Print Email Facebook Twitter Challenges of prefabricated housing in China Title Challenges of prefabricated housing in China: Supply chain, Stakeholders, and Transaction costs Author Wu, H. (TU Delft Housing Quality and Process Innovation) Contributor Visscher, H.J. (promotor) Straub, A. (promotor) Qian, QK (copromotor) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Date 2021-09-22 Abstract Recently, the implementation of prefabricated housing (PH) has become prevalent in China to achieve sustainability while ensuring green construction, innovative products, and higher quality. However, numerous challenges arise, such as the overrun costs, inexperienced workers, and the inefficient management process. High transaction costs (TCs) occur in the PH project supply chain since additional efforts are consumed for overcoming these challenges. This study aims to seek insights into TCs of PH and investigate strategies for minimizing the TCs thus smooth the development process of PH projects. Three key elements have been addressed throughout the thesis: supply chain, stakeholders, and transaction costs. Four-step research is employed to uncover the TCs in the PH supply chain, collect the stakeholders’ perceptions, investigates the causes of TCs, and explore decisions for reducing TCs. This thesis identifies three types of TCs in Chinese PH projects by their nature: due diligence costs, negotiation costs, monitoring and enforcement costs. Private stakeholders in China’s PH industry put more of their attention on TCs related to the specificity of prefabrication. The simple and joint strategies are provided for reducing their benefits lost from the unexpected TCs. Additionally, the value of the governmental TCs has been revealed for reducing the TCs of PH, which inspires and supports the policymakers to develop a healthy policy environment. Subject prefabricated housingTransaction costsStakeholders' perceptionsSupply chain To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:64a8aef7-91ad-420a-8c72-2766afe5c276 DOI https://doi.org/10.7480/abe.2021.17 Publisher A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment ISBN 978-94-6366-462-2 Embargo date 2023-09-18 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type doctoral thesis Rights © 2021 H. Wu Files PDF Doctoral_thesis_Hongjuan_WU.pdf 15.17 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:64a8aef7-91ad-420a-8c72-2766afe5c276/datastream/OBJ/view