Day 2 presentations
Interdisciplinary lightning contributions
Public housing case study
Innovative solutions in the provision of public housing in Hong Kong
Geoffrey Qiping Shen, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Summary Examines public-housing demand, waiting times, land and infrastructure constraints in Hong Kong, together with policy responses and research on prefabrication, real-time supply-chain information and modular assembly robotics.
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Lightning block 1 What affordable housing must deliver
A social science research agenda for MMC and affordable housing
Rachel Macrorie, Nottingham Trent University
Summary Sets out a social-science agenda for Modern Methods of Construction covering political economy, factory and site practices, material flows, brownfield delivery, circularity, skills and place-based regional development.
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Collaborative research on health housing and community wellbeing
Samira Awwal, Liverpool John Moores University
Summary Identifies research opportunities connecting indoor air quality, retrofit design, thermal comfort, housing inequality, healthy ageing, smart sensing and the experience of residents.
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Carbon neutral and healthy building services
Piia Sormunen, Tampere University, Finland
Summary Introduces opportunities for collaboration in carbon-neutral construction, building-services engineering, indoor air quality, measurement, digitalisation, artificial intelligence and supply-chain data management.
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Lightning block 2 Performance designed into housing
Next generation smart homes
Rakesh Mishra, University of Huddersfield
Summary Explores digital twins, healthy retrofit, building-performance simulation, and artificial intelligence, including the potential for homes to support health monitoring while protecting privacy and user choice.
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What performance must be designed into housing
Billy Hare, Glasgow Caledonian University
Summary Considers affordability, health, energy, resilience, adaptability, durability and maintainability as connected performance requirements, while recognising the trade-offs between capital cost, space, complexity and whole-life value.
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Healthy materials and evidence informed housing design
Mohanad Abobakr, University of Roehampton
Summary Considers how evidence on hygienic materials, durability, maintenance and infection prevention from healthcare environments might inform healthy affordable housing without transferring solutions uncritically between settings.
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Lightning block 3 Delivery system change
Takt production and affordable housing
Olli Seppänen, Aalto University, Finland
Summary Summarises how Takt production can improve flow, reliability and learning in residential construction, while stressing that lasting benefits also require standardisation, prefabrication and improved logistics.
Sustaining industrialised construction capability at scale
Volkan Ezcan, Liverpool John Moores University
Summary Frames industrialised construction as an ecosystem capability, focusing on the skills and resources required, how capability survives changing projects and markets, and how organisations align around a coherent delivery system.
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Learning from project failure
Danstan Chiponde, Birmingham City University
Summary Proposes treating project failure as a source of evidence for improving housing delivery, including learning from unsuccessful Modern Methods of Construction projects, sustainability measures and weaknesses in delivery systems.
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Lightning block 4 Digital infrastructure for delivery at scale
Digitalisation and industrialised housing in the Netherlands
Huub Keizers, TNO, Netherlands
Summary Connects offsite construction with digital product, production, logistics and supply-chain information, showing how digitalisation and modular design can support industrialised and circular housing delivery.
Total BIM and data centred construction
Mattias Roupé, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Summary Questions the continued reliance on drawings and proposes a data-centred construction process in which digital information directly supports design, production planning and site work.
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Human data interaction and affordable housing
Dimosthenis Kifokeris, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Summary Explores how residents, clients, designers, workers and suppliers interact with data, and how legibility, agency and trust can connect industrialised construction and Total BIM with human needs and learning across projects.
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Platform approaches digital twins and Lean Construction
Saeed Talebi, Birmingham City University
Summary Proposes connecting platform product data, production digital twins and Lean routines so that performance can be measured across programmes and improvements can transfer between projects, factories and countries.
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Day 2 Workshop Resources
Day 2 welcome and symposium overview
Patricia Tzortzopoulos, Nottingham Trent University, and Don Ward, CIB
Web summary Recaps the main themes from Day 1, introduces CIB and explains how Day 2 moved from evidence and interdisciplinary insights to research ideas and potential collaborative activity.
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Evidence confirmation and CIB strategy baseline
Don Ward, CIB, and Samira Awwal, Liverpool John Moores University
Summary Provides the evidence statements, prioritisation criteria and facilitation framework used to identify issues for collaborative research and CIB-supported action.
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TG128 Lean Construction
Saeed Talebi, Birmingham City University
Summary Introduces the aims, membership and proposed three-year programme of CIB Task Group 128, including regional workshops, webinars, publications and routes for international participation.