The TAPPI principles are a set of 10 principles which aim to ensure technology services in housing and care settings are implemented effectively to improve the lives of older people. The principles indicate that such technology services should be adaptable, co-produced, cost-effective, choice-led...
Pre-Manufactured Value: A critical examination of PMV as a performance evaluation metric for the adoption and use of modern methods of construction (roundtable)
Our roundtable discussion on 27 April 2022 provided an opportunity for MMC industry professionals to explore the role of PMV as a performance evaluation metric. Mark Farmer, the UK Government’s Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) Champion for Housing and founding director and CEO of Cast...
Pre-Manufactured Value: a performance evaluation metric for the adoption and use of MMC
Drs Reyhaneh Shojaei, Kwadwo Oti-Sarpong and Zakaria Dakhli's presentation to an online audience on 29 April 2022 examined the use of PMV as a performance evaluation metric for the adoption and use of modern methods of construction. Chaired by Mark Farmer, the session explored the value and...
Final Report: Analysing the social context to transforming construction through digital innovation and offsite construction
Our final report for the project summarises the key contributions from the research project Analysing the social context to transforming construction through digital innovation and offsite construction. As well as a summary of the project findings, the report provides a precis of the...
Enablers for the adoption and use of BIM in main contractor companies in the UK
The journal Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management has published a paper authored by Drs Reyhaneh Shojaei, Kwadwo Oti-Sarpong and Gemma Burgess. The paper draws on data gathered from a series of interviews with professionals in strategic and management roles with construction...
Offsite manufacturing research: A systematic review of methodologies used
A paper published in the journal Construction Management and Economics explores the research methodologies reported in OSM literature. The authors identify key relationships between different methodological approaches which in turn reveal a growing hybridisation of research designs, data sources...
Industry guidance: Successful adoption and use of BIM and OSM
This guidance document by Rey Shojaei and Kwadwo Oti-Sarpong describes six key factors that will help construction firms to transform their project delivery through the adoption and use of BIM and OSM. Their research has shown that construction firms that have successfully adopted and are using BIM...
How countries achieve greater use of offsite manufacturing to build new housing: identifying typologies through institutional theory
This paper, co-authored by CCHPR researchers and researchers from the Cambridge Service Alliance at the University of Cambridge, looks at the complexities of the international construction sector and seeks to apply institutional theory to analyse the factors driving greater use of OSM to build...
Exploring ways to tackle the challenges of the need for skills and training in the implementation of Building Information Modelling: a case study of two leading UK construction companies
Dr Reyhaneh Shojaei's presentation was given to an international audience on 19 November 2020.
CamFest 2021: Tackling the housing crisis by transforming construction
How can transforming the construction industry help us tackle the housing crisis? Hear what the experts have to say in our short video , livestreamed as part of the Cambridge Festival on 31 March 2021.
Tackling the housing crisis through digital technologies and OSM
Our policy paper for the Bennett Institute of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge forms part of the series 'An Industrial Strategy for Tomorrow'. Industrial Strategy for Tomorrow: Tackling the housing crisis.pdf Industrial Strategy for Tomorrow: Tackling the housing crisis.pdf
State of the nation: sector report (Digital Innovation)
Dr Reyhaneh Shojaei's report sets out the current state of the UK construction industry in relation to the socio-economic inhibitors to the uptake of digital innovation.
Dr Rey Shojaei's blog for the Centre for Digital Built Britain explains the thinking behind her research into the socio-economic inhibitors to the take up of digital innovation in construction.
How could better use of data and digital technologies improve the planning system?
Dr Rey Shojaei presented at the RTPI South West's online seminar 'How can digital technologies be used to promote positive planning?' on October 1, 2020.
