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Description:
The construction industry accounts for 13% of the global Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The industry is directly impacting the economy, society and the environment. Also, the industry generates 38% of total global energy and process-related CO2, 25-50% global consumption of various types of materials including timber and stones, as well as 50% of landfill wastes. However, the industry has prolonged problems of low productivity, low digitalisation and low innovation adoption. These problems cause severe damage to the environment and global resources. One reason for the problems is the fragmentation of the supply chain in the architecture, engineering and construction sector. Also, the industry suffers from deficiencies in the ability to develop and use digital tools in design, construction, operation and post-operation processes. Extensive digital transformation and industrialisation to different extents are urgently needed to boost productivity, digitalisation and innovation adoption, so as to foster sustainable development in the sector. To address the industry's problems and enable sustainable adoption of emerging technologies and innovations in the sector, firstly, the motivations of this thesis include the need for digital transformation and industrialised construction with integrated digital systems and automated workflow. Secondly, there is a need to bring digital fabrication, which is one aspect of digital transformation and industrialised construction in the current practice, from its nascent stage to large-scale adoption, so as to fully unfold its potential. Thirdly, the sector requires a systematic rethinking of the design for digital fabrication adoption in practice. The adoption entails early involvement of information, stakeholders and their knowledge of the downstream construction process during the upstream design process. This requires a combined value chain between design and construction. Hence, new strategies to enable and manage digital fabrication in the early design process are needed. ...