolarinwa Akinyemi⁴

1. University of Hertfordshire
2. Leeds-Beckett University
3. Newcastle University
4. Anglia-Ruskin University

Published in Proceedings of the International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Built Environment (SASBE 2024), edited by Ali GhaffarianHoseini, Amirhosein GhaffarianHoseini, Farzad Rahimian and Mahesh Babu Purushothaman. Springer Nature, Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, volume 591, 2025, pages 692 to 701. DOI 10.1007/978-981-96-4051-5_67.

Abstract

While traditional construction has advanced its course over time, gathering innumerable data in improving its process, the traditional method at its best has been heavily faulted as not being able to address eminent and exigent global needs like shelter for all and emerging challenges relating to construction works like carbon emission ultimately resulting in global environmental sustainability challenges starring at our globe in its face, e.g. meeting net-zero carbon target, reducing global shelter deficits, etc. Despite the many advancements attempted to improve traditional buildings, its limitations keep calling for alternative means of housing provision and construction processes. Extant studies have identified Offsite construction (OSC) as an alternative to addressing the shortcomings of traditional construction methods. OSC, on the other hand, has the potential to address the shortcomings of traditional construction approaches in addressing technological advancements and global challenges, is a re-emerging solution whose process is yet to be fully articulated. OSC, however, does not have a project database with which to run. This study appraised extant literature for issues bothering OSC data availability, collation and management and, therefore, aims to provide a framework for OSC data collation to develop a robust OSC data repository for the UK OSC in driving the wider OSC adoption. The framework presented the minimum valuable products (MVPs) required for real-time data gathering of the various issues influencing OSC adoption and holds the potential to provide academic scholars, industry captains and policymakers with adoption intelligence needed to drive wider OSC adoption.

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Session

Presented in Track K, Saturday 9 November 2024, 11:00 to 13:00, room WG 1001, Auckland University of Technology. Session chair Dr Zahra Jalali.

How to Cite

Wusu, G., Alaka, H., Oseghale, R., Yusuf, W., Sunmonu, F., Ajayi, S., Oriowo, O., & Akinyemi, B. (2025). Effectively Transiting from Traditional Construction Method to Offsite Construction Through Robust Data Management Repository-Implications to Wider OSC Approach and Adoption. In A. GhaffarianHoseini, A. GhaffarianHoseini, F. Rahimian, & M. B. Purushothaman (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Built Environment (SASBE 2024) (Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, Vol. 591, pp. 692–701). Springer Nature Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-4051-5_67

About the Conference

Presented at SASBE 2024, the International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Built Environment, held in Auckland from 7 to 9 November 2024 and chaired by Professors Ali and Amirhosein GhaffarianHoseini, founders of GDI Academy. The version of record is published by Springer Nature; this page is the conference archive record kept by GDI Academy.