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Challenged by the recent economic crisis, the building and construction industry is currently seeking new orientation and strategies. Here mass customisation is uncovered as a key strategy in helping to meet this challenge. The term mass customisation denotes an offering that meets the demands of each individual customer, whilst still being produced with mass production efficiency. Today mass customisation is emerging from a pilot stage into a scalable and sustainable strategy...

The first dedicated publication of its kind, this book provides a forum for the concept within an applied and highly innovative context. The book includes contributions from some of the most prominent thinkers and practitioners in the field from across the world, including Kasper S. Vibaek, Steve Kendall, Martin Bechthold, Mitchell M. Tseng, and Masa Noguchi. Bringing together this panel of experts who have carried out research both in academia and practice, this book provides an overview of state-of-the-art practice related to the concept of customisation and personalisation within the built environment.

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• List of illustrations(p. viii)
• List of contributors(p. xii)
• Foreword(p. xviii)
• List of abbreviations(p. xxii)
• Introduction
• 1 Mass customisation in the built environment, architecture and construction: an introduction(p. 3)
• Part I Principles of Mass Customisation(p. 15)
• 2 Three capabilities that make mass customisation work(p. 17)
• 3 Advancements of mass customisation in service and manufacturing industries: lessons for the built environment(p. 31)
• 4 The next wave in housing personalisation: customised residential fit-out(p. 42)
• 5 Spatial mass customisation: mass-customisable urban spaces and spatial entities(p. 53)
• Part II Enabling Technologies, Designs, and Business Models(p. 65)
• 6 Conceptualising the use of system products and system deliveries in the building industry(p. 67)
• 7 Product and process approaches(p. 78)
• 8 Customisable architectural systems - emerging types of integrated product deliveries in the building industry(p. 93)
• 9 Design and construction of three-dimensional lightweight timber grid structures explored through a mass-customised approach(p. 105)
• 10 Robot oriented construction management(p. 114)
• 11 Economic analysis of customised apartments(p. 127)
• Part III Practical Applications, Prototypes, and Experiences(p. 139)
• 12 Emerging trends and concepts of mass customisation in Taiwan's housing industry(p. 141)
• 13 Automation, robotics, services: evolution of large-scale mass customisation in the Japanese building industry(p. 154)
• 14 Commercialisation principles for low-carbon mass customised housing delivery in Japan(p. 164)
• 15 Mass customised structures for relief: physical production with digital fabrication(p. 174)
• 16 Two case studies of mass customisation and digital fabrication in building industry(p. 184)
• Part IV Future Topics, New Potentials, and Emerging Challenges(p. 195)
• 17 Stylemachine - case study: mass tailoring the housing block apartments on the internet(p. 197)
• 18 Enabling mass customisation in construction û making the long tail work(p. 208)
• 19 The application of game theory to customisation strategies in the construction industry(p. 219)
• 20 A shift in the order of use - 'user informed objects'(p. 230)
• Index(p. 241)

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Poorang A.E. Piroozfar is a Senior Lecturer in Architectural Technology and Co-director of BEACON (Advanced Technologies in the Built Environment, Architecture CONstruction) at the School of Environment and Technology, University of Brighton, UK.
Frank T. Piller is a Professor of Management and Director of the Technology Innovation Management Group of RWTH Aachen University, Germany. He is also a Faculty Member of the MIT Smart Customization Group at the MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.