Analyzing the Impact of Challenges in Prefabricated Building Construction Supply Chains
by Rishabh Rastogi, Sushil Kumar Solanki * 
, Virendra Kumar Paul
School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, 110002, India
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Journal of Engineering Research and Sciences, Volume 1, Issue 5, Page # 71-78, 2022; DOI: 10.55708/js0105008
Keywords: Supply Chain Challenges, Prefabricated Construction, Relative Impact, Relationship Matrix
Received: 08 February 2022, Revised: 09 April 2022, Accepted: 10 April 2022, Published Online: 12 May 2022
APA Style:
Rastogi, R., Solanki, S. K., & Paul, V. K. (2022). Analyzing the Impact of Challenges in Prefabricated Building Construction Supply Chains. Journal of Engineering Research and Sciences, 1(5), 71–82. https://doi.org/10.55708/js0105008
Chicago/Turabian Style
Rastogi, Rishabh, Sushil Kumar Solanki, and Virendra Kumar Paul. “Analyzing the Impact of Challenges in Prefabricated Building Construction Supply Chains.” Journal of Engineering Research and Sciences 1, no. 5 (May 1, 2022): 71–82. https://doi.org/10.55708/js0105008.
IEEE Style
R. Rastogi, S. K. Solanki, and V. K. Paul, “Analyzing the Impact of Challenges in Prefabricated Building Construction Supply Chains,” Journal of Engineering Research and Sciences, vol. 1, no. 5, pp. 71–82, May 2022, doi: 10.55708/js0105008.
Across various barriers pertaining to prefabricated building construction projects, a major barrier identified by the literature was integration of various components of prefabricated building project supply chain network, including the material and human resource supply chains. The literature suggests a need of exploring this barrier of supply chain integration into its various sub factors/challenges (termed as supply chain challenges) with the perspective of prefabricated building construction supply chains. This research tries to fill this gap by analyzing three cases of existing prefabricated building construction supply chains in Indian context with different configurations, geophysical profiles and project typologies. This study gives an understanding of the relationship among supply chain challenges, the variation in their relative impact on project time and cost (within the supply chain and across the different configurations of supply chains), and the underlying causes of these variations.
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