IndustrializedConstruction Forum

May 18, 2016

Jerker (Jerry) Lessing• Visiting lecturer at Stanford 2016• Director of R&D at BoKlok (Skanska + IKEA)• PhD from Lund University• Backgound: Advisor to building

companies, Consultant and managingR&D projects

• Worked with IC for 15 years

A need to change our industry

• ”All projects are unique”• Unique technical solutions• Unique teams• Unique production methods• Unique supply chains

• Low predictability• Low profitability• Low sustainability

Weather exposure

Production facility?

Sustainability

Supply chain management

Production methods

Safety issuesEfficiency issues

Menlo Park, CAExclusive house-building?

A few miles away…-This is developed!

Potential for

innovation!Jerker Lessing, April 2016

Industrialization

Jerker Lessing, April 2016

Prefabrication

Automation

Factory production

Assembly

Standardized processes

Materials handling

Digitalization

Building systems

Standardized technology

Prefabrication

Automation

Factory production

Assembly

Standardized processes

Materials handling

Digitalization

Building systems

Standardized technology

INTEGRATION

J. Lessing

• The concept is complex

• Several aspects need to be integrated

• Continuity is the key!•Technology•Processes•Relations

A model for industrialization

Lessing (2006)

Platforms for increased continuityInspiration from other industriesProduct platforms enable a technological structureConfiguration instead of project-unique design!

Platforms for increased continuity

DesignPlanning Manufacture Assembly

Sitework

Groundworks

Specific building project

Integration

Lessing (2006)

Knowledge flow

Development of Technical platform

Development of Process platform

Jerker Lessing, April 2016

Development of Technical platform

Development of Process platform

Project X1

Project X2

Project Y1

Project Y2

The projects are part of a continuous process

1.0 2.0

Jerker Lessing, April 2016

Key word:

Continuity• Technology and Systems

• Process and methods• Team and relations

Jerker Lessing, April 2016

Industrialized construction in Sweden• Sweden is leading globally in

industrialized construction concepts

• Single-family houses follow a long industrial history and 80 % are built with industrialized methods

• 20% of the multi-family residential buildings are built with industrialized construction methods

Industrialized construction in Sweden• Industrialization is on the agenda

in companies, in academia and at authorities

• Production methods• Platform development• Business models

Industrialized Construction at Stanford• Industrialized Construction course

(third time)• 24 students, 14 nationalities• Close collaboration with companies• Study trip to Sweden

Sweden

International impact

Sweden

China

Lebanon

Phillipines

Mexico

Venezuela

India

Indonesia

ColombiaUSADom. Rep

CanadaCosta Rica

Study trip to Sweden in 2014Planned also for 2016

Active knowledge transfer!Ideas grow when people meet!

- That’s why we are here today!

Today’s program• Sweden’s recipe for industrialized construction Prof Lars Stehn,

Luleå University of Technology

• Further development of industrialized construction Ast Prof Niclas Andersson, Malmö University

• IKEA’s and Skanska’s house-building company: BoKlok Lars Gath, VP BoKlok

• BONE Structure: Innovative technology for high-quality house-building, Charles Bovet

• Project Frog: Platforms for building schools, data centers and medical buildings, Mike Eggers

• The CORE: Modular approach for sustanable and scalable house-building, Derek Ouyang

• Reflections, Jerker Lessing

• Panel discussion

• Networking, wine and chesse

Reflections

May 18, 2016

Platform, System, Product

• Choice of platform strategyaffects process structure and organization

• The business model changeswith the platform strategy

• Difference in offer and company role

Opportunities• Product-orientation enables

high design value (customer appreciation)

• Specialization gives high efficiency through optimized production systems

• Product offering companies are not contractors

• New business models!

Opportunities• Scalability!

• Sustainability!

• Continuity!

• Profitability

• “Productability”

Thank you!

May 18, 2016