TY - JOUR
T1 - Towards Physical Internet-enabled prefabricated housing construction in Hong Kong
AU - Zhong, Ray Y.
AU - Peng, Yi
AU - Fang, Ji
AU - Xu, Gangyan
AU - Xue, Fan
AU - Zou, Weiwu
AU - Huang, George Q.
N1 - Funding Information:
logistics efficiency and sustainability (Montreuil 2010). Current year, great attentions have been paid upon the Physical Internet due to the innovative and advanced concept of encapsulating goods into smart objects, sharing data in the Digital Internet, and shipping adaptively and efficiently. In the United States, National Science Foundation (NSF) has funded a research project conducted by Center for Excellence in Logistics and Distribution (CE LDi), aiming at establishing a logistics system to gain efficiency of the Physical Internet. Physical Internet has been widely used for upgrading the logistics and supply chain management integrating the Internet of Things technologies (Zhong, Dai et al. 2013, Qiu, Luo et al. 2014, hZ ong, Huang et al. 2014) .
Funding Information:
The Research Team would like to thank the HKSAR ITC/LSCM RD & Centre for partially funding this research through the Innovation and Technology Support Programme (Project Reference.: ITP/0145/ 3LP). The Research Team is grateful to the Hong Kong Housing Authority and its contractors for supporting and participating in this research through a real project application. National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 514035 07) is also acknowledged.
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PY - 2015/5/1
Y1 - 2015/5/1
N2 - Préfabrication could provide various benefits for housing production, including lower the cost, improve the management efficiency and quality, ensure the safety, and realize sustainability. However, to fully acquire these benefits in real world construction process, challenges still exist on real-time tracing and tracking of the préfabrication components, and getting real-time interactions among all the stockholders. Physical Internet (PI), as has been well adopted in logistics, could be an effective solution for real-time visibility. Based on the préfabrication practice in Hong Kong, this paper proposes the architecture of an Pi-enabled prefabricated housing construction which upgrades and transforms the préfabrication construction so that the logistics echelons could be seamlessly integrated and synchronized, together with a Pi-enabled decision support system (DSS) which uses Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud techniques for designing the architecture and a rich set of services and tools to assist different decision makers. Firstly, three stages of préfabrication construction have been analyzed in detail to point out current challenges. Secondly, the technical framework of Pi-enabled Building Information Modelling (BIM) Platform (PIBIMP) is developed. Finally, a case study is given to demonstrate the working process of our proposed solution, and the effectiveness of it has also been verified.
AB - Préfabrication could provide various benefits for housing production, including lower the cost, improve the management efficiency and quality, ensure the safety, and realize sustainability. However, to fully acquire these benefits in real world construction process, challenges still exist on real-time tracing and tracking of the préfabrication components, and getting real-time interactions among all the stockholders. Physical Internet (PI), as has been well adopted in logistics, could be an effective solution for real-time visibility. Based on the préfabrication practice in Hong Kong, this paper proposes the architecture of an Pi-enabled prefabricated housing construction which upgrades and transforms the préfabrication construction so that the logistics echelons could be seamlessly integrated and synchronized, together with a Pi-enabled decision support system (DSS) which uses Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud techniques for designing the architecture and a rich set of services and tools to assist different decision makers. Firstly, three stages of préfabrication construction have been analyzed in detail to point out current challenges. Secondly, the technical framework of Pi-enabled Building Information Modelling (BIM) Platform (PIBIMP) is developed. Finally, a case study is given to demonstrate the working process of our proposed solution, and the effectiveness of it has also been verified.
KW - Logistics and supply chain management (LSCM)
KW - Physical Internet (PI)
KW - Prefabricated housing construction
KW - RFID
KW - Smart construction objects (SCOs)
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ifacol.2015.06.227
DO - 10.1016/j.ifacol.2015.06.227
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:84953853007
SN - 2405-8963
VL - 28
SP - 1079
EP - 1086
JO - IFAC-PapersOnLine
JF - IFAC-PapersOnLine
IS - 3
T2 - 15th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing, INCOM 2015
Y2 - 11 May 2015 through 13 May 2015
ER -