TOPIC FOR DISSERTATION- PREFABRICATION , FUTURE

OR FAILURE IN INDIA:

BRIEFING
The assembly of buildings or their components at a location other than the building site. The method
controls construction costs by economizing on time, wages, and materials. Prefabricated units may
include doors, stairs, window walls, wall panels, floor panels, roof trusses, room-sized components,
and even entire buildings.

Current uses
• prefabricated concrete and prefabricated steel sections in structures where a particular part or
form is repeated many times.
• used in the construction of apartment blocks, and housing developments with repeated
housing units.
• Detached houses, cottages, log cabin, saunas, etc. are also sold with prefabricated elements.
• commonly used structures such as concrete pylons are in most cases prefabricated.

A house being built with prefabricated concrete panels.

SOME Prefabricated Structure Companies in India

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2 - Albdeeoo interiors - Hapur

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 3 - ASS Engineers India Pvt Ltd - Varanasi

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4 - Sprech Tenso Structures Private Limited - Vadodara

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5 - Speed-4 Prefab Solutions Pvt.Ltd - Mumbai

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6 - LK Structural And Roofing Solutions - Madurai East

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7 - Cold Steels Building Systems - Pushprajgarh

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8 - Supertech India Pvt. Ltd - South Delhi

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9 - Supertech India Pvt. Ltd - South Delhi

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10 - Pressmach Infrastructure Pvt Ltd - Chennai

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11 - New Generation Cabins and Homes - Indore

Advantages

• Mitigating the labor shortage

• Cost-effectiveness

• Time savings

• Quality control

• Lower environmental impact

• Better safety and security

Disadvantages
 • Transportation costs may be higher for voluminous prefabricated sections (especially
sections so big that they constitute oversize loads requiring special signage, escort
vehicles, and temporary road closures) than for their constituent materials, which can
often be packed more densely and are more likely to fit onto standard-sized vehicles.
• Large prefabricated sections may require heavy-duty cranes and precision measurement
and handling to place in position.

Trends Impacting Prefabrication

The first is BIM, or building information modeling. This allows designers to visualize the whole
lifecycle of a building, from groundbreaking to daily use. Prefabrication further enables designers,
architects and buildings to understand the intent and use of any structure.

Lean construction also plays nice with prefab. With the goal of reducing time, materials and labor
through innovative technologies and strong communication between stakeholders and teams, lean
construction is paving the way toward a greener, more productive future.

Confluence of Manufacturing and Construction

Most of the delay in construction happens at Stage – 1 due to faulty design. 3D Printing and designing
everything on the cloud takes care of that problem with most of the iteration happening on the cloud
itself. Big data and cloud computing are expected to have an immense impact on the design and
management of construction projects.

The next decade belongs to prefabrication with the Indian construction sector expected to expand to a
size of $1 trillion and contribute over 15 per cent to the overall GDP. The government’s ambitious
project of building 20 million affordable houses and 98 smart cities by 2022 will see the construction
and manufacturing industries confluence further to create an ecosystem for increased innovation and
technology adoption. Thus, prefabrication will be a key enabler in mission “Digital India” and play a
vital role in all infrastructural development.

Market Overview
The Prefabricated Building Market in India is expected to grow at a CAGR of approximately 8.5%
during the forecast period mainly driven nations’ initiatives like “Digital India”, “Smart Cities” etc. The
next decade belongs to prefabrication with the Indian construction sector expected to expand to a size
of USD 1 trillion and contribute over 15% to the overall GDP.

The concept of prefabrication is gaining prominence in the Indian construction market. The entry of
prefabricated homes in India has paved the way to innovative and technologically advanced
construction and design methods for all kinds of construction, such as high rises, low rises, villas, and
mass townships.

India is comparatively backward and slow in incorporating prefab constructions into the real estate
market. According to an industrial source, India has only around 1-2% of prefabricated buildings, out
of its more than USD 100 billion real estate market. One of the main reasons for low penetration of
prefabrication solutions in India is a mindset blockade in India, with most developers averse to investing
in modular methods of construction and hesitant to incorporate prefabrication in their new and ongoing
projects.

There is a big opportunity for prefab companies in India and hundreds or thousands of plants are
expected to be required in the future. Over the next few years, India would feature among the fastest-
growing countries in terms of construction output, making the technology intervention a key
component. India is expected to become the third largest construction market in the world by 2025.

The construction sector in the country is expected to expand to a size of USD 1 trillion, over the next
decade, and contribute over 15% to GDP. Given the high anticipated growth of the Indian construction
industry, during the forecast period, the prefabricated structures are expected to gain popularity. Slated
to have the world’s third largest construction industry by 2025, India is witnessing a high uptake of
modular techniques with its construction sector slowly transforming and behaving more like the
business of manufacturing.

The government is taking major steps to strengthen the infrastructure for the ever-growing population.
In a country which is already congested with its high population, there is a need to build mass housing
to make homes for 900 million more people by 2050. In the top seven cities alone, the demand is
estimated to increase by 32% year-on-year as of 2019.