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Exploring Key Factors for Contractors in Opening Prefabrication Factories: A Chinese Case Study

Journal

FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
Volume 10, Issue -, Pages -

Publisher

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.837350

Keywords

prefabrication; contractor; key factors; social network analysis; China

Funding

  1. Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [2021CDJSKCG31]

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This study aims to explore the key factors for contractors to open prefabrication factories. A total of 28 influencing factors were identified from literature and divided into four categories: policy environment, market environment, technological environment, and enterprise internal environment. Through interviews and questionnaire surveys, four key influencing factors were determined, which are mandatory implementation policy, precast concrete component's price, market demand, and contractor's strategic objectives.
Adoption of prefabrication is essential for improving the urban built environment. However, the existing prefabrication market in China is far from mature. As the stakeholder who conducts construction activities, the contractor is facing a dilemma of lacking steady prefabricated components supply. In this circumstance, a potential solution is that contractors open their own prefabrication factories to guarantee stable component supply. The aim of this research is exploring the key factors for contractors to open prefabrication factories. Firstly, a total of 28 influencing factors were identified from literature. Then, the identified factors were divided into four categories: policy environment, market environment, technological environment, and enterprise internal environment. Through interviews with experienced professionals, a total of 19 factors were selected for future analysis. Based on the 19 factors, a questionnaire was designed and distributed to the experts to rate the degree of mutual influences. The collected data were analyzed using Ucinet6.0 software, and the adjacency matrix and the visual models were established. Finally, through the analysis of node centrality, betweenness centrality, and closeness centrality, the four key influencing factors were determined including mandatory implementation policy, precast concrete component's price, market demand, and contractor's strategic objectives. The results of this study could assist contractors in making decisions of opening their own prefabrication factories toward more sustainable environment.

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