Industrializing the Residential Construction Site
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Despite dramatic increases in housing production and homeownership in recent years, the homebuilding industry still lags behind others in widespread technological innovation and adoption. Other manufacturing industries have adopted broad organizational strategies to reduce production costs and to improve productivity and product quality. The homebuilding industry needs a directed change in its housing delivery system to reap similar benefits and to share those benefits with the homeowner. Industrializing the Residential Construction Site, released by HUD's Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R), examines the means and methods available for integrating and industrializing the housing construction site and the housing industry. It describes the history of and possibilities for industrialization in the industry and includes strategies for all scales of builders: small volume, medium volume, high volume, and production builders.
