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Design For Manufacturing And Assembly In Construction

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The construction industry is underperforming. According to McKinsey & Company, " … construction has seen a meager productivity growth of 1% annually for the past two decades."

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Joseph A. Cleves, Jr.
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The construction industry is underperforming. According to McKinsey & Company, " .  construction has seen a meager productivity growth of 1% annually for the past two decades." During those same decades, the manufacturing industry has drastically reduced project time and cost. This is partly through a process called Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DfMA). The DfMA methodology is used in the early stages of design to evaluate and improve production and assembly. Like manufacturing, construction consists of many working parts. The use of DfMA in the construction field is an emerging trend. Employed in the UK as well as Singapore, DfMA can help reduce some of those working parts, thereby increasing the productivity and value of commercial projects.

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