TY - GEN
T1 - ADVANCING OFFSITE CONSTRUCTION PRACTICES
T2 - 41st Annual Conference on Association of Researchers in Construction Management, ARCOM 2025
AU - O'Neill, Aaron D.
AU - Spillane, John P.
AU - Curran, Michael R.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Association of Researchers in Construction Management, ARCOM 2025 - Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference.
PY - 2025
Y1 - 2025
N2 - The Offsite Construction (OSC) industry has positioned itself as a solution to address global housing issues, including Irelands current social housing crisis, through reduced time, cost, and waste, while promoting sustainability. This research investigates potential challenges associated with adopting OSC, which may address Irelands social housing crisis. A systematic literature review (SLR) is conducted using a structured Boolean search across academic journals in Scopus, published between the years 2005 and 2025. The review synthesized global insights into five themes: economic constraints, regulatory barriers, industry limitations, digital technology barriers and cultural resistance, providing a structured framework, offering a holistic understanding of challenges specific to the Irish construction context. Challenges identified include end-user scepticism regarding OSC quality and cost-effectiveness, cultural resistance to new methods, and the absence of a standardised evaluation tools, regulatory fragmentation, and supply chain inefficiencies. This research offers policymakers, industry practitioners and end-users' valuable guidance to proactively address these barriers. The contribution is to identify the challenges associated with implemented OSC to the social housing crisis in Ireland.
AB - The Offsite Construction (OSC) industry has positioned itself as a solution to address global housing issues, including Irelands current social housing crisis, through reduced time, cost, and waste, while promoting sustainability. This research investigates potential challenges associated with adopting OSC, which may address Irelands social housing crisis. A systematic literature review (SLR) is conducted using a structured Boolean search across academic journals in Scopus, published between the years 2005 and 2025. The review synthesized global insights into five themes: economic constraints, regulatory barriers, industry limitations, digital technology barriers and cultural resistance, providing a structured framework, offering a holistic understanding of challenges specific to the Irish construction context. Challenges identified include end-user scepticism regarding OSC quality and cost-effectiveness, cultural resistance to new methods, and the absence of a standardised evaluation tools, regulatory fragmentation, and supply chain inefficiencies. This research offers policymakers, industry practitioners and end-users' valuable guidance to proactively address these barriers. The contribution is to identify the challenges associated with implemented OSC to the social housing crisis in Ireland.
KW - Affordable housing
KW - housing for all
KW - modular construction
KW - social housing
KW - sustainability
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105021936098
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:105021936098
T3 - Association of Researchers in Construction Management, ARCOM 2025 - Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference
SP - 567
EP - 576
BT - Association of Researchers in Construction Management, ARCOM 2025 - Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference
A2 - Thomson, Craig
A2 - Neilson, Christopher J
PB - Association of Researchers in Construction Management
Y2 - 1 September 2025 through 3 September 2025
ER -