https://www.architerials.com/2010/02/absolutely-tex-fabulous/ Materials matter. Sat, 29 Sep 2012 06:02:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.4 https://www.architerials.com/2010/02/absolutely-tex-fabulous/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:06:46 +0000 http://www.architerials.com/?p=279#comment-11 Doesn’t the difficulty of implementation come from the fact that most buildings are built by a combination of skilled and semi-skilled laborers with a handful of craftsmen? I was reading a short summary of LEAN production and it strikes me that the construction industry, of which we architects are just a small part, has to be one of, if not the most, segmented industries. LEAN concepts can’t be implemented when everybody is chief of their own little canoe. Likewise, I suspect these fabrication methods will meet with a great deal of resistance in the field until someone really starts thinking through a fully integrated delivery system for buildings.

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