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SUMMARY:The Sustainability of Standardisation – how to mass manufacture 
 residential buildings? - Reka Mandoki\, Department of Engineering\, Univer
 sity of Cambridge
DTSTART:20201029T152000Z
DTEND:20201029T154000Z
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CONTACT:Dr Maria Marques de Carvalho
DESCRIPTION:Offsite\nmanufacturing can be part of the solution to\nachieve
  international sustainability goals and improve\nproductivity in the const
 ruction industry However\, mass\nproduction can lead to a monotonous built
  environment\nthat is alienating to people and therefore unsustainable\nPr
 evious research has examined the required complexity\nof the built environ
 ment through various experiments\, but\nin these\, respondents had to eval
 uate conditions that did\nnot affect them personally As a result\, complex
  attitudes\,\nlike nimbyism\, could have remained hidden\nTo\nfill this ga
 p in research\, two online surveys were\nconducted\, with over 200 partici
 pants\, focusing on the\nprejudices towards mass manufactured residential\
 nbuildings and the criteria of the diversity of homes The\nfirst experimen
 t examined how respondents would feel if\nthey had to see a similar home t
 o theirs\, by varying\nvisiting frequency and similarity The second survey
 \ninvestigated the real attitude of society towards these\nbuildings from 
 various angles with Likert Thurstone\nand semantic differential scales\nT\
 ntests showed that the prejudices were positive in\ngeneral\, except conce
 rning these buildings’ diversity\, and\nrespondents were negative only a
 bout having to see\nregularly a similar dwelling to theirs These results h
 ave\ndemonstrated that mass produced homes with custom\nfaçades can be so
 cially accepted\, so their production\ncould be sustainable\, and\, conseq
 uently\, useful in\novercoming housing crises
LOCATION:Zoom (email structures-admin@eng.cam.ac.uk for link)
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