Designing and Application of Prefabricated Structures in Building Construction Works

Abstract

Prefabricated structure; also popularly called Prefab or Precast, is an old concept that originated in the UK way back in 1837. Innovative engineering designing and the wide-ranging applications of the prefabricated structure has revolutionarised the realty industries at large world over, Among others, two broad areas using wide-ranging variants of prefab in the construction woks are building and bridges. Prefabricated construction is a new technique and is desirable for large-scale housing programmes. The paper discusses at length the various designing and application aspects of prefabricated structures in building construction work; including in the earthquake-prone areas. The scope of blending prefabricated structure with modular structure in an integrated manner has also been discussed in the paper